nwlaborpress.org | DHS lists top 50 employers with employees getting public assistance

I don't live in Oregon, but I suspect that my tax dollars are also going to corporate welfare for Wal-mart.

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You think that just maybe Walmart paid enough in taxes to cover that?


From Walmart's annual statement:

Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:
Income tax paid $ 6.596 BILLION

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Wal-Mart actually pays better than Target, as my wife found out. It's also the only major retailer than doesn't hire part-timers.

It's under no obligation to pay its employees more than market rates.

Pay Simone no mind. It's typical for union-loving leftists to bag on Walmart.

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"The problem with Socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money."
- Margaret Thatcher

"We had the machine scared and scrambling, and for them it is just the beginning of an election year filled with surprises. They will be challenged again and again across this country. When there's trouble in Massachusetts, there's trouble everywhere -- and now they know it." Senator Scott Brown (R MA)

What do these employers have in common? A large pool of largely unskilled younger workers. These are by definition the ones on the lowest rung of the economic ladder. It is not the responsibility of corporations to recompense a laborer more than his skill set would warrant. It is incumbent, rather upon that laborer to develop some marketable skill that would demand higher compensation. Constructing a sandwich or stocking a shelf are not terribly difficult jobs to master and thus there is a large labor pool competing for these jobs. The law of supply and demand indicates that you will not get wildly compensated for flipping burgers.

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Mutz, you old war horse! It's about time that you stepped away from the girl's club and posted here.

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"The problem with Socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money."
- Margaret Thatcher

"We had the machine scared and scrambling, and for them it is just the beginning of an election year filled with surprises. They will be challenged again and again across this country. When there's trouble in Massachusetts, there's trouble everywhere -- and now they know it." Senator Scott Brown (R MA)