SNAP is not corporate welfare - in fact, it is the exact opposite! Employers have to pay their employees more because SNAP exists: since SNAP benefits decrease

SNAP is not corporate welfare - in fact, it is the exact opposite! Employers have to pay their employees more because SNAP exists: since SNAP benefits decrease with more income, SNAP benefits decrease the marginal benefit to a worker for each extra hour worked. This reduces a worker's incentive to work and thus reduces the labor supply, so wages have to rise to maintain equilibrium (assuming labor demand is downward sloping). Another way of looking at it is SNAP gives workers a better alternative to working - not working - so it raises workers' reservation wages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_wage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_wage If it were not for SNAP, you'd actually be able to hire more workers at a cheaper price because the alternative to working - not working - would no longer be as attractive. (Posted this comment top-level on a dupe, deleted it there and reposting here.)