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AttachmentG Wal-Mart also uses controversial methods to reduce the taxes it p Estate Investment Trust (REIT) where the corporation pays rent t 42 rent from its taxable income. It is estimated that Wal-Mart likely avoided paying $245 millio 43 in 2008 using this strategy nationwide. By its own admission, Wal-Mart likely owes billions in taxes. Wal-Marts entry into the New York City market may also negative displacing the better compensated employees of the existing reta relevant for the unionized workers of the grocery sector. A stud into the San Francisco market estimated that if Wal-Mart were to the grocery markets and replace thousands of union supermarket e 44 workers, the region would lose $300 to $576 million dollars in e Wal-Marts low paying jobs contribute to the decline of the Middl According to the 2009 Census Bureau's survey of income and pover Median household income is falling in the vast majority of U.S. single major U.S. city, representing a shocking decline of the m 45 also skyrocketed in recent years and it has become much harder t According to the Census Bureau, median household income declined 2009 and almost all U.S Cities. In New York City, median household declined 4.1% to $55,980. · In Detroit, median household income declined 10% to $48,535. · In Orlando, median household income dropped almost 10% to $46,85 · In Cleveland, median household income fell 8.5% to $45,395. · In Miami, median household income declined 8.2% to $45,946. · In Indianapolis, median household income dropped 7.1% to $50,140 · With an average annual pay of $20,774, significantly below the F 46,47 family of four, Wal-Marts workforce can largely be classified aWal-Marts 1.3 million employees being forced to accept poverty level wages Page27of95