Wal-Mart Supports Obamacare

And the guys at Say Anything probably know why:

Believe you me, Wal-Mart isn’t doing this out of concern for the proverbial poor, down-trodden masses. Wal-Mart is doing this because a government mandate for business-provided health care will kill their smaller, more-regional competition.

Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, announced Tuesday that it would support a mandate on businesses to help expand health care coverage, an about-face from other business interests that have strongly opposed any such requirement.

It’s amazing to me how many liberals decry big corporations like Wal-Mart and talk about how they’re “running the little guy out of business” without realizing that liberal, big-government policies contribute greatly to the growth of big business.

And not in an economically healthy way.

Corporations like Wal-Mart support big government regulation like health insurance mandates and cap and trade and the minimum wage because they know that while they can shoulder the burden of those additional regulations and taxes, their smaller competition cannot. In fact, a trend develops once a government begins regulating businesses within an economy more and more. The more tax and regulatory burdens businesses must shoulder the larger businesses must become in order to survive.

Given the hatred that the left routinely shows Wal-Mart because of their non-union workforce, do you think they'll finally find some love in their heart for the giant retailer?

Sure...when it's convenient.