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This seems like a pretty straight forward issue to me. If the minimum wage is too low for employees to live on in your state, then raise the minimum wage. Don't
by Thriptic 9y ago
This seems like a pretty straight forward issue to me. If the minimum wage is too low for employees to live on in your state, then raise the minimum wage. Don't get angry with a corporation for complying with wage laws that your state set. It should be pretty unsurprising that a company is seeking to pay minimum wage for unskilled labor. Also if you don't want to offer tax incentives to a corporation then complain to your legislators. I'm pretty sure every company would jump at the opportunity to leverage tax incentives, not just Walmart.
- maxerickson 9y agoYou could look at a newspaper column as a way of trying to gain public support for your view, public support that would be useful in getting legislators to act.
- Thriptic 9y agoSure, but they are framing the problem incorrectly which will poorly bound the types of solutions legislators will shoot for. If the problem is framed as "Walmart is abusing the system" then the proposed solutions will probably all be some variant of "punish Walmart". However, the problem is actually that the system (wage laws, tax laws, etc) is poorly serving its constituents, not that Walmart is abusing it. The proposed solutions to this problem look very different and involve raising the minimum wage and changing the way tax incentives are provided.