"While providing the even-poorer town and residents of Pajaro with an equal boost in tax income. Is not their need greater?"

Excellent, if we play the various municipalities off against each other, they will fight over ever shrinking business...

"Walmart also employs far more people, instead of only a few. This should bring a net reduction in social service dependence, which is a benefit to those who remain dependent to any degree."

Do they? Instead of there being a myriad of locally owned and operated businesses there is instead a single business with undue control... Watch as the employees try to unionize and Walmart simply shuts the store! Watch as Walmart tells its employees how to get on welfare because they pay them a pittance!

I have no problem with China - I merely mentioned that because I find it amusing considering how pro American Walmart claims to be - just like Ford claiming the same thing, it's somewhat shallow - it's the dishonesty that I don't like.

And no, I don't have a problem with Costco - they actually treat their employees as though they were human, a novel concept.