Chicago To Pass Bill of Attainder Against Wal-Mart

Chicago is getting ready to pass a Bill of Attainder against Wal-Mart.The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

With a nudge from organized labor, 33 aldermen have signed on to a groundbreaking ordinance that would make Chicago the nation's first major city to establish a wage and benefit standard for "big box" retailers.

On Thursday, they got an earful from the other side: business leaders and an impoverished and retail-starved West Side community that's about to become home to Chicago's first and only Wal-Mart.

They argued that the minimum wage standard is the exclusive purview of the General Assembly, and that making demands that apply only to the largest retailers would violate the constitutional guarantee to equal protection.

They further contended that nowhere in the United States is there a living wage ordinance that applies exclusively to retailing giants, and that passing one here would put Chicago at a competitive disadvantage.

Unions,the Mob,and the Democratic Party in Chicago: where one begins and the other ends it's hard to tell.What isn't hard to tell is why Chicago is losing population.I guess Chicago Democrats want poor people to pay higher prices.