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Socialism, often promoted as a way to combat poverty, tends to fan the flames of the fire it's supposedly aimed at putting out.

Socialism, often promoted as a way to combat poverty, tends to fan the flames of the fire it's supposedly aimed at putting out.

* Wal-Mart and its competitors have lately been eying low-income urban neighborhoods because they are underserved by retailers. A recent study by the Brookings Institution estimated that millions of low-income residents of cities pay excessively high prices for consumer goods in part because of a lack of competition. The report noted that in Chicago "higher priced, small grocery stores" are concentrated in the city's poorer neighborhoods—exactly the kind of place where big-box stores now want to open.

* Wal-Mart and its competitors have lately been eying low-income urban neighborhoods because they are underserved by retailers. A recent study by the Brookings Institution estimated that millions of low-income residents of cities pay excessively high prices for consumer goods in part because of a lack of competition. The report noted that in Chicago "higher priced, small grocery stores" are concentrated in the city's poorer neighborhoods—exactly the kind of place where big-box stores now want to open. [http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_wsj-acorn_squash.htm]

Opponents of the free market, which they label as "Capitalism" as if it were self-evident that only "Capitalists" benefit from it, generally propose schemes which hurt the very people they claim they are trying to help. They are so opposed to '''anyone''' making a profit from investment, that they will target businesses for destruction or elimination - even when those businesses provide higher quality goods and services to inner cities and small towns.

Opponents of the free market, which they label as "Capitalism" as if it were self-evident that only "Capitalists" benefit from it, generally propose schemes which hurt the very people they claim they are trying to help. They are so opposed to '''anyone''' making a profit from investment, that they will target businesses for destruction or elimination - even when those businesses provide higher quality goods and services to inner cities and small towns.