#Arkansas lawmakers pass a bill for near-total #abortion ban, incl rape cases. Activists: #Walmart hires over 2 million people in AK, & #TysonFoods hires ~130,000, Dillard's 40,000 people in AK. #Boycott Walmart, Tyson Foods, and Dillard's. https://apnews.com/article/us-news-arkansas-bills-legislation-389aca43e65033959d30eb8082d281d1
@resist1984 How much do you suppose those companies pay in taxes to the region? (I don’t have the answer, but I would suspect they are highly incentivized to keep their operations there.)
@resist1984 reminds me of when people and companies boycotted North Carolina over the bathroom bill a few years ago. So much revenue lost over the passage of such a discriminatory piece of legislation against trans people.
@resist1984 Gunning for a SCOTUS case from an article I glimpsed in passing (I'm trying hard not to get sucked into news crap).
When NC passed some asinine act or another a few years back, the NBA and a whole mess of companies pulled out. That did have positive results. Oh yeah, the "bathroom bill".
There was a partial repeal just over a year later per Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Facilities_Privacy_%26_Security_Act
i mean, what else can we do? You can't #boycott a government, so you have to boycott a region. And in doing so, less revenue in the region means less tax revenue in the region.