That seems unlikely. $200,000 in merchandise goes through the cashier a year, or the cashier has EARNED them 200,000 a year? Seems more likely to be the former, but then what else went into that sale? The shelf stocker, the truck driver, the production of the asset itself, the store manager, the utilities and overhead, all of a sudden that $200,000 that went through the cashier's register is depleted pretty quickly.
A subsidy from who? Wal-Mart doesn't get the money.
You gotta stop this. You're making too much sense.
Oh its like people forget what college was like and how to live on a budget. Full time minimum wage (which Walmart pays more then) is $1,350.00 a month here in the state of Missouri. Are you seriously trying to tell me you can't rent a bedroom in a house and feed yourself for that every month?
You think all those people are single with no kids? You think they never have medical bills? And who gets full time hours on a minimum wage job any more? Back when I was working minimum wage they kept me under 32 hours a week to keep from having to offer benefits and changed my schedule every week to keep me from getting another job. I wasn't working for Walmart, it was IHOP, but it comes to the same thing.
Yeah, they wouldn't. That workforce would have to sell drugs or something to make ends meet. Say if you have two kids, a boy and a girl, on a single parent income, we're talking a grand a month just for housing without government benefits then you have three mouths to feed instead of one, then you need gas and repairs for whatever clunker automobile they can afford to buy or get handed down to them by relatives. Then you have doctors bills for when the kids get sick and kids do, inevitably. The government ends up paying for all of those things through section 8 housing, food stamps, medicaid etc.
We were talking life or death. Now you're suddenly making that person responsible for other people's lives too. You're also saying now that the wage Walmart is offering isn't a problem at all. You're saying the amount of available jobs in the job market aren't enough. Which is true. Because minimum wage is holding them down. The idea is if you work for Walmart part time, you have plenty of time in your day to go work another job. Which if there is one available shouldn't be a problem at all.
Why? There are places way cheaper then that to live. Maybe not New York, but then don't live in New York. People have no concept of how cheaply a person can actually live if they try. Most are just too lazy to try or don't want to move.
You're assuming this person never has his car break down, or gets pregnant, has a medical issue, or an unexpected expense. If someone is living by the skin of their teeth, they're just one hiccup away from being homeless. A single mother doesn't get to just "survive" on bare necessities, she would need child care, child medicine etc. Things like food stamps keep her afloat and able to work, which is to say it keeps an underpaid workforce capable of existing. Without it, those people give up and try something new, Wal-Mart has to raise its wages to attract employees.
I didn't give him/her a car in the first place. You're giving a person a child as well. Again, I'm talking about a person's ability to support themselves. I'm not talking about their ability to support others. Walmart has no need to attract employees who want to support a family of 4. There are plenty of people in this world needing a job who don't have kids to support.
If you have two kids you're going to have to have at least a two bedroom apartment, unless you want CPS to take your kids away. That's going to approach a grand in most cities. Even if you get off lucky and it's 750, after taxes you don't have that 1350 any more anyway. You're really talking 250 left to pay for food, clothes, schools, medical bills. Ever looked into what it would cost to pay for a doctor's visit without insurance? One of your kids gets a fever or you get one flat tire and there goes more than all the money.
I can show you plenty of two bedroom places that cost under $500 a month. Also, CPS isn't allowed to take children from a home because of the amount of bedrooms in the home. It's just not true.
I notice that I mentioned medical bills about 18 times and you've been dodging the hell out of that. Won't it cost Wal-Mart money if their employees die every time they get sick?
What percentage of people do you think need life saving medical care? I know I've certainly never needed life saving medical care. Besides if you have the need for life saving medical care a hospital will provide it to you, without any money up front. So again, no one is dead from that either. Besides, under Obamacare, don't they basically get free healthcare?
Isn't Obamacare one of the government handouts we're talking about, along with medicaid and medicare? Also, hospitals only have to treat acute appendicitis or gunshot wounds, etc. They don't have to treat you for anything that doesn't immediately endanger life and limb, so it's really easy to die from things without medical care if a condition is allowed to worsen until death is inevitable. Even that's a government enforced law, so we should take that away too.
Less than half of Walmart employees get insurance most of their workforce is part time and that is a company policy.
A lot of that cost is also just compliance with Federal and state bureaucracy. It's not just benefits, it's safety training, having an HR department, keeping track of taxes, workman's comp insurance etc.
500 dollars a month, plenty?
Who said anything about removing all government laws? If you knew anything about economic's the policies with regards to anti trust are what have changed everything since the Rockefeller days and would prevent any such thing from happening. You do know we didn't have a federal minimum wage until the 1930's?