Wal-Mart Air Fleet Gets Taxpayer Support for Controllers
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U.S. taxpayers are increasingly picking up the tab for the control tower at an airport that’s home to Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s corporate fleet, at a time lawmakers say they want to ban perks for hometown interests.
Language inserted into a spending bill two years ago spared the world’s biggest company by revenue from losing taxpayer-funded controllers to guide its approximately 20 jets based in Rogers, Arkansas, near its Bentonville headquarters.