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.
Sorry if I connected dots you are not smart enough to connect….I’ll try and type slower for you next time…….
Read 235 and then shut up….SOTC is more patient man with libtards than am I….
True enough, but it also shows a contrast between the Kingdom of Heaven and your preference, i.e. the Kingdom of Marx: In the Kingdom of Heaven, the Master gave to each of His servants "each according to his ability" whereas in your preferred Kingdom of Marx it is "from each according to his ability and to each according to his need".
There were several other parables and examples in the ministry of Jesus where people asked Jesus to tell others who had more to share with those who had less, and instead Jesus responded by warning those who had less against the sin of covetousness.
No thanks. I will just seek to see you -- and sht -- banned.
I'm just done with them. They are literally destroying the nation, and somehow we are supposed to be _civilized_ with them? We owe them ANYTHING? F** that.
Every job has a worth to be decided by the market. Some people are only worth minimum wage or lower. Minimum wage jobs are entry level jobs meant to gain experience and then move up to a higher level.
No, but a length of rope is a nice gesture, and appropriate. ;)
/johnny
That jogged some old memories from my Ohio days!
***while the Waltons are sitting on untold billions and billions of dollars***
The Waltons keep all their money stashed under their beds in Bentonville! Each day they add to the pile and jump in it as we would a pile of leaves in the fall! They grab the money, throw it over their heads and say...”MINE! MINE! ALL MINE!” They put Scrooge McDuck to shame!
Yet the pile never grows as the money at the bottom is so old it is rotting into dust so they just keep piling new money on top!
Not bad for a small Mom and Pop store (WALTON’S 5 & 10)that took a chance and bought some bankrupt BEN FRANKLIN stores, and made it!
There are some people who absolutely refuse to be educated. The trolls on this thread seem to be of that ilk. All that can be done in that case is to defeat them politically.
They just won life's lottery. They need to be destroyed for the collective good.
Do you shop at the oh-so-much-cooler Target? If you could pull off you "hate WalMart" blinders, you'd see that their pay and benefits are right in line with WalMart's.
If you don’t like the wages, work some where else!
New report debunks narrative on income inequality
http://www.laffercenter.com/2012/07/lefts-dubious-history-income-inequality/
The Latest News on Tax Fairness-top 20%’s share up, everyone else’s share down over last 30 years
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444873204577537250318931044.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
CBO: By the way, the rich already pay more than a fair share in taxes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2905255/posts
If fairness in paying taxes means the amount you pay is based on the amount you make, then the only group in America paying at least a “fair share” is the top 20%—people who make more than $74,000. For everyone else, the tax code is a bargain.
There’s also another way of looking at fairness, and that’s the tax burden. Here, consider the top 20% of income earners (over $74,000). They make 50% of the nation’s income but pay nearly 70% of all federal taxes.
The remaining 30% of the tax burden is borne by 80% of the taxpayers, those who make less than $74,000. In short, this group’s share of taxes paid, 30%, is lower than the share of income they earn, 50%.
Yet President Obama says that “for some time now, when compared to the middle class,” the wealthy “haven’t been asked to do their fair share.”
He’s right that the system isn’t fair, but not because the top 1% pay too little. It is because they pay too much.
“WalMart saves the average American family more than $3,000 per year.
Do you shop at the oh-so-much-cooler Target? If you could pull off you “hate WalMart” blinders, you’d see that their pay and benefits are right in line with WalMart’s.”
At some point, it’s just a matter of dollars in and dollars out.
It shouldn’t be hard to look at how many dollars Wal-Mart generates and how many total it pays out and how much is then left over.
We’re told it took in 470 billion and had 17 billion profit with 2.2 million employees and who knows how many stockholders.
If we gave EVERY DOLLAR ALL of the profit of the company to the employees they would get 7700 dollars a year extra, 149 dollars a week extra, about 5 dollars an hour extra based on a 30 hour week. That would turn an 8 dollar an hour employee into a 13 dollar an hour employee.
What would the stock holders get per share with 3 billion shares out there?
So, they raise their prices, and who pays it? Maybe nobody. They could price themselves out of competition. But, assuming they don’t, we pay. Our costs go up.
And, to be honest with you, $13 an hour is a 19,500 a year job, and that means they’ll still be on food stamps.
All we’ve really done is raise our costs and still pay the food stamps. It just strikes me that retail and service jobs are not the way to get people out of poverty.
All we’ve really done is raise our costs and still pay the food stamps. It just strikes me that retail and service jobs are not the way to get people out of poverty.
You should have seen Benton County and NW Arkansas before Walton bought the Ben Franklin stores.
The county was firmly in the stranglehold of THE CHICKEN MEN who paid agricultural wages far below minimum wage.
You worked for them or you didn’t work. People were kept so poor they could not move to find better work.
Then Walmart started up and sucked all the labor away from THE CHICKEN MEN.
The Chicken men refused to increase wages to compete for labor with Walmart, so they went to Mexico and imported the first Mexicans into our area.
Now the children of those Mexicans work for Walmart and the Chicken Men are now importing Africans.
Meanwhile, the local economy is booming because of Walmart and no one lives in tar paper shacks or old log cabins any more.
We got a fine art Museum (Crystal Bridges) and a fine theater (Walton Arts Center) in which we see current Broadway shows, all because of those “E-e-evil” Waltons.
I do not, nor have I ever worked for Walmart.
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