Reply #9: and as LTRS said in the original post,

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we the taxpayers pick up the slack when their employees can't make it above the poverty line.

I don't mind one tiny bit helping the workers themselves out with Medicaid, food stamps, etc--as a (relatively) more fortunate member of society than they, I consider it a privilege to be able to do so. What I mind is that, as LTRS said in the original post, the ultra-rich Walton bloodsuckers are getting even more ultra-ultra-rich on the taxpayers' dime by not paying out what they morally should be spending on health care and decent wages.

Thank goodness for karma. They'll see things a bit differently when they're reincarnated as one of their own employees. Over and over and over again, I hope....

(Edited to give LTRS credit for making the point I just repeated....)