In reading the Walmart economic impact study from the homepage, I can’t help but see that the project would generate about $700,000 a year in tax revenue for the County.  That number is almost exactly the same as the budget shortfall for the school system.  We need to diversify our tax base or we will end up paying significantly higher property taxes over time.  Why should we send our tax dollars to Chesterfield to support their schools?

Thank goodness the BOS unanimously supports WalMart in Powhatan. When my daughter gets back from Afghanistan, maybe she can get a job there.

The WalMart opponents in Powhatan must have been very encouraged when Mr. There-will-be-no-WalMart-in-Powhatan Bustos was appointed to the Board of Supervisors.

Building a Walmart will deteriorate our community and destroy Powhatan’s scenic highways.  Every Walmart deteriorates communities and destroies scenic highways.

Perfect Examples
Route 10,
Hull Street Road,
Southpark,
Crater Road,
Bell Creek Road,
Blackstone,
Chattanooga Plaza,
Broad Street
Brook Road…

Have you been to these areas lately?  Need I mention more?  It’s less than 12 miles to a Walmart from Powhatan.  That is almost too close for me.  It’s about as close as Ukrops (soon to be Martin’s).  I moved to Powhatan to get away from all the hustle and bustle, I love it here the way it is, without a Walmart.

Rog…I’m with you. Bush presided over the greatest era of economic expansion our great country has ever seen and the economy was moving full steam ahead when he left office. A year of Obama and look where we’re at!