Originally Posted by L-Pink

How does a walmart pay 10's of millions in taxes? I hope you aren't using sales tax for that figure. If so that means you think the food or merchandise wouldn't have been sold at all if walmart didn't show up? No one would have bought food or clothes or toys if a walmart wasn't there. I really doubt that.

The only actual net increase in your communities taxes would be a small amount of property taxes if any. The sales taxes are just collected by taking existing sales from other merchants.

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