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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

Walmart and McDonald’s aren’t supposed to be careers unless you move up the ladder.


61 posted on 01/06/2014 7:20:15 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: steelhead_trout

How many .gov & state employees are also taking subsidies from the taxpayer ?


62 posted on 01/06/2014 7:20:33 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Think strategy.

How many Walmart workers will vote to cut their lifeline?

The GOP is killing itself. But most don't seem to care.

63 posted on 01/06/2014 7:20:39 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: CaptainK

A voice of sanity in a sea of insanity.


64 posted on 01/06/2014 7:20:52 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: steelhead_trout

Obama waived a lot of the requirements from the reforms from 1996.


65 posted on 01/06/2014 7:21:06 AM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: steelhead_trout

Don’t care if it is Walmart Kmart Target McDonalds Burger King etc. Unless you are a Manager, Department Manager etc you will receive miniumum wage because it is a MINIMUM WAGE JOB! These are entry level jobs. Being a cashier is not meant to be a fulltime career living wage job. Bagging fries is not going to buy you a home. Grow up. You want more you have to be more..


66 posted on 01/06/2014 7:21:29 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2014 and the Crusades 2014?)
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To: steelhead_trout
Love your tagline...lol!

You're telling people to MYOB, yet you post a thread chastising Wal-Mart for low wages?

Where's your screed about restaurants, where waiters depend on tips for their living?

67 posted on 01/06/2014 7:21:36 AM PST by Night Hides Not (For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
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To: steelhead_trout

Idiotic premise. Its not the fault of WalMart that we give food stamps and benefits to people who work retail jobs that are largely dead end anyway.

My sister has worked there for 20 years and is buying a home for the second time. She took the initiative and took some business management courses and raised her value to the company.


68 posted on 01/06/2014 7:22:11 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: steelhead_trout

Which came first, the Wal Mart wage or the govt hand out?

Duh…….


69 posted on 01/06/2014 7:22:14 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: nhwingut

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


My conservatism is *SOCIAL*. Opposition to same-sex “marriage” and glorification of homosexuality as normal. Oppoistion to unrestrained immigration, legal or illegal, and H1B visas that take jobs away from native-born STEM grads (I hate the term STEM but I’ll use it here to save time). Understanding of how God shapes the fate of nations (he destroyed the USSR, and may lay the smack down on the West if we keep going down the wrong moral path). So before you all scream to get me off the forums, at least take this into consideration. Thanks.


70 posted on 01/06/2014 7:22:23 AM PST by steelhead_trout (MYOB)
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To: steelhead_trout

Do you get ALL your news from Democrat politicos? Are you a union fat-cat, or do you just parrot their talking points for them?


71 posted on 01/06/2014 7:22:51 AM PST by VRWCmember
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To: steelhead_trout

Freedom, capitalism, common sense and tyranny can seem like “Klingon-eze” to those who have drank the “It’s-rich-whitey’s-fault” koolaide.


72 posted on 01/06/2014 7:22:52 AM PST by John 3_19-21 (Life is way too short to suffer fools long.)
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To: safeasthebanks
I think you’re on the wrong website, pinko.

Today is January 6th. The start of the Dems campaign on inequality/economic fairness (i.e. communism) - to distract from Obozocare. So the trolls will be out in force.
73 posted on 01/06/2014 7:23:24 AM PST by nhwingut (This tagline is for lease)
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To: refreshed
The purpose of business is to make a profit. Not provide a living wage.

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They are not mutually exclusive.

They are when your labor pool is unskilled, and you are in competition with other places which also try to deliver rock-bottom prices on stuff. I notice none of these hit-pieces mention Target or the other similar stores.

People can start at WalMart, learn valuable job skills (you would be amazed at how many people need to learn that showing up for work, on time and sober, is a requirement for advancement), and then use that work experience to qualify for a higher-paying job elsewhere.

74 posted on 01/06/2014 7:23:29 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: steelhead_trout

debbie wasserman is a FReeper... who knew?


75 posted on 01/06/2014 7:23:42 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I want a politician to define ‘livable wage’ for me.

“Livable’ for who? a high school drop out,unmarried, with kids ? a high school graduate living with their parents?
a retiree with a paid-off house?


76 posted on 01/06/2014 7:23:44 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: nhwingut
Is that you, Elizabeth Warren?

Clearly, JR is getting lax on his vetting for new members! ;-)

77 posted on 01/06/2014 7:24:16 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: steelhead_trout
...members of OUR Walmart, a union-backed worker group, chose Black Friday to walk off the job and campaign for their rights.

Employees certainly have a RIGHT to ask for higher wages. They do NOT have a RIGHT to higher wages.

Wal-Mart has long been criticized for its pattern of offering wages that force its workers to take advantage of public-assistance programs.

No one is forced to take advantage of public-assistance programs, and government intervention is what suppresses the economy such that better jobs are hard to find. We have to discard the notion that the government can force prosperity upon society. Prosperity must come from growth, which requires successful competition.

The Chinese and Irish immigrants who worked for railroads in the late 19th century have long since moved on to better opportunities. The reason that Wal-Mart is able to pay these low wages is 12% or 15% systemic unemployment. If business was booming and employment wasn't regulated in a manner which penalizes the employer, businesses would be scrambling to find workers and the competition would give workers the leverage to obtain higher wages and benefits. IF unemployment was at 3%, rather than current levels.

But more government regulation will only exacerbate this downward spiral.

You cannot ethically force someone else to pay you more. Free market transactions are voluntary - requiring a willing buyer and a willing seller.

78 posted on 01/06/2014 7:24:16 AM PST by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: steelhead_trout

Well if Congressional Democrats say it, it must be true. /s


79 posted on 01/06/2014 7:24:24 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: JoeDetweiler

My cousin doesn’t have kids but is special needs and has been working for Wal-Mart now for decades. I doubt whether he has risen about greater. He’s a great guy, lives in a group home, and drives his own car (paid for). He’ll end up with a pension and I’m sure he has some government subsidies. Knowing his now deceased parents however, I’m pretty sure he has a trust from their estate that also supports him. Wal-Mart is his life and I’ll always defend Wal-Mart because of that.


80 posted on 01/06/2014 7:25:35 AM PST by Mercat
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