What’s so wrong is these companies get tax credits for hiring Snap recipients while executives make 300 times worker pay! Also, they annually spend millions lobbying Congress (& bribing trump) to cut their taxes more. And Republicans sell denial of food with “lazy ass” stereotype

No, the problem is this.

The “real welfare queens” aren’t the people who built businesses that employ millions, they’re the politicians who tax producers to subsidize dependency and then blame the very people creating value. Amazon pays double the federal minimum wage, and Walmart isn’t far behind. They pay more than most small businesses, and Amazon even lobbied for a higher minimum wage to crush competitors who couldn’t afford it. That’s not exploitation; that’s government distortion. If some employees still qualify for welfare, that says more about inflation, taxes, and welfare cliffs than it does about wages. When the government devalues the dollar and penalizes work with taxes, it forces people into dependency, then blames the private sector for the mess it created. And here’s what you won’t mention: minimum wage laws were born out of racism. They were designed to price low-skilled minorities out of the labor market, to protect white unions from competition. That’s the origin of your “compassionate” policy. It didn’t end poverty, it institutionalized exclusion. So no, Warren the problem isn’t Walmart or Bezos. The problem is the same class of paternalistic bureaucrats who think they can fix poverty by outlawing opportunity, inflating the currency, and calling it justice.

Really? How many Afghanis and Somalis are Bezos and the Waltons starving out?

When there's 40 million on $6/day, yeah that's a problem

Wages are not determined by how much money the employee wants to spend every week. Wages are determined by the average value they bring to the company. And most Walmart employees could be replaced by high school students that would do just fine on Walmart wages.

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And all the illegals dumped in the country

You shop at either? For the low prices and convenience? K.

Get your nails did first

Also, the countries like Israel and Argentina receiving foreign aid. Some of those tax free billionaires you mention, like Larry Ellison, also contribute heavily to Israel despite getting tax breaks here. We are a captured servant state.

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If the French Revolution teaches us anything, unbridled wealth isn't sustainable

AND BOTH OF THOSE COMPANIES RECEIVE SUBSIDIES FROM OUR GOVERNMENT.... Not only do they only pay a pittance in taxes, they get our tax dollars through these subsidies. Time to EAT THE FUCKING RICH

Amazon employs over 1.5 million people. WalMart employs 2.1 million. Jobs, pay checks, benefits, careers, sense of purpose, real opportunities. Government handouts offer none of these things. You know what a starvation wage is? $0 per hour. No job. No opportunity. Businessmen are the real heroes of America.

Let me disabuse you of that foolish notion.

This Walton family? You mean this👇🏻Walton heiress who took out a full page ad & helped organized the “No Kings Rally”? Im not saying you are wrong. But when the greedy assholes you are talking about want trump gone….. that should tell you something. cbsnews.com/amp/news/walmart…

So you're in favor of ending this tax funded indirect subsidy of these corporations?

You realize no one is forced to work for them, right? People can go somewhere else, in which case those employers would have to offer a higher wage. That they don't is an indication that they are paying the correct wage.

I'll never understand why we allow companies to have 1000s of employees but they can lobby against unions.

A box filler gets paid what that job is worth and how hard it is to find people that can master that skill. The fact that box filler has five kids to feed, isn’t Bezos’s concern.

Billionaire is a measure of wealth not income. We tax income. The top 1% make 25% of the nation income but pay over 45% of the income tax. Government revenue has been going up year after year. The problem is not revenue but how we spend it which is horribly inefficient

Call them parasites

And a hell of a lot of military families rely on the SNAP program to make ends meet

Bullshit. The CBPP study found that in their analysis of 8 states that Walmart had the largest number of SNAP recipients at 14,500. How many employees does Walmart employee in those 8 states - over 313,000 just in those 8 states they used in the study (Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington) that means the percentage of Walmart employees that are also on SNAP was 4.6%. 4.6% of their employees. If this was a chronic problem of low paying wages there’d be a hell of a lot more than 4.6% of their workforce receiving benefits. The data on SNAP usage by employer was taken from GAO data that didn’t differentiate whether workers collecting SNAP were full time vs part time vs seasonal workers, how many were seniors working limited hours as greeters to supplement income. It didn’t differentiate if it included people who started working at Walmart and were transitioned off SNAP only that they had received SNAP and then worked sometime within a set period of months at Walmart. There are 262.9 million adults in this county. 41.7 million SNAP recipients of which 61% are adults, meaning nearly 25.5 million SNAP recipient are adults which is nearly 10% of adults in this country receive SNAP and you think the 4.6% of Walmarts workforce that happened to work at Walmart for some hours during some period around the time they received benefits are the problem? Here’s a lesson for you that statistics are can tell any story you want and sound real scary especially when they completely omit other relevant data to put the numbers in perspective.

Amazon employees start at over $20 an hour… and many make over $50k per year… more than entry level teachers and paramedics… what are you talking about??? You mean all that $20/hr minimum wage rhetoric was all BS?

“The problem is the person who employs them.“ Now there’s some leftist logic for the highlight reel.

Exactly, if we paid living wages, required corp to pay fair wages and benefits, increasing the minimum wage to a just wage, families and workers could afford to eat, live, thrive. We can't have it both ways: low wages, exploitation, no benefits, no social safety net.

Yes, nobody working a full time job in the richest country in the history of the world should need food stamps to keep their kids from going hungry. This isn't sustainable. Nobody ever sees the French Revolution coming.

Food stores receive 8 BILLION taxpayer dollars PER MONTH from the SNAP program. We are subsidizing the billionaires

They’re just one part of the billions in taxes these ultra rich hide, hoard and lie about.

It's been this way a long time. Are you just learning what being poor looks like or is it just easier to blame it on Trump? When I was a PFC in the Marine Corps (Clinton was in office). I was donating plasma often and working at Papa John's on the side and I was still broke.