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companies like costco and you ought to discuss costco a little bit if you would
because that's an awful thing that they're doing
I mean they are taking advantage of their size and their power
not to compete through greater efficiency and lower cost as classical economics
would have it
but to get the governments to drive a competitor out of business who's right next door
by taking their competitors land so the competitor will no longer exist and
the wal-marts and the costcos
uh... and the walgreens and so forth they're doing things like this all over the
country according your book and they deny it what us involved in this why
you don't see our name in any of those statutes or anything like that
yeah that's exactly what they say costco said
in the ninety nine cents only store case well this is a matter between
the city
and ninety nine cents only yeah but you're the ones who threatened to move to
neighboring palmdale and take all the tax revenue with you if the city didn't
do it and in the so it's blackmail or extortion as opposed to uh...
armed robbery
yeah exactly that's exactly right and then uh... even in the court case which
slammed
slammed costco really slammed the city 'cause it was the
city in the lawsuit
they called it a naked transfer of property and the constitution does
not allow such a thing
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