re: #10 sagehen

Let’s do some math.

2.2 million employees, 15.7 billion profit, is $7000 per employee.

They could give every single one of their employees a $100/week raise, and still make billions in profit.

I think what employees really want is full time work. What should happen is for companies like Walmart who expect the government to make up the difference between what they pay and what employees need to live be taxed at 200% of the difference.

Of course this would be very complex to do, and there’s no political will anywhere in the government to do it, but Walmart shouldn’t be able to profit by having the government “paying” their employees because Walmart has made a corporate decision not to.