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Showing Original Post only (View all)Want to see the real welfare queen? [View all]
The Democratic Staff of the Committee on Education and the Workforce estimates that one 200-person Wal-Mart store may result in a cost to federal taxpayers of $420,750 per year about $2,103 per employee. Specifically, the low wages result in the following additional public costs being passed along to taxpayers:
$36,000 a year for free and reduced lunches for just 50 qualifying Wal-Mart families.
$42,000 a year for Section 8 housing assistance, assuming 3 percent of the store employees qualify for such assistance, at $6,700 per family.
$125,000 a year for federal tax credits and deductions for low-income families, assuming 50 employees are heads of household with a child and 50 are married with two children.
$100,000 a year for the additional Title I expenses, assuming 50 Wal-Mart families qualify with an average of 2 children.
$108,000 a year for the additional federal health care costs of moving into state childrens health insurance programs (S-CHIP), assuming 30 employees with an average of two children qualify.
$9,750 a year for the additional costs for low income energy assistance.
from http://underthemountainbunker.com/2012/02/25/walmart-costs-taxpayers-1557000000-the-conservative-circle-of-life/
Also see
http://www.mindfully.org/Industry/2004/Wal-Mart-Labor-Record16feb04.htm
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A picture of the Waltons with a title about real corporate welfare provided by taxpayers would be
DhhD
Nov 2012
#63
In every community? Is this the case where you live, that you have that figure?
freshwest
Nov 2012
#71
Sure, there's still almost as many Republicons in Congress as before the election.
xtraxritical
Nov 2012
#15
This is what the union should be blastsing...over and over and over. Put it on picket signs.
libdem4life
Nov 2012
#16
I work for Wal-mart and know of several co-workers who are on some type of government assistance.
Terra Alta
Nov 2012
#22
I hate Wal-Mart too but $1.5 billion is far less than the US taxes it pays
banned from Kos
Nov 2012
#38
A couple billion? Try $26 Billion EACH - Their combined wealth is more than the bottom 40% of the US
TexasBushwhacker
Nov 2012
#48
k and r--thanks for the info, and links--this needs to go on fb, and be spread as far as possible.
niyad
Nov 2012
#66
Why aren't the Republicans talking about this? Sucking on the government teat!
yardwork
Nov 2012
#70