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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/18/food-stamps-medicaid-mcdonalds-walmart-bernie-sanders/

Walmart and McDonalds have the most employees on food stamps and Medicaid.

They reluctantly increased wages, but they are still screwing over employees. [/quote]

Those employees have zero skills. They would be unemployed and even more broke if they weren’t given jobs by Walmart or McDonald’s. I hope you realize that.[/quote]

Not necessarily true.

In the majority of the country (outside of your coastal or major metropolis bubble), Walmart and McDonald’s are often the biggest employers.

There are teachers in the south who have given up their teaching job to work at places like Home Depot…for similar wages.

Regardless of the facts, are you insinuating that low-skilled people shouldn’t be paid a living wage? And taxpayers should subsidize corporations by covering their staff on food stamps and Medicaid?

That’s baffling. [/quote]

So what I said is correct, especially for those living outside of the coastal areas. These people would be unemployed and even more impoverished if they weren’t given jobs at McDonald’s or Walmart. [/quote]

So we should allow big corporations like Walmart to be subsidized by our taxes via ridiculous tax breaks and public benefits for their employees since they refuse to pay sufficient wages? I disagree. [/quote]

They are not “subsidized via public benefits.” Those employees on public benefits just so happen to work at Walmart at a given time. [/quote]
It basically is. Walmart offers low prices in part because they pay their employees poorly. So in effect low prices are passed on to their consumers but the consumers pay taxes that subsidize their employees because they can’t live on $11 an hour. [/quote]

Please show where Walmart is paying $11 an hour. [/quote]
Excuse me it’s $12. My mistake. https://careers.walmart.com/stores-clubs/walmart-store-jobs[/quote]

So what? [/quote]
$12 an hour is crap and with inflation is basically a poverty wage. [/quote]

It’s Walmart, what do they expect? 15-year olds can and do perform the job. Supply and demand.[/quote]
Go look in a Walmart. The employees aren’t kids. In fact if you look up their age demographics less than 3% of their workers are under 18.  Lots of grown adult men and women working there and they’re working 40 hours a week. [/quote]

A 35 year old working at Walmart cannot get a job anywhere else. They should be glad to have one there. [/quote]
You’re delusional. In many rural areas or places where the population has been decreasing places like Walmart or dollar general are the only places for employment and they take advantage of that by setting low wages. [/quote]

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