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    Md. Senate Overrides Veto of Wal-Mart Bill

    ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Maryland has become the first state in the nation to require Wal-Mart to spend a certain amount on health care or pay the difference in taxes. More such laws may be coming.

    The Maryland measure requires Wal-Mart Stores Inc., based in Bentonville, Ark., to spend at least 8 percent of its payroll on employee health care or pay the difference to the state in taxes. The law enacted Thursday applies to all companies with more than 10,000 Maryland employees, but currently only Wal-Mart meets the employee threshold without paying 8 percent toward health care.

    Labor unions, who heavily pushed for the bill to pass, said they would pursue similar legislation in at least 30 other states.

    "The tide is turning because working people are not just fed up - they are ready to get active to set our country in a different direction, one state at a time," AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said in a statement.

    The decision is being closely watched by labor unions and legislatures around the country.

    "We expect that today's vote with generate important momentum in many other state legislatures," said Nu Wexler, a spokesman for Washington-based Wal-Mart Watch, which is funded by a union.

    The unions have said the states they will focus on include Colorado, Connecticut and Washington.

    Some Maryland Democrats had harsh words for Wal-Mart.

    "Don't dump your employees that you refuse to insure into our Medicaid system," said the bill's sponsor, Sen. Gloria Lawlah.


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    wow! is this a preview of things to come?
    People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable.

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    Re: Md. Senate Overrides Veto of Wal-Mart Bill

    Originally posted by steven
    ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Maryland has become the first state in the nation to require Wal-Mart to spend a certain amount on health care or pay the difference in taxes. "Don't dump your employees that you refuse to insure into our Medicaid system," said the bill's sponsor, Sen. Gloria Lawlah.


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    wow! is this a preview of things to come?
    I can promise you that nobody in Maryland is surprised with this idiocy.

    Maryland is a mirror of what's already wrong with NY.

    The state of Maryland- run by lawyers- has a tax on medical insurance premiums. The more you pay, the more they collect. Now...as if that weren't bad enough, the tax is to...defray malpractice insurance costs.

    Now...let me ask you this...who profits significantly- or maybe even primarily- from insurance lawsuits? That's right, the same bastards that run The People's Republic of Maryland.

    So you think it's a surprise that they can push socialist-crap like this onto businesses? Why wouldn't they? Find a company that everybody hates and flog them to death over stuff that people get upset about.

    Did you know that Maryland already has the most laws on the books of any state in the union?

    Look for Wal-Mart to start closing stores that cannot turn profits with this shallow law.

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