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I think you vastly overestimate how much Walmart pays its employees. Google "Walmart food stamps" and you'll lots of reading such as http://www.forbes.com/sites

I think you vastly overestimate how much Walmart pays its employees. Google "Walmart food stamps" and you'll lots of reading such as http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-walmart-workers-cost-taxpayers-6-2-billion-in-public-assistance/#769ea3df7cd8 http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-w...

wtbob 11y ago
It's entirely possible to be paid above minimum wage and require food stamps, since minimum wage applies to everyone, to include minors and dependent spouses. Increases to the minimum wage have had a brutal effect on black and youth employment, for obvious reasons. It's amazing how minimum-wage advocates refuse to accept reality. The minimum wage should be the lowest amount a person is willing to work for.
- XorNot 11y ago
  That would be just abolishing the minimum wage.
  - michaelmrose 11y ago
    What positive effect would be accomplished by abolishing the minimum wage. People don't actually have to be rational let alone moral actors. Do you really believe the middle class should be taxed to provide benefits for people that are working so that their employers don't have to pay more in wages? That is literally what is happening now and there is no reason to suppose that in the absence of benefits that wages would be adjusted upward to compensate with any degree of expediency. The people of our nations are precisely stupid enough to let the economy crash and burn as has been previously shown.
- michaelmrose 11y ago
  The amount I'm willing to work for is effected by the availability of subsidized housing, food stamps, and Medicaid for all. Free minimalistic cellphones. I probably benefit 15k annually. Making the crappy 14k I'm making survivable. My wife can't work due to medical issues. Basically we don't have a rational market now and can't so the only rational way to keep companies from riding on everyone's tax dollars is to set an artificial floor.

wtbob 11y ago

It's entirely possible to be paid above minimum wage and require food stamps, since minimum wage applies to everyone, to include minors and dependent spouses. Increases to the minimum wage have had a brutal effect on black and youth employment, for obvious reasons. It's amazing how minimum-wage advocates refuse to accept reality. The minimum wage should be the lowest amount a person is willing to work for.

XorNot 11y ago
That would be just abolishing the minimum wage.
- michaelmrose 11y ago
  What positive effect would be accomplished by abolishing the minimum wage. People don't actually have to be rational let alone moral actors. Do you really believe the middle class should be taxed to provide benefits for people that are working so that their employers don't have to pay more in wages? That is literally what is happening now and there is no reason to suppose that in the absence of benefits that wages would be adjusted upward to compensate with any degree of expediency. The people of our nations are precisely stupid enough to let the economy crash and burn as has been previously shown.
michaelmrose 11y ago
The amount I'm willing to work for is effected by the availability of subsidized housing, food stamps, and Medicaid for all. Free minimalistic cellphones. I probably benefit 15k annually. Making the crappy 14k I'm making survivable. My wife can't work due to medical issues. Basically we don't have a rational market now and can't so the only rational way to keep companies from riding on everyone's tax dollars is to set an artificial floor.