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by Sheldon Richman

Walmart Unmasked

Posted July 02, 2009
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From the perceptive Megan McArdle at The Atlantic:

I find it hard to believe that none of the liberal commentators breathlessly celebrating Wal-Mart’s “capitulation” on national health care have even entertained the most parsimonious explanation: that Wal-Mart is in favor of this because it raises the barriers to entry in the retail market, and hammers Wal-Mart’s competition. Yet somehow, this appears nowhere in any of the analysis.

She wraps up: “All of which is to say, Bootleggers and Baptists should be required reading in all schools.  When you find strange bedfellows in politics, don’t look for a surprising outbreak of spontaneous virtue: looking [sic] for the hidden conspiracy.”More here.

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  1. Comment by Speedmaster on 2 July 2009:

    Indeed! I posted about this last night as well.
    Bootleggers and Baptists: Wal-Mart and Forced Coverage

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