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So tell me, why am I subsidizing a company that made $15.7 BILLION in profit in 2011?
Why just Walmart? Why aren't you outraged about other low wage businesses also? Is it because progressives have put out the word to hate Walmart? Such sheeple....
Dont like it, dont support welfare, but you do, whining non stop about how we need more and more government handouts.
Exactly. Lefties shriek that we can't make the poor little children suffer, and we MUST keep welfare and food stamps and Medicaid, or those children will DIE.
As for the LIE being told that taxpayers "subsidize" employees, it's pretty typical that the Walmart haters, who pretend to be so intelligent, don't know the definition of that word:
SUBSIDIZE: Support (an organization or activity) financially.
When they can prove that taxpayer dollars went directly to Walmart, they can talk. Until then, they need to shut up with the lies. And until they also express outrage that taxpayers are subsidizing illegals, they can shut up with the hypocrisy.
So tell me, why am I subsidizing a company that made $15.7 BILLION in profit in 2011?
You are subsidizing wal-mart because that is the true effect of social welfare programs. This is a major reason why we need to eliminate most social welfare programs. How can we blame wal-mart for using the government system that was put in place?
Also, from the article you posted it had a nice little bit of information pertaining to the calculation of poverty.
"We're seeing a very slow recovery [nationally], with increases in poverty among workers due to more new jobs which are low-wage," University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Timothy Smeeding told the Associated Press. "As a whole, the safety net is holding many people up, while California is struggling more because it's relatively harder there to qualify for food stamps and other benefits."
The Golden State's jump between the supplemental and conventional measures was the largest swing of any state, and the Sacramento Bee attributes it to California's high cost of living.
what if walmart just shuts down all of their stores? then what, CA will have an even worse unemployment rate. Walmart should do just that, then all the shoppers can shop at more expensive stores. What a great plan.
Small business would fill in the void and profit. Those profits Wal-Mart (the corporation, not employees or community) was seeing would be split up amongst the Communities.
How does Wal Mart FORCE the taxpayers to subsidize the employees? I didnt realize Wal Mart was more powerful than the California legislatures who establish the rules.
It doesn't directly, but does through its corporate policy/philosophy.
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I wouldnt say Wal Marts issue is taxes, I'd say that the government has created a system which encourages Wal Mart to pay less. That isnt Wal Marts fault, thats governments.
It's both IMO. Corporations have to become more responsible. Otherwise all the profits go to the top and are not recirculated into the economy.
Our economy is strongest when consumers have spending power. When wages are low relative to prices, there's less consumer spending and the entire business community is affected.
Small business would fill in the void and profit. Those profits Wal-Mart (the corporation, not employees or community) was seeing would be split up amongst the Communities.
I don't like it. My 401k and IRA can't invest in small businesses.
I think Cali needs to step up and be the test case. Pass a law, demand businesses pay a wage that will keep all their employees off the government dole and lets see what happens.
I will gladly support such policy in Cali and if it works, everywhere else.
Wal-Mart has the profits to pay its employees more. Small businesses do not. They are not complaining about the pay rate per say, but the pay rate in comparison to their profit margins.
It's not like they don't have enough money. Hell, the HEIRS, have more wealth then the bottom 47% of the country combined!!
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