With over $12 billion in profits last year, Wal-Mart is the biggest and arguably most influential corporation in America. When Wal-Mart makes a move, governments pay attention and corporate competitors are quick to follow. When you follow the money, it is clear that Wal-Mart and the Walton Family spend millions every year pushing an overwhelmingly right wing agenda.
[Arkansas News writer] John Brummett gives U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln some benefit of the doubt on her advocacy of estate tax cuts. It’s really about the “small” farmers, she insists, and not the Walton billionaires. Given her farm background, she undoubtedly feels some kinship, but mostly to enduring folklore of the Delta crowd.
For several years Arkansas Business ran a list, based on several sources, of the wealthiest Arkansans. That practice ended in 2001, a casualty of the combination of two factors: the fall of the stock market and greater difficulty in gathering data.
A report from Susan Clark Muntean at UC San Diego examining corporate political action using Wal-Mart as a case study.
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