“Why should Wal-Mart have to pay their employees a living wage when the American taxpayers will do it for them?”
You realize Wal mart is not alone in what they pay their people?
Why single Walmart out?
They pay as much or slightly more than any other similar operation and the opportunity to advance and make more is pretty easy.
Sears Target Penney’s Kmart all fast food chains etc etc etc etc
Wal-Mart is by far the biggest employer who regularly perpetuates the cycle of reliance on government hand-outs. The other companies are a drop in the bucket comparatively.
If Wal-Mart actually paid its share of corporate taxes, then you could argue that they pay for their employees to be on public assistance. But with corporate loopholes, offshore accounts, and other chicanery, these big companies are just leeches off of the American economy.
It’s time patriotism took a front seat and for companies to start making stuff in the USA and stop giving their employees 39 hours a week just so they don’t have to pay for any benefits, and let the social safety net take care of them (ie taxpayer funded food stamps and healthcare).
Sure, CEOs will only make maybe 1 million a year instead of 2, but isn’t it time to put America first? In WWII when people were growing Victory Gardens and skipped a meat meal one a week no one asked, ‘What’s in it for me?’
The USA is in a war for economic survival, and it’s time that big companies started pitching in.