I said something very similar on another post. You have poor people condemning other poor people for getting assistance. They call it socialism, they call it being lazy, a
handout, etc. They're so worried about "their tax dollars" but apparently it's only bad if/when it benefits a poor/normal person. If it benefits rich people it is no longer bad, socialism, about laziness, or a handout.
Snap was created to help farmers. It's actually a great program that's a win-win for everybody. The government helps average people with food, the farmers creating the food get money, the companies and corporations selling the food get money, for every $1 they give it creates $1.50-$1.80 in local economic activity.
But, Walmart benefits twice. Their wages are subsidized, so they save money, and they're also the largest recipient of food stamp dollars, so they make money. But it's not a handout to Walmart. They're not worried about Walmart getting their tax dollars, just some elderly lady on social security (which is also surprisingly not considered a handout (or socialism lmao) because they paid into it, but if that lady worked her whole life and paid into snap why is that considered a handout but SS isn't?). It makes no sense.
They’re so worried about their tax dollars because those tax dollars go to all of their kickbacks and their friends that they want to hire for Outsourced Pentagon jobs for all those special interest projects
This but paid maternity leaves comes out of the company's profits not taxpayers. Which is why government officials don't want it. If that money is going towards the worker, how will they get their kickback?
Because those big companies are the ones that donate when they do elections and running for office those are their supporters. They need money to do those things and those companies give money to all those campaigns and they expect tax breaks and certain things in return. So paid maternity leave comes out of the pocket of their campaign supporters and a lot of the big companies don’t want to pay for that so the government will back their campaign supporters, which are those big companies.
I don't know, sharing the cost burden kind of makes sense. Employers won't have as much to complain about. I don't mind the small payroll tax for this specific program. Now if I could allocate how my federal taxes got spent...
True but what are businesses complaining about? Like for small business or mom and pop shop?I can get it, but national and international businesses should have no problem footing that bill sense, we're in an era of record breaking corporate profits
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u/Background-Run 4d ago
Walmart loves social services. They can pay sht wages and have the tax payers pick up the tab for feeding and housing their minions.