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"Walmart's employees receive $2.66 billion in government help every year, or about $420,000 per store. They are also the top recipients of Medicaid in numerous states. Why does this occur? Walmart fails to provide a livable wage and decent healthcare benefits, costing U.S. taxpayers an annual average of $1.02 billion in healthcare costs. This direct public subsidy is being given to offset the failures of an international corporate giant who shouldn’t be shifting part of its labor costs onto the American taxpayers."
You are having a hard time comprehending how capitalism works, maybe that is because you are living in SE Asia. The children of the Walton family don't have to work, their family members before them have made a fortune and the children are entitled to live off that fortune. In a communist country like you apparently prefer, the Walton Family would not have been able to amass that fortune, the government would have taken it away from them. When you get into junior high school, have one of your instructors explain all this to you so you can understand it, if that is possible.
Walmart would be better advised to provide free financial counseling to their employees so that they would learn to better handle the money they have.
20yrsinbranson
What is it about you that you can't accept the fact that many working people don't have an extra dime after their basic expenses are paid for? What, is Walmart going to teach them how to get their food at food banks, their clothing at thrift stores and how to deal with the landlord to reduce rent?
Lucky we don't live in a world of extremes. Are you an extremist? You must be because your statement is extreme to the max. I guess in your world if working people would like a decent wage they are COMMUNISTS. Very scary stuff there, those darn people wanting to be paid decently. .
No. I applaud working people who want a decent wage. And most of them make themselves valuable enough to get one.
There should be no government regulation of wages.
Here's a question I've been asking 100 times on another current thread.
Now, if wages are so low at places like Macdonald's and WallMart that workers there need food stamps, then isn't this one big problem?
why should the taxpayer foot the wage bill?
why should the companies be allowed to pay so low?
what is the purpose of this system?
how about just a decent wage but no food stamps, make coming off welfare pay, surely this is the right solution?
Everyone blame corporation because their "leaders" blame corporation. Last I check, half of earnings go to the government.
Want to help out the low income earning. EZ and here is how.
1) Eliminate payroll tax. That's 15.3%. I am sure employee would a 20% increase.
2) Eliminate corporate income tax. That's 35% just from the federal level, state is another 6 to 10%. Eliminate corporate income tax allow corporation low the price of their product. Therefore, you can buy more with your money.
3) Most important, eliminate government debt. Inflation is the biggest reason why the poor cannot survive. It is a tax on all money.
What is it about you that you can't accept the fact that many working people don't have an extra dime after their basic expenses are paid for? What, is Walmart going to teach them how to get their food at food banks, their clothing at thrift stores and how to deal with the landlord to reduce rent?
Because I have yet to see a person on food stamps or welfare or begging for food at a food bank that doesn't have dish or cable tv. That's why.
Some of you bleeding heart people need to venture into those poor neighborhoods.
Not all but a good number drive cars better than you have, wear logo clothing, have better phones than you do and are on food stamps.
What is it about you that you can't accept the fact that many working people don't have an extra dime after their basic expenses are paid for? What, is Walmart going to teach them how to get their food at food banks, their clothing at thrift stores and how to deal with the landlord to reduce rent?
And many of us grew up like that. We had to conserve, went without extras and there were no food stamps. Food was stretched, we got hand me down stuff, no Santa Fund, no charity at all. Everyone cannot be well off and it wasn't seen as a big problem that we didn't have as much as the neighbors or people in the next town. We were not taught class envy, thank goodness. At one time poor people could be happy because they didn't worry about what everyone else had.
Somehow our immigrant grandparents made it without help, didn't need to be "taught" to thrift shop, make budgets, deal with the landlord and they didn't even speak the language. They didn't suffer, they enjoyed life, their families and their freedom - even though some people had more, alot of people had more, their bosses weren't always nice, they still were happy.
My grandma worked full time in a factory AND cooked home meals AND made clothing on the old Singer and played the violin beautifully. I remember her well, she came here with nothing, had less than anyone working at Walmart now, she never complained and she had class. She would turn in her grave hearing all the whining over Walmart and people who get paid and get free stuff on top of it.
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Look at his profile.
