I don’t disagree with what you are saying. But what does it say about one of the more profitable companies in the US when it pays wages low enough that its employees are eligible for public assistance even when working full time? Are they not making their profits on the backs of taxpayers?
I’m not sure what the answer is. I don’t know that a full-time wage that is low enough to qualify for public assistance is something that we want for adults, though.
The situation with pay for the lower enlisted ranks is better than it used to be, but what does it say about the American people when their congressmen are clamoring for more money that the $174K they already make, yet the men & women who go off to war sometimes leave families behind who are at least partially subsisting on Food Stamps?
“Are they not making their profits on the backs of taxpayers?”
That statement is based on the wholesale swallowing of a boatload of socialist propaganda.
Number one, the slogan “on the backs of” implies that in some manner the evil rich big company is exploiting workers unfairly and gaining something evil (profits) in the process.
Those are both great communist worker party talking points, and both are B.S.
The second fallacy is that they, you or me is owed anything in this world by virtue of our existence.
The whole concept that I and other taxpayers should be robbed at gunpoint to subsidize others standard of living is another socialist talking point.
When you say “by the taxpayers” you actually mean by those of us stupid enough to work for a living.