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> If you have to hire armed security to keep your place of business and your customers safe, you're doing business in a dysfunctional country
Welp might as well just move the dollar general to mexico! Those poor people will have to travel there to buy things.
> You might as well not pay taxes then
That makes sense if you're a charity, but dollar general is a for-profit org -- and does make a profit.
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> If you have to hire armed security to keep your place of business and your customers safe, you're doing business in a dysfunctional country
Welp might as well just move the dollar general to mexico! Those poor people will have to travel there to buy things.
> You might as well not pay taxes then
That makes sense if you're a charity, but dollar general is a for-profit org -- and does make a profit.