Well…if it wasn’t bad enough that the idiot trump is killing jobs across this country with his idiotic tariffs, he is now planning to spend 12 billion of our dollars to bail out his buddies that have been hurt by the tariffs. Yep, you heard that right…we can’t afford to spend 6 billion dollars to keep the Children’s Health Insurance Program going, but we can spend twice that to pay for trump’s stupid mistake of starting a ‘winnable” trade war. The deal here is that trump’s support in the midwest is cracking when thousands of farmers have seen their profits plummet with the retaliation of our trading partners and the tit for tat tariffs that they have put on American farm products…China has gone so far as to stop buying American soybeans which has made the price plunge below the profitability line…so trump has to buy back their votes with corporate welfare that will insulate them from the tariff’s effects…hmmm…I wonder if they are going to drug test the recipients of these payments…they are doing it with poor welfare recipients, I think they should do it to these corporate welfare queens, too….god, these guys are stupid…impeach….
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Walmart…part two…
Well…have been thinking about this more this aft and have come up with an even simpler solution…every company in the US that pays wages so low that their employees have to have government assistance of any kind should be required to pay the assistance back as a sort of tax to take away the incentive to cheat their employees out of a living wage while enriching the owners. This would be classic economics at work and since the repubs are so hot about eliminating government assistance for anyone, how could they disagree? It’s all a a matter of eliminating the distortions in markets that are cause by a big company like Walmart and it’s political power…Walmart is essentially stealing from you and me and so the Waltons can get richer and richer…it would at least claw back the 3.5 billion dollars in silent subsidies that come from their employees being eligible for Medicaid and food stamps and stop the greedy Waltons from pushing these costs onto you and me…geez…
Here’s how to solve the Walmart problem…
Well….have been thinking about this for a while now…how do we solve the problem of each every Walmart store’s low wages being subsidized to the tune of almost a million dollars a year in Medicaid and food stamps? I know that people say that if the employees don’t want to work there, they should go find better jobs…but that is a just nonsense, many of the employees at Walmart have no other choices for work since Walmart drove the businesses they used to work for into the ground. So, let’s just get past that…and you know that every dime of the Walmart tax, as I call it, is going into the pockets of the Walton family and the upper management of the company; the worst kind of corporate welfare. So my idea is to make companies like Walmart and many in the restaurant industry pay their fair share is to fine them the difference between what they pay their employees and the amount that makes them eligible for benefits….if they want to pay someone 10 dollars an hour and the poverty wage calculates to at least 15…then we fine them 5 dollars for every hour that they force people to work for less…we need to take the incentive away for Walmart to leech off the rest of the country and make them pay the real cost of their labor…after all you and I subsidize each and every store to the tune of almost a million dollars a year…take that away and we take away the power these thugs have to suppress wages across the US…and I’m sure we never agreed to pay this “Walmart tax”…geez…