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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: CMAC51

“A study a few years back showed that Wal-Mart had done more toward alleviating world poverty”


World poverty isn’t the issue, American poverty is.


41 posted on 01/06/2014 7:12:22 AM PST by steelhead_trout (MYOB)
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To: steelhead_trout

Whoever accused you of being a conservative was lying their ass off!!!!

Go join your occupy wall street commune and leave FR to conservatives….


42 posted on 01/06/2014 7:12:41 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: steelhead_trout
A lot of ASSumptions to come up with $900K...

However I find it remarkable that politicians develop social welfare programs then complain when the programs are used. Is it Walmart's fault that workers may qualify for public assistance? Just because the Walton sit on billions that puts them under no obligation to pay workers what the market dictates.

43 posted on 01/06/2014 7:13:03 AM PST by 11th Commandment (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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To: redgolum
This article is correct. Walmart pays so low that the state subsidizes most of the wages and benefits to its employees.

We need to unionize them, then.

And when their prices skyrocket and the foodstamps no longer cover all the lobster and bourbon they've been covering, then what? Increase SNAP benefits?

44 posted on 01/06/2014 7:13:28 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: steelhead_trout

You just putted yourself, newbie...IBTZ


45 posted on 01/06/2014 7:14:54 AM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: steelhead_trout
You do know that labor is a market, right? Like commodities, iPhones, real estate, etc.

5.56mm

46 posted on 01/06/2014 7:15:04 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: steelhead_trout

Many WalMart employees rely on the taxpayers to make up for their lack of personal drive and financial planning.


47 posted on 01/06/2014 7:15:12 AM PST by yuleeyahoo (Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Sooth2222

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


Sure, and Republicans too. I know someone who interned for the late, but not great by any stretch, Arlen Specter. He used to have tantrums and throw things at his interns. But most interns are children from well-to-do families, Muffies and Buffies, who are there to make connections. Much different from your average Wally World blue shirt.


48 posted on 01/06/2014 7:15:26 AM PST by steelhead_trout (MYOB)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Steelhead is a noob liberal troll…..reading his comments in the forum, he is nothing but pure Occupy Wall street class envy personified….


49 posted on 01/06/2014 7:15:35 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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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!

Would you like it better if WalMart employees are completely on the dole, rather than just being on food stamps? At least they have a job and are working.

50 posted on 01/06/2014 7:16:30 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: lepton

Bullseye! You can take any prize off the top shelf. Good job.


51 posted on 01/06/2014 7:16:58 AM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: steelhead_trout

I’ve never seen any “press gangs” out rounding up people and forcing them into WM jobs.
So anybody who is oppressed there can head to some other “progressive” employer like Starbux or Costco.


52 posted on 01/06/2014 7:17:15 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: Kansas58
hey newbie, Dec 8 2012? Learn economics and get back to us! What is your name on DU?

Try again.

53 posted on 01/06/2014 7:17:29 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: steelhead_trout

Here’s the solution, then -

remove the dole.

Wages are supply and demand just like every other good and service.


54 posted on 01/06/2014 7:17:41 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: steelhead_trout
World poverty isn’t the issue, American poverty is.

yeah, the American poor…have two cars ,air conditioning, multiple tv's, multiple devices like iPhones and laptops, three digit sneakers, jewelry, food out the wazoo……etc….

55 posted on 01/06/2014 7:17:44 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: steelhead_trout

“Wal-Mart Relies On Taxpayers To Subsidize Low Wages “

Well then dont work there. Or go start a competing business that pays whatever you want.

Wal-Mart is just taking advantage of the same system these people are taking advantage of.


56 posted on 01/06/2014 7:18:15 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: steelhead_trout

You’ve been here for more than a year and you still don’t know what’s going on?


57 posted on 01/06/2014 7:18:23 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: steelhead_trout

Other than you, I never heard of a freeper thinking Elizabeth Warren was the voice of conservative economics. Odd.


58 posted on 01/06/2014 7:18:35 AM PST by nhwingut (This tagline is for lease)
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To: steelhead_trout

I see lots of people working at Walmart and applying for jobs there.

Last I heard, none of them were being forced to work there.

Don’t care for the wages? Take your ass somewhere the pay is so much better.


59 posted on 01/06/2014 7:18:41 AM PST by dforest
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To: M Kehoe

no, he clearly doesn’t know that…...


60 posted on 01/06/2014 7:19:03 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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