[redgolum]

The majority of people working at Walmart are on public assistance of some sort.

So quite frankly, I am paying for them even if I don’t show there.

[grania]

The Waltons are worth more than almost all nations on the planet. That's more than they need, and it's on the back of employee wages, both their own and their suppliers. As you said, we're paying for this scheme because the workers aren't making enough to survive, so they collect benefits on the taxpayer dime. Then there's all the cheap foreign crap that is all Walton (and such) workers can afford, putting the US in impossible debt with the trade deficit.

While all this has been going on for decades, small businesses in local communities have been decimated. The government is complicit by there being so many laws that it's almost impossible for a business to get started. Sure does seem like fascism....government hand-in-hand with huge corporations to control everyone else.

I don't see anything in that scheme that supports conservative values of self-reliance and the ability to make a living wage if one works hard.

[central_va]

The majority of people working at Walmart are on public assistance of some sort. So quite frankly, I am paying for them even if I don’t show there.True that, and in fact most of the shoppers too.