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Paying people less or hiring people getting government benefits is nothing like dumping poison into a water supply.

• hedora 10y ago
  It is similar to slowly poisoning the water supply when you destroy dozens to hundreds of local mom and pop stores with each supercenter (which leads to decreased life expectancy in the community, due to drug/alcohol abuse, suicide, etc). Anyway, that well-documented boat sailed in the '90s, and now we have Amazon (and I think Amazon deliveries are a net good thing). What really bugs me is that I have to subsidize low wages at walmart. If the US would just switch to guaranteed income or raise the minimum wage, walmart prices would go up something like 1%, but their employees would make at least 33% more. Then my taxes could be used for something useful, like education.
  • jrs95 10y ago
    Those expenses would also be passed on to working class people who are not making much more than the minimum wage, though. Paying for it with taxation is probably better in that regard. Although that could be offset in other ways. Adjustments to EITC and universal child care could make a huge difference for low income people, without having to have a full guaranteed income.
  • specialist 10y ago
    Walmart's business model is to enrich themselves by stealing from suppliers, taxpayers, employees. Their retail operation is how they launder the money. The Freedom Market™ zealots willfully ignore that Walmart destroys competition, with other people's money. I do not mind mega corporations being anticompetitive. Sociopath is as sociopath does. I do mind pretending that its a moral good. I do mind that I (Jane Taxpayer) is paying the bill.
    • dang 10y ago
      Please don't post ideological rants here, regardless of their flavor.