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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

They are able to work for $11/hr. because they get food stamps and rent subsidies from the government. The US taxpayer has been subsidizing the wages of Walmart employees since its inception, so that cheap Chinese coffee maker you bought at Walmart wasn’t really so cheap.


17 posted on 01/11/2018 6:33:31 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: txrefugee; ObozoMustGo2012
This from a "progressive" website but I recommend reading it anyway. Keep an open mind to learn all sides of the equation. There is good data, or may refutable data, here even if it is on a "red" site.

Walmart Prices Would Rise By Pennies If It Paid Workers More Than Poverty Wages

18 posted on 01/11/2018 6:41:12 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: txrefugee

Unreal, look at the revenue of this company, $121 BILLION in profits, almost half a trillion in net sales and they are paying employees less than what freakin’ illegals get? I live on the east side of Long Island in farm area, if you offered farm work to an illegal for 88 bucks a day BEFORE taxes which probably comes out to $60 a day they’d laugh in your face. Actually $100 bucks a day was what they were paid 15 years ago when I worked on a farm, now it’s probably $150. This Walmart is making money hand over fist from taxpayer funded employees!

https://amigobulls.com/stocks/WMT/income-statement/annual

Look at this “Walmart CEO Michael Duke’s $35 million salary”...WTF??

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/walmart-ceo-pay-hour-workers-year/story?id=11067470

Why are people taking this job?? The economy is through the roof, lowest black unemployment in history, record setting stock market.


24 posted on 01/11/2018 7:15:06 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The remoulade was a trifle tart, but the souflee for dessert more than made up for it.)
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