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.
/johnny
Sounds like a worst cases scenario to me and certainly not based on reality.
The same could be said of ANY employer who pays below around $15/hr.
“Envy is an ugly thing.”
Yes it is. But it’s not the issue here.
I’ve never seen a hook in the rear end of any Wal-Mart employee anywhere.
/johnny
Is the problem with Walmart or the current government that gives out food stamps like candy?
If you don't like your wages, 1) don't work there, and 2) go somewhere else. If a lot of people left, then Wal-Mart would have to respond. Same with Micky-Ds. Econ101
Would Wally World pay their employees more if there were no government subsidies?
No?
Then they aren’t relying upon taxpayers to subsidize their wages.
The purpose of business is to make a profit. Not provide a living wage.
/johnny
So speaks the 99%.
Government welfare programs are problems caused by the legislature, not WalMart.
/johnny
If she wants a target for wasting Taxpayer monies ,I would suggest the supremely wastful “President ?” Barack “THE Big SPENDER” Obama.
Billions and Billions, and Billions, WASTED.
Maybe they would. If there were no gov’t subsidies, then people obviously couldn’t get by on a Walmart salary. So they’d have to look elsewhere. This is largely a government created problem. The welfare “hammock” incentives business to keep wages low.
Walmart is soooooooooo eeeeeeeeeeeevil and wages are so low that only some 20,000 applicants applied for some 600 jobs in the recently-opened stores in the DC area.
I think you’re on the wrong website, pinko.
That $900,000 figure comes from a report done by Democrat staff. It’s a Union puff piece, and if full of could be’s & maybes.
“Is the problem with Walmart or the current government that gives out food stamps like candy?”
Welfare Can Make More Sense than Work
Most decisions in life are the result of a cost-benefit analysis. When residents in Connecticut consider getting a job, they assume they would be better off having a job than not. They’d be wrong. Because in Connecticut, it pays not to work.
Next Monday, the Cato Institute will release a new study looking at the state-by-state value of welfare. Nationwide, our study found that the value of benefits for a typical recipient family ranged from a high of $49,175 in Hawaii to a low of $16,984 in Mississippi.
In Connecticut, a mother with two children participating in seven major welfare programs (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Medicaid, food stamps, WIC, housing assistance, utility assistance and free commodities) could receive a package of benefits worth $38,761, the fourth highest in the nation. Only Hawaii, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia provided more generous benefits.
When it comes to gauging the value of welfare benefits, it is important to remember that they are not taxed, while wages are. In fact, in some ways, the highest marginal tax rates anywhere are not for millionaires, but for someone leaving welfare and taking a job.
Therefore, a mother with two children in Connecticut would have to earn $21.33 per hour for her family to be better off than they would be on welfare. That’s more than the average entry-level salary for a teacher or secretary. In fact, it is more than 107 percent of Connecticut’s median salary.
“Is the problem with Walmart or the current government that gives out food stamps like candy?”
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