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Okay, if everyone learns a skill to move up and make more money, who is going to bus the tables, wash the dishes, change the hotel sheets or vacuum the car at the car wash? There's always a need for unskilled labor and there's no dishonor in doing that work. When wages are suppressed and they qualify for food stamps and EITC, it increases government spending and jacks up the poverty rates.
Raise the minimum wage to a living wage and the taxpayers will save billions because the working poor will no longer qualify for food stamps and EITC payments. The working poor will start paying taxes. It would help reduce government spending and the deficit.
No matter how many times or how many different ways you say or write this the people here don't get it.
This is exactly how the ruling class wants it. 18% of all food stamps are spent at Walmart. How much money did Walmart earn last year ? The year before ? The last ten years ?
If Walmart paid enough wages so their workers didn't need food stamps their sales would go down 18%. Kinda hard to make that up selling 2$ Chinese widgets.
No matter how many times or how many different ways you say or write this the people here don't get it.
This is exactly how the ruling class wants it. 18% of all food stamps are spent at Walmart. How much money did Walmart earn last year ? The year before ? The last ten years ?
If Walmart paid enough wages so their workers didn't need food stamps their sales would go down 18%. Kinda hard to make that up selling 2$ Chinese widgets.
Instead it trickles up to a few Walmart heirs.
It also employs 1.5 million Americans. In a few years, it will be far smaller in all likelihood due to Amazon, who will employ 10% of those fired by WM at the same basic wage level.
This is exactly how the ruling class wants it. 18% of all food stamps are spent at Walmart. How much money did Walmart earn last year ? The year before ? The last ten years ?
If Walmart paid enough wages so their workers didn't need food stamps their sales would go down 18%. Kinda hard to make that up selling 2$ Chinese widgets.
Your synopsis is ridiculous, it assumes all walmart employees receives food stamps and only walmart employees spend food stamps at their stores.
Maybe if the government didnt subsidize the employees through welfare, wal mart would have to pay higher wages to entice employees to work there..
You have no idea what you're talking about. There are only 5,000 people (0.0015%) in the USA with over 100M . You think 5,000 people should pay the way for 45 million people in so called "poverty"?
It sounds to me like you're the one who has "No idea what you're talking about."
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And your point is that somehow it's fair to steal from someone else because they have more.
Sorry I'm not some nutjob who thinks "Taxation is theft"
Theres only 74 million children in america under 18, so the math doesnt add up
Here's the breakdown of Medicaid expenditures. As you can see, children make up the majority. However, disabled cost the most, with elderly(nursing homes) being the 2nd most costly group, even though both these groups have the lowest number of enrollees.
19% of Medicaid's budget is spend on able bodied adults which might or might not be working or in school. Pregnant mothers and mothers of young children are included in that group. Forcing additional work rules might not impact the budget much at all, because the big budget expenditures are for disabled and elderly and they wouldn't be impacted by work/school rules. These groups cost the most because nursing homes can be $65k/year for Medicaid and because some disabled can require costly care, which Medicaid pays.
Medicaid Enrollment by Group
Children 43%
Adult 34%
Disabled 14%
Aged 9%
Percent of Medicaid Budget by Group
Children 19%
Adult 19%
Disabled 40%
Aged 21%
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