The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette has this story on how the City of Champaign has agreed to build a new road to connect up a to-be-built Wal-Mart Supercenter with the rest of the big box retail sprawl around the interstate.
The cost? Oh, $2.2 million.
The cost of a nice elementary school. Or 22 well-paid police officers.
Wal-Mart will kick in half a million (so nice of them), leaving the City of Champaign and the County of Champaign expected to pick up about 800 grand each.
Just so Wal-Mart can build another store to suck up more local money and send it to Arkansas.
That smells like bad public policy to me.
Yes, that's true. But how much acreage does this supercenter take up?
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