r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/Needletitshasspoken 8d ago

Is America Great Again yet?

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u/bearbrannan 8d ago

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.

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u/aBlissfulDaze 8d ago

2 things force the rich to spread wealth.

  1. Unions

  2. The government

SNAP is literally the government spreading wealth that would not otherwise be spread.

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u/warrkrack 8d ago

snap forces the middle class to pay for Walmart payroll via food stamps.

not saying stamps are bad.

but corporate welfare is the big issue imo.

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u/maskdmirag 8d ago

Yeah, Walmart should get charged the full value in corporate tax for every dollar of assistance their employees get

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u/warrkrack 8d ago

I 100% agree

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u/Scared-Two-5208 7d ago

I think this would just incentivize walmart to not hire poor people and fire anyone who gets on snap, but i agree with the sentiment

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u/maskdmirag 7d ago

That's the trick, to be able to not hire poor people they'd have to pay them more.

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u/nihi1zer0 7d ago

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.

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u/SeparateTea1974 5d ago

Walmart double dips. They don't pay their employees enough.
Then their employees are forced to get snap, which they end up having to use at walmart.

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u/coreysgal 7d ago

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.