Wait, let me get a smoke.
Ahhh, ok, let’s ban Wal-Mart employees from smoking!
Priorities. It’s all about MEEEEE! How many kids does he have and can’t be bothered to buy some diapers for?
Well, if he smokes 2-3 packs a week, depending on the brand, he’s paying at least $15 a week in ciggies.
Man you have to have your priorities! Have you ever tried to smoke health insurance? Even with a charcoal fliter its all one can do to stand it for more than a couple drags!
My wife works for Walmart, asst. Manager, and our healthcare and dental insurance costs have been rising every year. It seems that when she gets a raise the healthcare/dental increase costs eat up the raise. I wonder how long before Walmart will continue to offer insurance?
My sister’s brother in law couldn’t afford baby formula but could get his cigs.
He’s 22 . Why pay for it now when he can wait.
How will he pay his Obamacare fine for not having insurance?
Good for him. Why should he be forced to buy something that it is unlikely he'll use. Healthy, 22-year old males don't go see doctors unless they get hurt. They don't go for checkups. They don't go if they got a case of the sniffles. I didn't see a doctor one single time throughout my late teens, 20s and early 30s. Not once.
Of course, healthcare and specifically Obamacare are dependent upon healthy, 20 and 30-something males paying for insurance they won't use.
Let him smoke. He's contributing significantly to other people's health care costs through the exorbitant taxes he's paying for cigarettes.
But then, when I was 22, a healthcare package was part of every job, I just never used it. If I had had to pay for it then, I probably would have done without it, too. Such it is when you're young.
I don’t care if he smokes.
But smokers should be paying several times the ‘standard’ health insurance rate simply based on the fact that smokers are not as healthy as non-smokers.
since the gummint doesn’t discriminate against other vices, shouldn’t we be paying for his cigs? /sarc
It’s his money! I see obese people riding carts at the grocery store too fat to walk, buying junk food with OUR money! Obesity is probably more costly that smokers because they have all kinds of problems due to weight...diabetis being just one.
Taxpayers will end up paying for his.
I expect almost all retail-restaurant operations will cut employment, hours etc to avoid ObamaCare provisions
He’s already paying for govt health insurance, right? Isn’t that what exhorbitant cigarette taxes are for?
Who decides whats a luxury and whats not?
The libertarian in me says if he places a higher marginal utility on his smoke let him.
Gotta blame him for sumthin so it might just as well be smoking since everybody else drinks and they would never consider ostracizing someone for that little indiscretion.......LOL!
Well if he is working in the right area of WalMart he should have access to cigarettes.
If he is working in payroll, he can ‘adjust’ his pay records.
Sure it is stealing - what do you call what the Government is doing to all of us?
BTW, noticing the price of cigs in the comments....I remember about 20 or 25 per pack with a couple of pennies in the side.
Then went in the Navy and they were .90 a carton and .10 a pack if they had to break open a carton....
Of course when making $75 per month that wasn’t all that cheap...unless overseas.
I wonder how much he spends on cigarettes each week. The article doesn’t say – but I’m guessing it’s more than $15.