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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. [http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_wsj-acorn_squash.htm] | + | * [[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 [[City|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. |
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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.
- 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. [1]
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.