traingang

Holy shit, his liberalism and euro-fawning is egregious here.

He praises Luxembourg for having free transit across the country RIGHT AFTER he mentions Walmart (which is far from alone there) using it as a tax haven. And earlier he talked about the income of Walmart's tax lawyers being dependent on screwing over communities elsewhere. But wow, free transit

Also Luxembourg has the highest car ownership rate in Europe and half of the people who work in the country live outside it because it's too expensive.

Walmart losing out in Germany to "local retailers like Aldi and Lidl" and because countries in Europe have "strong unions"

And of course there's the incessant praise of small businesses and "mom and pop stores" like they are somehow fundamentally different (almost every big chain in Europe began as one guy with one store). His aforementioned description of chains like Aldi and Lidl as "local" in comparison to fucking Walmart might as well read: "I don't want to lick the boot of a FOREIGN capitalist". Especially when he mentions 60 percent of Walmart stuff being made in China when talking about "money leaving the community", as if that percentage doesn't hold true for almost anything.

Liberal idealism that you can just contain their size with regulations.

He's had his issues before but now I actually dislike him, the glazing in Europe has gone too far, and I live in the country he praises the most.