This is one about a big box store that pushed out a few local stores, then locked it's doors one day. Only an act of the Department of Labor forced them to give the employees their final check. (It closed the day before their payday) A few months later another store that denied any association with the previous one moved in to the same spot and business as usual. IMHO, someone got out of paying taxes BIG TIME, but as the right wing demagoge Micheal Savage says "That's just one man's opinon"
It almost got published, but the editor feared a ruinous lawsuit.
He's really good at standing up for his beliefs, but with the right wing takeover you have to prioritze.
BTW-Any parasite corporation wants to sue me, be warned I know a number of lawyers
who'd LOVE to fish for money from you in terms of "Countersuits" and "Quality of
Life" and "Human rights violations" lawsuits. You won't get a dime and you might give
me a good cut of millions.
BTW- I was there to investigate the close. As a freelance cartoonist/journalist I try to be at as many scenes of local interst as possible be they new stores opening up or "Rotten.com" gory accidents. I literally DID see a man get arrested. He had bought a $3000 top of the line system (heh, I think a P300) and spent $500 on an 'extended warranty'. It DIED on him the very next day. He was mad that they just handed him out a pamphlet with a number to call on it that (from what I've heard) led him through a half hour of ballon help to finally say they weren't going to honor the warranty. Like I said it took the Department of Labor to give the employees thier final check, but the police arrived in MINUTES to arrest him.
I say, the state should have CONFISCATED the entire store's contents and then held a low price auction to distribute the merchandise.
By the time they got the actions overturned, there would be an empty building full of dust they'd still owe property taxes on.
But, sadly, things like that don't happen in real life to big business...
