Reply #109: Sorry, but it is against the letter and spirit of the Constitution

[MadHound]

"Public Use" is the key phrase, and nowhere do I see what public good can come from sticking up another WalMart. Like I said, most communities make sweetheart deals with WalMart, granting the store a tax holiday for years, and in some cases forever. Therefore, the increase in tax revenues goes out the window. Providing jobs? Yeah right. It has been shown time and again that everytime a new WalMart is built that for every job WalMart creates, 1.5 jobs in the surrounding community are lost. In addition, the jobs WalMart does create are substantially lower paying than the jobs lost in the surrounding community, in fact the pay is so much lower that the employees qualify for Medicaid and foodstamps. Gee, another burden shouldered by the taxpayer.

So let's see here, no tax revenue, net job loss, increased burden on the taxpayer, what exactly is the public good, much less the public use in this oft repeated scenario?