Even though Wal-Mart is a colossal money maker, it barely pays it’s workers enough to live comforably, forcing employees to go on food stamps, Medicaid and other social welfare programs.
Wal-Mart pulls in $36 million dollars per hour – being the largest seller of food in the world. Yet, they don’t take care of their employees.
Through your tax dollars you are, in essence, handing a Wal-Mart cashier your money but not even getting so much as an empty bag in return.
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Is someone saying, we would be better off closing all Walmart Stores, so we can pay all those workers from unemployment checks, or should they pay more salary by raising their prices, so competition, can under cut their prices and put them out off business, so we could pay more taxes to pay for the out of work peoples unemployment problems? After you decide how much of the risk takers; Walton’s money, would be right for re-distrabution, who’s money is next, an who decides. Someone as smart, as to design a Health Care System (ACA), no thanks! Thank You Walton family for all those jobs,which sure help me pay less taxes!
This is unfortunately true. We have a friend who works there and she is now having to get another job. This is pitiful
That’s fair, right?!
Dispicable
Um yes….pulls in 26 million an hour, but how much of that is in profit? You cannot include revenue as profit. ……but then, those who don’t run a business won’t understand. Does anybody on here own any stock in their 401 k or Roth or IRA? If you do, shame on you for being a hypocrite and taking a profit. You are the reason for this problem. YOU are the greedy ones who are making a buck off of other people’s work. Shame on you. How dare you invest in companies to make a profit off of other people’s labor? According to this article, walmart investors are nothing more than modern day slave owners. But I guess with thst kind of mentality, it can be extended to ALL shareholders because they are also making a profit on others labor. Nevermind the idea that they are part owners in a company. How dare anybody make a profit. It’s articles like this that are written in such a way that they inflame emotions. They work on class envy in such a way that isn’t fair on the businesses that they write about. Nobody says you have to go to Walmart, Target, Kmart, nor any other big box retailer. Why do people go to those kinds of stores? I’ll tell you, better prices for the most part. They put smaller businesses out of business because of they’re massively lower prices. If you shop there, you’re supporting this behavior. Stop. Go to you’re local stores, pay more, have less options and support your local economy. Otherwise, continue shopping there but quit being a hypocrite. It’s lowlife folks who always think like this, because they don’t know how businesses are run. All they see is all that money going in the till, not knowing where it goes after that. There us so much overhead in running a company, most people don’t understand, nor want to understand. This is why they’re where they are in life. Ignorance is NOT always bliss. It is one of the root causes of class envy. Ok. I’ll get off my soap box, now.
And hurt those underpaid workers even more……brilliant
I support wage to ten per hour. But Walmart does not get a welfare check. I believe in a living wage at 40 hours. For a single person. A cashier job at Walmart was never meant to pay for a single person with two and three children.
Hmmmmm, I’ve seen plenty of 18 and 19 yr Olds working there. I used to deliver there quite a bit and that’s who’s in the back doing the real grunt work. There are things going on that everyday people never see when they go into any retailer. Walmart also employ retirees, second income earners, etc. The only lifers in most retailers are management. Most people don’t look at bottom tier jobs at retailers and go “that’s the perfect job for me”.
I went 15 years without a raise at my job. Finally got one, because corporate realized that we were being underpaid and was the main reason for the defections they were experiencing. Also, I pay way more for my insurance than I used to. It’s the economy. Between that, and them constantly raising the minimum wage when I didn’t get to see a corresponding raise, only hurt me more. Reason being, retailers had to raise their prices to make up for the increase in overhead due to the forced raise in labor rate. So it’s not just the poor walmart workers, it’s everybody else
Really? Where are the matching Social Security and other taxes going to come from? Also, are u a shareholder in Walmart stock? If you were, you could influence a lot of decision making. Get like minded investors on board with you. But then, you probably aren’t, this is like talking to a brick wall. Sorry to bug you.