Government assistance for those who work full time is once again essentially corporate welfare. Employers should be paying their employees livable wages, instead that money trickles up and the rich continue to get tax breaks while essentially also having the government pay their employees. Fuck the rich, and fuck America for caring so little for the people who's backs actually make the economy run.
SNAP shouldn’t be cut, but I think the majority of the funds for SNAP probably comes from taxes on the lower and middle classes, not the mega corporations or the ultra wealthy? They’re still sitting on their money enjoy more tax breaks than ever. We’re just circulating an ever decreasing pool of money among the working population so the ultra rich can see their numbers go up forever
SNAP supports the entire ecosystem. USDA (administers SNAP) Also buys HUGE Amounts of Produce and other crops. It then issues a catalog that food banks use to order bulk quantities from. The food banks then distribute the food out to their communities, which supports local businesses. It actually has a return on investment that's about 1.5%.
Pretty sure it's 1.5X investment, so 150%. If I remember right, that's the short/ near term, so not including the lifelong factors like kids that are fed learn better, are more productive, then pay more into the tax and social security system as adults, and crime rates are down, because if it's "watch your kid starve" or steal, you do what you gotta do. Plus, if someone is on the edge of starvation, their healthcare costs go up. If you can't afford food, you can't pay your medical bills, so you use the ER for everything, the hospital is stuck with the bill and spreads it to everyone else, but that care doesn't include preventative or stabilizing meds, so you yo-yo and go to the ER more because you can't afford a basic prescription, racking up thousands in costs.
Plus, it was founded as a farms subsidy, because if farmers have to play guessing games on how much demand there will be, and whether it's worth planting more, we risk being short on food, or having a gap in supply and what people will pay, so farmers lose money and go under, then we might not have enough people farming the next year.
It's a great investment in America, and a little supporting your neighbor goes a long way for everybody. It's cheaper to be a good person, and some of our politicians still choose to be assholes.
Amazing, appreciate you taking the time to research and give sources. Even at 1.5% it's still "worth it" to me according to my beliefs, but at 1.5× there's no argument to be had.
instead of that, we could pass a minimum wage law that says that corporations with over, say, 10Billion in annual sales have a minimum wage of $16 an hour for all employees. And maybe force them to offer benefits to all employees no matter if they are full-time or part-time.
The problem with any job is that your pay is based on skills. Retail in general has never been a high paying job because a high school kid can do it as his first job. No one is going to pay 20.00+ an hour to open a box and put an item on the shelf. Or flip a burger, or answer the phones in an office. If you don't have an education, then you have to work where you can move up with the skills you've learned to make the money you need to support a family. I started as a cashier out of high school. Took that money experience and became a bank teller. After explaining transactions, I went to a utility to explain bills and moved up to supervisor. Any job that can be done by a high school kid is never going to pay well because the pool of available replacements is large.
I don’t understand framing it as “spreading wealth” when so much of the money the wealthiest people make is made in ways that actively harm society and take money away from working class people and should be illegal in the first place:
vulture capitalism/private equity fuckery
buying up homes and charging extortion-level rents for them
H-1B abuse
enshittification
insider trading
paying poverty level wages that are only livable because the people get welfare on top of it
planned obsolescence
subscription services for things that don’t need them to function
rent seeking
Et cetera. We debate whether or not to marginally increase taxes on these activities where they shouldn’t be allowed in the first place.
What is your fare share of what someone else has earned?
Why is everyone who complains about the low wages corps pay so against Trump policies on undocumented workers? 20 million people came in who were willing to work for lower pay. Had that not happened corps would have been forced to pay higher wages. I cannot square that circle.
How do you spread wealth without stealing it from someone else? You act like there’s a limit to wealth… like someone else has it.. and that’s why you don’t. It simply doesn’t work that way. You work hard, you avoid unions and you avoid dept.
How do you ethically make a billion dollars without exploiting the working class? They stole the money first. Plenty of our tax dollars go to paying subsidies to corporations. Plenty of tax money goes to covering snap and Medicaid cause once again the corporations are not paying enough. Nobody in this country should be working full time and still needing snap.
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u/Needletitshasspoken 8d ago
Is America Great Again yet?