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Wal-Mart Relies On Taxpayers To Subsidize Low Wages
Business Insider ^ | June 1, 2013 | Emily Coyle

Posted on 01/06/2014 6:54:56 AM PST by steelhead_trout

Edited on 01/06/2014 6:58:56 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

According to The Huffington Post, Congressional Democrats released a study Thursday that demonstrated how Wal-Mart’s wages are so low that many of its workers must rely on food stamps and other government aid programs, costing taxpayers as much as $900,0000 at just one Wal-Mart Supercenter in Wisconsin.

The report, “The Low-Wage Drag on Our Economy,” was produced by Democrats with the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.


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To: steelhead_trout
Is any other low end retail or fast food different? The "mom & pop" stores that Wal-Mart supposedly kills (although the bigger victims were national stores like KMart or local discounters like Gold Circle and Rink's where I lived) weren't exactly giving $20/hour jobs to cashiers.

Wal-Mart didn't become the bad guy nationally until they crossed the line from the largely non-unionized discount merchandise stores to the unionized grocery business. That was when they became the focus of evil in America. Trace the complaints and you'll find the unions and unionized competitors behind them.

21 posted on 01/06/2014 7:05:38 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
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To: steelhead_trout

we are better off with Walmart than without!


22 posted on 01/06/2014 7:05:39 AM PST by Kansas58
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To: steelhead_trout

OK...I am imagining a world in which Walmart tells someone that they won’t be hired because they have too many children to support at a given wage level, and their IQ pretty much guarantees that they won’t be promoted to a higher position.

Liberal heads would explode!


23 posted on 01/06/2014 7:05:42 AM PST by JoeDetweiler
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To: steelhead_trout
Wally World keeps it's wages dirt cheap--while the Waltons are sitting on untold billions and billions of dollars

Is that you, Elizabeth Warren?
24 posted on 01/06/2014 7:05:58 AM PST by nhwingut (This tagline is for lease)
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To: steelhead_trout

This might be radical thinking but if they don’t like Walmart’s wages then take their limited skills someplace that will pay them more. Good luck with that.


25 posted on 01/06/2014 7:06:26 AM PST by bgill
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To: steelhead_trout

Makes me want to shop at Wal-Mart. What is the difference between them and every other company needing low wage workers? Does everybody at WM make minimum wage? More Marxism is the answer.

Pray America is Waking


26 posted on 01/06/2014 7:07:15 AM PST by bray ("The Republic of Texas 2022" is coming in Feb)
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To: bigdaddy45

“If there were no gov’t subsidies, then people obviously couldn’t get by on a Walmart salary. “


That hardly follows. SOME people couldn’t get by. Many could. The government pays subsidies to many who don’t need them in any sensible sense.


27 posted on 01/06/2014 7:08:07 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Alex Murphy; All

hey newbie, Dec 8 2012? Learn economics and get back to us! What is your name on DU?


28 posted on 01/06/2014 7:08:44 AM PST by Kansas58
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To: TomGuy

Every Walmart store lowers the cost of living for all of its customers. I’m guessing a ratio of 200 to 500 customers per Walmart employee.


29 posted on 01/06/2014 7:08:48 AM PST by BillM (.)
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To: steelhead_trout

I have to call BULLCRAP on this one. My brother in law works for Walmart and makes a damn fine living. An old friend from high school retired from Walmart afew years back as a millionaire.

Walmart pays minimum wages as starting salary but they advance good employees. Usually promoting from within.


30 posted on 01/06/2014 7:08:50 AM PST by Tupelo (I am feeling more like Philip Nolan every day)
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To: steelhead_trout

Are you sure you’re on the right website?


31 posted on 01/06/2014 7:09:19 AM PST by Cymbaline ("Allahu Akbar": Arabic for "Nothing To See Here" - Mark Steyn)
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To: steelhead_trout

Perhaps if gubmint did NOT provide any benefits then the workers would move on to wages that were capable of supporting their families, Walmart wouldn’t have any workers so if they wanted to stay in business would offer higher wages.

That troublesome freemarket thingy.


32 posted on 01/06/2014 7:09:27 AM PST by vanilla swirl (searching for something meaningful to say)
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To: steelhead_trout

IBTZ


33 posted on 01/06/2014 7:09:37 AM PST by John 3_19-21 (Life is way too short to suffer fools long.)
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To: steelhead_trout
This article is correct. Walmart pays so low that the state subsidizes most of the wages and benefits to its employees.
34 posted on 01/06/2014 7:09:40 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: steelhead_trout
If there weren't food stamps and welfare, people would have to earn a lot less to make ends meet.

Anything government does is inefficient and corrupt.

35 posted on 01/06/2014 7:10:18 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: lepton

“Welfare Can Make More Sense than Work”


Well, assuming Cato’s calculations are correct (alliteration alert!), considering that real wages *adjusted for for inflation* haven’t gone up all that much for most people for 1973, that’s not a big surprise. One thing Cato leaves out, and it’s a BIG thing, is that the old AFDC system of sucking the welfare teat for life has been long gone, since 1996 in fact. Now it’s TANF, and you get a 5 year lifetime limit. So it’s a much shorter ride on the gravy train now than it was back in the day.


36 posted on 01/06/2014 7:10:30 AM PST by steelhead_trout (MYOB)
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To: Kansas58

Sorry that was meant for the fish!


37 posted on 01/06/2014 7:10:51 AM PST by Kansas58
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To: steelhead_trout

What’s the big deal, according to this logic, Wal-Mart saves the taxpayers tens of millions by providing income to their employees, sale tax collected at their stores and taxes paid on company revenues.

A study a few years back showed that Wal-Mart had done more toward alleviating world poverty than all of the government programs from all of the governments worldwide. Wal-Mart provides jobs to million in the US in their stores and millions more around the globe making the products Wal-Mart sells.


38 posted on 01/06/2014 7:11:13 AM PST by CMAC51
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To: John 3_19-21

“IBTZ”


Huh? I thought we spoke English here, not Klingon.


39 posted on 01/06/2014 7:11:35 AM PST by steelhead_trout (MYOB)
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To: steelhead_trout
Wally World keeps it's wages dirt cheap--while the Waltons are sitting on untold billions and billions of dollars--and instructs its workers how to go on the dole! McDonalds does the same thing.

Don't the White House and Democrat caucus do the same thing? (With their unpaid interns.)

40 posted on 01/06/2014 7:11:51 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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