RE: If Americans Are Stupid Enough To Fall For This - They Deserve Whatever They Get.
April 4, 2014 at 9:47 am
(April 4, 2014 at 8:43 am)Heywood Wrote: Where does the government get the money to pay for the food stamps? Well, 7 billion dollars came from Walmart. If Walmart is going to be forced to pay their employees a wage sufficient to keep them off food stamps, then the payment they are forced to make to subsidize the government should be reduced because the government won't need as much.
The 7 billion that you refer to are the same kinds of taxes we all pay for maintaining our society. Their current tax burden has nothing to do with this issue. Unlike Walmart, I don't receive a government subsidy from those taxes. Consequently, some of MY tax money is going to Walmart, indirectly subsidizing their labor costs.
The two solutions to this inequity in tax burden are:
1. Raise the minimum wage so Walmart pays for their own labor costs with no government subsidy, direct or indirect.
2. The government bills Walmart for the cost of feeding their employees PLUS government administrative fees to issue the food stamps to their employees. All this would be in addition to their current tax burden.
All forms of corporate welfare should be abolished! For-profit businesses need to foot their own bills.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
