Are Walmart and McDonald's Welfare Queens?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/2013/12/24/are-walmart-and-mcdonalds-welfare-queens/?partner=yahootix

Good read, though most people pushing for minimum wage increases are far below understanding it. The author is using the example that if food stamps and welfare benefits were eliminated Walmart would not raise wages and would, in fact, lose revenue from the decreased spending available to families who receive food stamps.

A simpler format is to point out that if Walmart DOES raise wages, the employees now receiving food stamps and welfare would lose the food stamps and welfare and be worse off financially inless their wages equaled the "living wage" for their area. In Vermont that is about $19 per hour. This is $1 per hour LESS than one can collect in benefits for not working at all. And Medicaid is far better insurance Is anyone suggesting a minimum wage of $19 per hour?

The problem is the minimum wage. By setting a minimum wage you have set THE wage these people are paid. Unless there is a labor shortage...and absent a natural disaster that ain't happening in jobs that can employ untrained and uneducated high school students...the minimum wage will never be exceeded. Many Walmart employees are retired or have spouses who also work, they are not collecting welfare or food stamps. Many are students, high school and college who need no benfits as they are still covered buy their parents. Walmart makes an offer and people accept it or reject it. Anyone trying to raise a family on a Walmart income can much better benefit their family by going to college in their spare time or getting certified in some other type of work...or as many do...just collect welfare and not work at all.

What is the minimum wage for a Nurse? What is the minimum wage for a code writer? Why do they make more? Because their wages are determined by supply and demand...free market. Walmart and McDonalds wages are determined by the government. Who does better?

Unless we do somethig about the uncontrolled exploitation of illegal aliens by US employers, any pressure to increase minimum wage os nothing but a conscrition of more illegal aliens to be exploited. The same people that push for increased minimum wages are also wanting to ignore the impact of human trafficking and exploitation...nothing less than slavery.

SLAM the doors closed on any business that employs illegals and take out that "supply" of low wage workers which will increase pressure on US employers to pay more for US workers. These people are doing work that Americans won't do....for that price!

[ready4ONE 5,400]

The Gub't doesn't set pay for Walmart and McDonalds, corporate suits do. Since both have proven that they are happy to rake in billions and pay employees as little as they can get away with, that amount just happens to be the legally lowest amount they can pay by law.

[luckytxn 2,265]

The facts are confusing to Socialists. I have tried to explain the bad points of the issue and they always look at you like you are speaking another language.

Voting oneself monies from the treasury is the first step toward disaster.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/2013/12/24/are-walmart-and-mcdonalds-welfare-queens/?partner=yahootix

Good read, though most people pushing for minimum wage increases are far below understanding it. The author is using the example that if food stamps and welfare benefits were eliminated Walmart would not raise wages and would, in fact, lose revenue from the decreased spending available to families who receive food stamps.

A simpler format is to point out that if Walmart DOES raise wages, the employees now receiving food stamps and welfare would lose the food stamps and welfare and be worse off financially inless their wages equaled the "living wage" for their area. In Vermont that is about $19 per hour. This is $1 per hour LESS than one can collect in benefits for not working at all. And Medicaid is far better insurance Is anyone suggesting a minimum wage of $19 per hour?

The problem is the minimum wage. By setting a minimum wage you have set THE wage these people are paid. Unless there is a labor shortage...and absent a natural disaster that ain't happening in jobs that can employ untrained and uneducated high school students...the minimum wage will never be exceeded. Many Walmart employees are retired or have spouses who also work, they are not collecting welfare or food stamps. Many are students, high school and college who need no benfits as they are still covered buy their parents. Walmart makes an offer and people accept it or reject it. Anyone trying to raise a family on a Walmart income can much better benefit their family by going to college in their spare time or getting certified in some other type of work...or as many do...just collect welfare and not work at all.

What is the minimum wage for a Nurse? What is the minimum wage for a code writer? Why do they make more? Because their wages are determined by supply and demand...free market. Walmart and McDonalds wages are determined by the government. Who does better?

Unless we do somethig about the uncontrolled exploitation of illegal aliens by US employers, any pressure to increase minimum wage os nothing but a conscrition of more illegal aliens to be exploited. The same people that push for increased minimum wages are also wanting to ignore the impact of human trafficking and exploitation...nothing less than slavery.

SLAM the doors closed on any business that employs illegals and take out that "supply" of low wage workers which will increase pressure on US employers to pay more for US workers. These people are doing work that Americans won't do....for that price!

[ready4ONE 5,400]

The facts are confusing to Socialists. I have tried to explain the bad points of the issue and they always look at you like you are speaking another language.

Voting oneself monies from the treasury is the first step toward disaster.

Perhaps it is you who could use a history lesson. Big business is not a friend to workers. There was a time when being a worker was a very miserable, dangerous and all too often deadly thing to be. All regulations are not onerous and minimum wage is not really all that is wrong with business in America.