“One of the reasons that the Walton family, the owners of Walmart, are so wealthy is that they receive huge subsidies from the taxpayers of this country,” he said. “When you pay, at Walmart, starvation wages, you don’t provide benefits to your workers, who picks up the difference? The answer is that many of the workers in Walmart end up getting Medicaid, they get food stamps, they get affordable housing paid for by the taxpayers of this country while the Walton family remains the wealthiest family in America.”
“If that is not obscene, I don’t know what is,” Sanders concluded.
Stolen from Jeff at Smokey and me again. Read entire article there.
I wouldn't shop at Walmarts anyway as its full of trailer-trash, the kinds of shoppers I try to avoid.
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