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So let me get this straight, you hate welfare, but you're ok with Walmart getting welfare from the government? You can bet that 99.9%-100% of the potential Walmart workers in DC would still be on public assistance just like the many many many Walmart workers across the country. Corporate welfare at its finest
99% of the people who might have had a job are probably now 100% on public assistance.
Now they are unemployed, uneducated and have NO chance of finding work.
I'd rather work for $8 an hour than be unemployed at $12 an hour.
That's in Wisconsin, a low cost of living state compared to D.C. You live in Texas, you have no idea just how expensive everything is up here. We can't survive on Texas wages up here. Well, you could, you just have to turn the heat off in the long, cold winters
It's a bluff. Walmart is successful in Canada with it's higher taxes, more regulations, and higher minimum wages. Plus Walmart typically pays more than minimum wage wage ..so their wage increase will be less than the gap between minimum wage and the living wage.
So let me get this straight, you hate welfare, but you're ok with Walmart getting welfare from the government? You can bet that 99.9%-100% of the potential Walmart workers in DC would still be on public assistance just like the many many many Walmart workers across the country. Corporate welfare at its finest
Walmart doesn't receive the welfare. Stupid women that have kids they can't afford get welfare and it doesn't matter where they work. WMT can fire all the people receiving welfare and those people will still be receiving welfare.
Somehow I don't see Walmart doing that, I hope DC does pass this bill, it will be a good move for the working class of the city.
Please explain, just how are the "working class" better off when they have to pay more for food or other household goods? And when even more of them are unemployed?
Walmart doesn't receive the welfare. Stupid women that have kids they can't afford get welfare and it doesn't matter where they work. WMT can fire all the people receiving welfare and those people will still be receiving welfare.
Yes it does. Don't play word semantics with me. When a company relies on so many low paid workers to make its obscene profits on the backs of the middle class, that is corporate welfare. Walmart does not pay out benefits to its part time employees, which are the majority of employees. Ergo, those employees are then eligible for SNAP and Medicaid, benefits that Walmart would have otherwise paid out of their own pockets but refuse to do so
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