Wal-Mart is by far the biggest employer who regularly perpetuates the cycle of reliance on government hand-outs. The other companies are a drop in the bucket comparatively.
If Wal-Mart actually paid its share of corporate taxes, then you could argue that they pay for their employees to be on public assistance. But with corporate loopholes, offshore accounts, and other chicanery, these big companies are just leeches off of the American economy.
It’s time patriotism took a front seat and for companies to start making stuff in the USA and stop giving their employees 39 hours a week just so they don’t have to pay for any benefits, and let the social safety net take care of them (ie taxpayer funded food stamps and healthcare).
Sure, CEOs will only make maybe 1 million a year instead of 2, but isn’t it time to put America first? In WWII when people were growing Victory Gardens and skipped a meat meal one a week no one asked, ‘What’s in it for me?’
The USA is in a war for economic survival, and it’s time that big companies started pitching in.
Sorry
it is 2013
and we are and will forever be in a global economy
we can never go back nor would we want to go back to wages now paid to emerging countries.
We can either recognize this and look to ways to ensure our place
knowing it is not in mindless production
or we can continue to whine
which course do you choose to take
I lived for 12 years overseas working for US companies and paying ZERO income tax. One of the few things that still gives me a warm fuzzy is seeing that goose egg on line 28 of the 1040. Are you implying that you would not do the same if your could?
Maybe it's time for the freeloading deadbeats that make up the base of the democRAT party to pay their fair share. What's fair to you? 10%? 15%? Name a rate, then apply it to EVERYONE!