- Lisa wrote:
- The part that should make people screaming mad is the condescension and fucking ill-will that is the hallmark of the government greed.
Well, yeah, but that's sort of a bigger conversation that what I was addressing here. Also, government isn't really that greedy. People in government occasionally are but I see greed as a corporate thing. Which I expect. What I do not expect is that greed will be allowed to run rampant and is often confused with patriotism or a market. That I find weird.
- NoCo wrote:
- At $9/hr it'd be $18,720/yr
And that's gross. That's not actually what the family has to work with.
While I don't consider MW the only problem it would help a lot for an economy like this one that is run off people buying things to also be an economy where the poor were helped with money for those things. WalMart may bitch about paying their taxes and giving benefits but without SNAP and government subsidizing worker pay WalMart couldn't exist at the profit levels it does now.
Which is also part of what pisses me off. It's pretty clear the rest of us subsidize corporate profits by helping these workers with benefits and programs. I think it's about time we put that cost back onto the backs of the profit makers rather than the government and ourselves.
It also pisses me off that people can work all the fucking time and not make enough to live. It's wrong.