The 2.6 Billion Dollar Welfare Payment That The U.S. Government Gives To Wal-Mart

The Daily Coin ^ | 12/29/2014 | Michael Snyder

[AIL]

Very astute assessment. Wal-mart, Meijer, Food Lion, etc. get a lot of money from the government through food stamps. That is the real travesty not the wages they pay. Wholefoods even take bridgecards, but the folks who get them can't shop their since they would deplete their monthly budget for 1.5 week of groceries. When governmrnt makes our tax dollars available to businesses we lose big time.

[Reeses]

That 17 billion is GROSS profits, not net. Big difference.

Using their numbers, divide $17 billion by 1.2 million employees and they make $14 per employee, before taxes. The gougers! </s>

[Gaffer]

Yep....these people aren’t dreamers, they aren’t yearning for a better life, they aren’t yearning for ‘just a chance’. They are invading criminals.

They are stealing your childrens’ and your grand childrens’ futures. Make no mistake about that.

[Reeses]

Oops, actually $14,167.

[Gaffer]

The point of this drivel article wasn’t for you to actually think about the numbers and what they really mean, much less even pull out a calculator. What in the world were your thinking? You weren’t supposed to do that!

It was meant to tug at your bleeding heart and make you vote for a Democrat. Imagine that. The guy that wrote this probably hates you now. :0)

[Texas Eagle]

Should the federal government be spending billions of dollars to pump up Wal-Mart’s profits? I know that question sounds really bizarre, but unfortunately this is essentially what is happening. Because Wal-Mart does not pay them enough money, hundreds of thousands of Wal-Mart employees enroll in Medicaid, food stamps and other social welfare programs.

Typical Liberal claptrap. Not even worth the effort to explain. Some people just love to wallow in stupidity.

[Texas Eagle]

At this point, the U.S. middle class is well on the way to being destroyed.

Thanks to Liberalism.

[Texas Eagle]

100 million of us continue to visit Wal-Mart every single week, and we continue to fill up our shopping carts with cheap products that are made outside this country. We refuse to support American workers and American businesses

You idjit. Who do you think works in those Walmarts? Who do you think owns them?

[Texas Eagle]

But now as the U.S. energy boom goes bust, it might lead the way in job losses.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm assuming you are referring to the jobs in places like North Dakota where McDonald's employees start out at something like 15 dollars an hour. Your very own definition of a "Liveable" wage.

You just destroyed your entire argument. A "liveable" wage guarantees nothing.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Wal-Mart is a colossal money-making behemoth.***

That started as a Mom and Pop store on the west side of the square in Bentonville Arkansas.

Then Sam bought out some bankrupt Ben Franklin stores and started Walmart.

Now, if the man who owned the other Mom and Pop store on the North west end of the Bentonville Square had done the same wouldn’t everyone hate him now?

If Sam had placed his store in Siloam Springs, as he originally intended to do, would Bentonville still be nothing but a County Seat wide spot in the road? Would Siloam-Watts-Colcord-West Siloam now be the economic powerhouse of the Arkansas-Oklahoma area?

[Texas Eagle]

So why does it need 2.6 billion dollars of help from the U.S. government?

You're the man with the numbers, Michael. Why don't you tell the class how much Walmarts pay in corporate taxes, property taxes, Socialist Security taxes, Disability taxes, Workers Comp taxes, sales taxes, and dozens if not hundreds of other taxes every years.

[HomerBohn]

Make sure you direct those strong sentiments to the author of the article, pardner!

[kjam22]

I tend to agree with you....

[Texas Eagle]

Quick lesson on how FR works, Newbie. When a guy includes an italicized portion of an article before his sentiments, it's understood that said sentiments are directed at the author of the italicized words.

Welcome to FR, btw.

[upcountryhorseman]

Nobody forced these people to work at Wal-mart. If they don’t like the pay and benefits, they can work elsewhere.

[HomerBohn]

Instead of trying to force corporations to pay artificial wages why not pare back the easy access to the welfare state?

I haven't a clue as to what you're referring to 'old timer,' as the above is the italicized comment I made in reference to the article I posted.

Since you've been around since the Alamo you are no doubt aware that articles posted on websites such as Free Republic do NOT necessarily contain the views of the poster. This one, in particular, was posted so that others with functioning brains could see what the left regurgitates.

[dalereed]

Everyone make their own way in this world or quit consuming the oxygen!

[Texas Eagle]

I haven't a clue as to what you're referring to 'old timer,' as the above is the italicized comment I made in reference to the article I posted.

Now, don't go getting your diapers all wadded up. This may all be a simple misunderstanding. If you made the comments I italicized and commented on, then yes, you are the idjit I am referring to. If not, then you're not.

Are you saying the article you posted are your words? That is to say, did you not post any part of the article and the entire thing is your reply to the article?

Since you've been around since the Alamo

Actually, I've been around since The Bay of Pigs, but, no matter. Do continue.

you are no doubt aware that articles posted on websites such as Free Republic do NOT necessarily contain the views of the poster.

Correct, Baby New Year. I do it all the time to just to see the humorous replies it will generate.

This one, in particular, was posted so that others with functioning brains could see what the left regurgitates.

Hence, my strong sentiments.

Is your butt sufficiently powdered?

[HomerBohn]

Is your butt sufficiently powdered?

My 'butt' was powered in Korea in 1951.

How about you?

[VRW Conspirator]

Just about every food seller is on the dole and make no mistake their lobbyists are working hard to ensure food stamps aren’t cut back.

Bump. The big sellers have a double win with the welfare state. The gimmedats can live on low wages WHILE collecting govmint money. They turn around and buy from stores like Wal-Mart.