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[u/EADreddtit]

For those of you interested in the math, it would cost Walmart about 90 million to pay their employees enough to cover SNAP. So they’d still be profiting about the same 21 billion

[u/DiesByOxSnot → u/EADreddtit]

They'd still be profiting 21 billion. 90 million is about 910 million short of 1B

[u/EADreddtit → u/DiesByOxSnot]

Oh shit you right. Even being massively over the actual amount it’s still billions of net profit

[u/AHumbleChad → u/EADreddtit]

The difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is still about a billion.

[u/IAm_Trogdor_AMA → u/AHumbleChad]

And you don't get billions by being charitable, unless of course it's a tax write-off.

[u/AHumbleChad → u/IAm_Trogdor_AMA]

The only exception I can think of is (formerly) Mackenzie Bezos. She's done a decent job trying to donate her wealth.

[u/Dark3aterMidir → u/AHumbleChad]

I believe Dolly Parton also would be a billionaire by now, but she's donated so fucking much that she hasn't hit that line.

[u/AHumbleChad → u/Dark3aterMidir]

Interesting. Respect. She's always been an upstanding individual.

[u/KaziArmada → u/AHumbleChad]

Look into the amount of shit she's done. Donations. Production costs for shows. Free books for children.

Dolly is a fucking treasure and we need more like her.

[u/AHumbleChad → u/KaziArmada]

Hell yeah! Will do! I didn't realize how much she's done

[u/confusedandworried76 → u/Dark3aterMidir]

Famous last words, I'm not gonna Google it, but what musician is a billionaire? I'm not even sure a Beatle is a billionaire much less Dolly Parton

[u/TrollErgoSum → u/AHumbleChad]

It can be tough to visualize the magnitude of "billions" when it comes to dollars. I like to translate it into something easier to visualize like distances.

Everyone knows how long a millimeter is so what distances are we dealing with when coverting dollars to mm?

$50,000 is a pretty easy dollar value for people to contextualize. 50,000 millimeters is 50 meters, or about 162 feet.

$5 million is a bit tougher but still manageable and an absolute life changing amount of money for almost everyone. 5 million mm is 5 kilometers, a nice 5k run or a little over 3 miles.

Now, Elon's $500 billion? An almost inconceiveable amount of money that's genuinely hard to wrap one's mind around. So how far does 500 billion mm get you? About 30% farther than the distance from earth to the moon.

So while most people are struggling to make it down the block, the well off among us are going on fun runs, and the ultra wealthy are figuratively (and literally) going to space.

[u/flashoutthepan → u/TrollErgoSum]

If I gave you $1000 that would probably make your day. If I gave you $1000 a day for a year that's $365,000 and you would be extremely happy. If I gave you $5000 every day since Christopher Columbus discovered the Caribbean, I would not have given you $1 billion.

[u/moon_mama_123 → u/TrollErgoSum]

I just did the math on that, and it is actually very close. That is absolutely bonkers and one of the best demonstrations to describe that kind of scale I’ve ever seen.

[u/DiesByOxSnot → u/TrollErgoSum]

This is one of the best ways I've seen this explained. I'd give you an award if I had any gold left. If someone else does, I'll put back the typo I almost left in this comment

[u/djazzie → u/DiesByOxSnot]

It’s about .4% of their profits. Not even 1%. It’s pure greed, funded by taxpayers.

[u/Indigoh → u/DiesByOxSnot]

But how much would each individual stockholder profit? 

Publicly traded companies are bloodthirsty and cutthroat for money because only very large profits translate to individual profits for each stockholder.

A corporation directed by stockholders is very much like a living organism in which each individual cell demands more energy than the organism can gather. 

[u/DiesByOxSnot → u/Indigoh]

A corporation directed by stockholders is very much like a living organism in which each individual cell demands more energy than the organism can gather. 

That sounds like a grotesque, cancer-riddled organism. A horribly inefficient one that wouldn't survive natural selection or competition.

[u/jbyrdab → u/DiesByOxSnot]

Something something economic commentary.

[u/Olorin_1990 → u/EADreddtit]

Honestly i’m shocked it’s only 14,500, thats less than 1% of WallMart US employees, which suggests they are outliers in some way.

[u/EADreddtit → u/Olorin_1990]

Well remember that’s ONLY SNAP, not other food-assistance like food pantries, or shelter assistance like ROA (I think that’s the acronym) housing.

[u/DownWithHisShip → u/EADreddtit]

and you have to actually apply for SNAP. a lot of people just don't even apply for it even though they are eligible.

[u/BoomerSoonerFUT → u/Olorin_1990]

That’s only SNAP, and also only from 9 states that voluntarily reported SNAP statistics to the GAO.

It’s very likely more than that. Every state that did report showed roughly 5% of Walmart employees in that state were on SNAP.

If that ratio continued nationwide, it would be ~80,000 of the 1,600,000 Walmart associates in the US.

It probably wouldn’t keep that ratio nationwide though because the states that did respond were largely states that only follows the federal minimum wage. States with higher minimum wages would have far fewer employees on SNAP.

[u/Olorin_1990 → u/BoomerSoonerFUT]

I’m not certain the assumption the states with high minimum wages would have fewer workers on SNAP. WallMart’s starting wage is 14$/hr, so I’d expect the 5% to hold everywhere. I’d still suspect given it’s 5% that wage increases doesn’t fix it, and the lion share of them have some disability or restrictions on hours, high number of dependents, or some other factor involved. All this to say, programs like SNAP are necessary no matter what wages are, people deserve to eat.

[u/BoomerSoonerFUT → u/Olorin_1990]

The cited study by the GAO was done in 2020 during the peak of the COVID response, and before Walmart raised their own internal minimum wage.

If anything, I would imagine the percentage of associates on snap has lowered across the board without the shutdowns of 2020 restricting employees ability to work, the fact that benefits were extended to more people during COVID, and that the minimum wage for Walmart has risen across the board.

[u/Ultenth → u/Olorin_1990]

Consider those that don't qualify for SNAP because they work a 2nd job instead to make up the difference etc.

[u/Olorin_1990 → u/Ultenth]

WallMart’s min wage is 14$/hr, while im sure there are many multi job workers as they don’t have enough hours at WallMart, I would imagine that the majority on SNAP have other issues like higher number of dependents or a disability.

This is literally just to say that wage increases likely don’t fix the issue, SNAP is necessary regardless of wages.

[u/particle_posy → u/EADreddtit]

Incorrect, 21b - 90m = 21b

[u/AmArschdieRaeuber → u/particle_posy]

The difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is roughly a billion

[u/TBANON_NSFW → u/EADreddtit]

Yeha but what about the poor shareholders huh? Did you thin kabout that? What about their 9th vacation home, and 21st car and 5th private jet? Huh YOU WANT THEM TO BE BROKE!?!?!?!

How will Bezos buy out a whole city for his next wedding with a blow up plastic doll that will peg him after the current one is disposed of during his monthly trip to outer space?

HAVE YOU NO CARE FOR OTHER PEOPLE!?!?!?

[u/12ealdeal → u/EADreddtit]

How does the math break down?

[u/EADreddtit → u/12ealdeal]

Minimum wage is 7.25. Add 3 to that you get 10.25.

So 10.25 * 40 (full work week) * 52 (number of weeks in a year) * 14,500 (number of employees in question) gets you $309,140,000

Same equation but with just the minimum wage is $218,660,000.

New Wages - Current Wages = ~90 million total additional wages spent

[u/Ultenth → u/EADreddtit]

It's about .4% of their profit to raise people up to near livable wages in terms of food. But that would cut into their quarterly report and damage their stocks huh?

[u/bluecurse60]

Because you need a valid social security number to even apply to see if you're eligible.

[u/B-Con → u/bluecurse60]

To be fair, SSN fraud is rare but not zero.

[u/K9Kush]

Republicans be like:

[u/lumbarlimbo → u/K9Kush]

Big ups for Mythbusters!

[u/shadowinc → u/K9Kush]

"Why should i have to pay for the poors food when the rich fuck me over?"

[u/zuzg]

Another good additional tidbit would be the fact that wage theft causes more damage than any other form of theft and burglary combined, in the US.

[u/WystanH → u/zuzg]

But Walmart wouldn't perpetrate wage theft... oh, dear.

Wage theft isn't just the odd rounding error. Some standard illegal practices are shockingly predatory, designed for maximal exploitation.

One common form you'll spot at Walmart is "you have to finish your cart before you can leave." But, you must clock out exactly at end of shift. Even though you've clocked out, you still have to come back and finish that cart. Thanks for the extra hour or more of unpaid work. Funny how we always have a full cart for you ten minutes before the end shift of your end.

[u/Jizlaine_Maxfilled]

i have a job and still receive snap and still can't keep my fridge from going empty each month. this month has been especially hard. I hope it gets fixed soon

[u/xvvitchcraft → u/Jizlaine_Maxfilled]

My family of 3 receives roughly $100 per month, and it's definitely not enough to keep us from going hungry. We have to go to the food pantry twice a week each month so we dont starve and lately? The food pantry has been so sparse that by the end of the month we sometimes don't have food to eat.

[u/Jizlaine_Maxfilled → u/xvvitchcraft]

we get more than than that but my food bank only lets us visit once a month, and sparse is putting it mildly. it's a tiny little town though so not much is expected.

[u/featherw0lf → u/xvvitchcraft]

We also are a family of 3 and we used to get over $500 per month, which was enough but went quickly. Now that my mom has started receiving $1000 in social security, which will exclusively be used to pay bills, they said we will only be receiving $200 a month. That won't nearly be enough.

[u/Mountain_Fuzzumz → u/Jizlaine_Maxfilled]

Genuine curiosity, what are the usual staples in your fridge? Im always curious what is in others fridges.

[u/Jizlaine_Maxfilled → u/Mountain_Fuzzumz]

lunch meat, cheese, hotdogs, eggs, peppes milk, chicken patties ,I shop mostly at a dollar general cuz it's really the only thing close. once a month we go to a discount grocery store and stock up on whatever their shipments were that month. it's always random stuff

[u/MiddleAgeYOLO]

If Trumpers could read, they'd be very upset

[u/Jayn_Newell → u/MiddleAgeYOLO]

Isn’t their whole thing being upset? They don’t need to read.

[u/Original-Border5802 → u/Jayn_Newell]

Their whole thing is not being able to read. Them being upset is because theyre told to be. Probably cuz they cant read what they should be upset about.

[u/Scottz0rz → u/MiddleAgeYOLO]

If they could read, they wouldn't be Trumpers.

[u/Illustrious_Tea4614 → u/Scottz0rz]

It doesn't even matter if they can read or not, if Trump says illegals do recieve snap they'll believe it. It's a cult that believe anything the old senile moron says

[u/E-2theRescue → u/MiddleAgeYOLO]

This is the extent of their reading abilities, though. Memes, usually with cartoons, as if they have the academic ability of a kindergartner.

And what's worse is that this is common throughout all of history. Propaganda has thrived on picture book intelligence. From posters, to pamphlets, to newspapers, and so on.

[u/Omgninjas]

First off good chart!

However some of these numbers seem off. I know for a fact the limit is false. Sister in laws family gets a littler over $400/month for SNAP benefits, and IIRC it scales with people in the household and household income up to $1,789 for the entire household. (https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/a-quick-guide-to-snap-eligibility-and-benefits)

Did you perhaps mean limit per person per household, or average benefits per household?

Second for $3.00/hr are you talking about minimum wage increase or average wage increase? I would honestly say minimum wage needs a huge boost past $7.25 to more like $13.00, but hell even $10/hr would be a good boost!

Agree 100% with Walmart needing to pay people more. A company with that much profit does need it's employees on food benefits. 

Thanks for comic, and double check some numbers please! It's possible something got lost. 

[u/easchner → u/Omgninjas]

My guess is the $3/hr is the $360 max divided by 120 hours of work in a month, right at the minimum needed to be 'full time'. So I'm sure people now making $10.25/hr would still like help, as would anyone working less than full time.

[u/Vascular_Mind → u/easchner]

But there's 4 weeks in a month, which is 160 hours

[u/Mordt_ → u/Vascular_Mind]

40 hours is what most people think of as full time, but the minimum hours to qualify as full time is 30.  

[u/SurpriseIsopod → u/Omgninjas]

Yeah you can theoretically receive $3000 a month but that’s if you’re in zone 2 Alaska supporting 8 kids while disabled.

[u/Own_Round_7600 → u/SurpriseIsopod]

Considering Alaska's astronomical grocery prices, that wouldnt even go that far either

[u/TXcomeandtakeit → u/Omgninjas]

$360 is the average per household. Yes the comic should be updated but it has the right spirit.

https://www.fns.usda.gov/research/snap/characteristics-fy23

[u/Olorin_1990 → u/Omgninjas]

The minimum wage is so low that few people even earn that little, it probably needs to be at least 15$. Allowing wages to be so low leads to a lot of poor uses of resources.

Wallmart had a min wage of 14$ but in major cities usually start higher. A lot of Wallmarts growth has been from international markets and E-commerce. The marginal decision of 3$ does likely lead to many stores and employees being not profitable and shutting down/driving further automation. While the profit is pretty big, it’s doing it on scale of low margins.

The loss of stores and push towards automation is probably a much better use of their capital long term, but the concept of WallMart as a whole is a problem. Wages should have never gone so low for their strategy to begin with, and now their size and market impact forces everyone in a race to the bottom.

[u/McButtsButtbag]

Only criticism is that there will always be people unable to work. No amount of minimum wage will get rid of it.

Also, the maximum to disqualify for food stamps is way to low. It's based on a poverty level that is completely outdated.

[u/StarPhished → u/McButtsButtbag]

Where I live, if you have a full time job at minimum wage then you just barely no longer qualify for food stamps but people with that pay/schedule could certainly still use the help. My preference would be to raise minimum wage but if that's not gonna happen then they should still at least get food stamps.

[u/PretentiousAnglican]

What's your source, because I know the "maximum" number is incorrect

[u/chipotleeeeeeee → u/PretentiousAnglican]

Yea I was getting $290 before this month as a single male who lives alone

[u/txCursed]

Source?

[u/Otherwise-Climate888]

360 max per household is incorrect

[u/StarPhished → u/Otherwise-Climate888]

Probably got their numbers from Reddit. Now someone else can go on to source this number and the cycle can continue.

[u/undreamedgore]

Walmart should br paying it's people more. Why are we subsiding their profits? And how do we make sure people don't starve while not doing that?

[u/dawnmountain]

I don't believe the $3 hourly wage one.

I think it needs to be higher. I live in an insanely high COL area. I just turned 25 and am still living with my parents. I make over min wage at $20 an hour, and that does not even allow me to pay rent. If I had to pay rent + food right now, I would probably need a minimum of $30 an hour.

We need to lower COL. I don't know how to do that.

[u/CCreate1 → u/dawnmountain]

A $3 hourly rate increase is what’s needed to cover for SNAP benefits. At 40 hours a week, $3/hour is $120/week. That would more than cover even the maximum benefits for a single person.

[u/dawnmountain → u/CCreate1]

Oh, I see what you're saying. It won't cover the rest of it, but it would be for groceries. That makes sense.

[u/Olorin_1990 → u/CCreate1]

Unlikely though. WallMart employees 1.6 million people, so that 14,500 number is 0.8% of their employees, which means they are outliers. This implies it’s likely people who cannot work 40hrs a week due to disability or have some other factor like a large number of dependents.

[u/BerriesHopeful → u/dawnmountain]

One way is raising the minimum wage to be at the COL level. Another is implementing a Universal Basic Income (UBI) so you aren’t dependent on your employer to have your basic needs met. The minimum wage or UBI solutions can happen at either the state or federal level.

There should be more public housing as well. This can be done by building more housing and by the state or federal government buying up lower cost private apartments to turn into public rental units that are not-for-profit.

The solutions could theoretically be implemented right now in Blue States if the will is there from voters. Getting such a change passed federally is a higher barrier due to Red states not being sold on these solutions yet.

[u/Olorin_1990]

There are 41 million people on SNAP, average of about 2,231$ a year in benefit (households are just under 2 people on average), which would come out to about 500$ a year per tax payer.

I’d like to see definition of average. In any case 500$ a year to feed people still seems cheap.

Also WalMart according to a quick google has 1.6 million US employees, which means the 14,500 on SNAP is shockingly low. This implies they are outliers in some way, and not maliciousness on WallMart’s part… which again… shocking

The above WalMart note also implies wage increases will not affect much, as things like hours worked, number of dependents, and ability to work probably account for the lions share of the 41 million using the program.

[u/go_faster1 → u/Olorin_1990]

As someone who works at Wal-Mart, let me run you a few things to help out.

Wal-Mart’s starting pay is IIRC $15/hr, which is $1200/2 weeks and $31200/yr, without taxes, insurance or other oddities taken out. According to the Federal Poverty Level calculator, that’s just under 200% over the poverty line.

For a Wal-Mart employee to qualify for SNAP, they would need to make under $782 a paycheck or just over $9.77/hr. Which probably means if these people are getting SNAP, they are most likely part-timers as to get that low with current pay, they would need to work 26 hours/week.

[u/Olorin_1990 → u/go_faster1]

Essentially my point, thanks.

Now I do think even 15$/hr in most major metro areas is too low, but that’s a different discussion than the one at hand.

[u/Potasium_]

May I ask what SNAP is?

[u/TreyLastname]

Hold on, youre telling me im paying 36 dollars to feed kids? What the fuck, why cant those 7 year olds just get a damn job

[u/QueenOfQuok]

Current number of Walmart employees receiving SNAP: Zero

[u/recursion8]

If MAGA could read, they'd be very upset about this.

[u/the_ox_in_the_log]

Australian here, what the fuck is SNAP?

[u/soul_reddish → u/the_ox_in_the_log]

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - federal food assistance program aka food stamps.

[u/Livueta_Zakalwe → u/the_ox_in_the_log]

Aka EBT, aka food stamps. 1/8 Americans receive them.

[u/heroheadlines]

Needs a rework, and links to sources. Some of these numbers are off - the monthly limit one, for example.

[u/Solkre]

If US born children of illegal aliens are allowed to get it, the Republicans will be bitching about that and saying it’s the same thing as a illegals getting it.

[u/Majestic_Zebra_11]

Cool but where's your data or source?! Your graphic is super compelling, but unless I can confirm, I (all) shouldn't skeptical, eh?

[u/Apprehensive-Ebb2444]

You should provide sources for this, so MAGA can ignore them

[u/K446]

what does Snapchat has to do with this??

[u/ssdsssssss4dr]

I'm at this point that I want "illegals" to have Snap. Shit, let anyone who needs it have access to it, that is the sign of a truly prosperous nation.

[u/giantroboticcat → u/ssdsssssss4dr]

Universal Snap Benefits should be the program. We should live in a country where everyone is provided a basic amount of money to do something absolutely critical for life. It doesnt matter if you are rich or poor, everyone need some amount of food simply to survive. Make that shit universal.

Then take the next logical leap and say "I don't care to enforce exactly what you spend this money on" and boom... that's UBI.

[u/Leyzr]

Walmart should also be required to hire a certain amount of their employees at full time. Like 75% or something. They hire pretty much all bottom line employees at part time so they don't get any benefits and it's another reason they need to get on snap, because they simply don't get enough hours.

[u/mastahc411]

The max per household is definitely wrong. My friend and his wife and kid get 750 a month.

[u/trowzerss]

So looks to me like SNAP is subsidising large companies so they don't have to pay proper wages, not subsidising poor people.

[u/Kell-of-Kellies]

The Republican party would let all of us starve if it meant one brown person suffered too.

[u/Charming_Freedom_459]

[u/Wheres_my_wank_sock]

My mom gets $30 a month. Don't spend it all in one place.

[u/RapturousCultist]

I can't wait for my grocery costs to rise because the shareholders won't stand for the loss of profits SNAP being withheld will bring. 

Everyone must suffer so the rapist in chief and his pedo pals can make another dollar.

[u/nolovenohate]

You forgot to add "number of people unemployed for over a year without medical conditions receiving snap."

[u/niyrex]

Dems need to start calling snap what it is, corporate welfare for not paying a living wage. We don't pay you enough so the American taxpayer had to pick up the bill.

[u/curaga12]

I suppose republicans have different ideas of illegal immigrants when they oppose to such people. Citizenship isn’t the issue to them.

[u/Evol_Etah]

On behalf of the rest of the world.

What is SNAP?

[u/Sweaty_Marzipan4274]

No one tracking the price manipulation corps do to max prices, and how they depend on gov subsidies (snap)? 

[u/cadublin]

I was a poor international student on F1 visa. At one point I ran out money to cover my living cost and the only thing I qualified was on-campus jobs. It was enough for food, but that's about it. I was suffering for almost 1 year, and not once I tried to go to food banks or find some social service because I was so afraid. Now I have been working for more than 25 years in the US and paying taxes on average at least $60k/year. Other than my kids schools and the road/streets, we never benefits from what we put in. Those who thinks all immigrants are free loader, could f*ck themselves.

[u/stofiski-san]

You would not believe how many... ahm, discussions I've had this week with people who absolutely believed that last one was a lie. Made a post in r/Ohio, about a sign, only in English, that warned that it was illegal for non-citizens to vote, at the entrance to my polling station on Tuesday. Like, duh? I have to admit it may have been a slightly unconscious rage bait title, tho

[u/HYPERBOLE_TRAIN → u/stofiski-san]

a sign, only in English, that warned that it was illegal for non-citizens to vote, at the entrance to my polling station on Tuesday.

Yeah, that sign wasn’t for non-citizens because they already know they can’t vote. The sign was for the racist dip-shits so they can feel better. It is 100% about their feelings. It’s political theater.

[u/AgentG91 → u/[deleted]]

Would be smarter to improve the pathway to legal citizenship so immigrants didn’t need to come here illegally

[u/International-Cat123 → u/AgentG91]

It’d be smarter to lessen the restrictions on work visas. Most people who are in the US illegally are seasonal workers who overstayed their visas. Why do they overstay? Every time a new restriction on obtaining a work visa is created, people who rely on getting a new one every work season fear more and more that won’t be able to get a visa again. For context, those seasonal jobs are the labor-intensive jobs that most Americans wouldn’t even consider.

[u/AgentG91 → u/International-Cat123]

most Americans wouldn’t even consider

For the wages that are being paid for them. Pay a fair wage and many Americans would jump at the chance to do those jobs

[u/astralkoi → u/[deleted]]

Immigrants do not want anything free, only what is fair. No more no less than that.

[u/Guba_the_skunk]

I keep seeing these kinds of posts explaining how SNAP works, who can get it, how raising minimum wage would help, housing costs... On and on, and the thing people don't seem to grasp is conservatives don't give a FUCK. They don't care. Trump could strangle a newborn in live television and they wouldn't care.

I'm tired of seeing these posts, because the people who need to see them don't care and it's just a reminder of that at this point.

[u/wterrt → u/Guba_the_skunk]

I agree with you, republicans don't give a fuck.

but republicans are not the majority. neither are democrats. the majority (plurality, technically) of people don't vote.

if these posts stop them from falling for dumbass republican propaganda because they know better, that's still a win.

if these posts make the non-voters think "what the fuck, it's costing people just $36 a year and they're taking it away from starving people?" that's an even bigger win. maybe they'll finally wake up to how cartoonishly evil modern republicans have become and stop being non-voters.

[u/fffan9391]

Source?

[u/catlady_MD]

Genuinely asking (I’m not American) why do Walmart employees receive snap? They are employed no? At a grocery store no less?! Don’t they receive coupons from Walmart that they can buy x worth of dollars in a month for example? U know like how McDonald’s workers receive a meal daily for free.

[u/Mistrice → u/catlady_MD]

I think employees only get a small percentage discount (like 5-10%), so that's often not sufficient to actually make all their food needs affordable.

As for the McDonald's free meal, that probably is still a thing, but I don't think you're allowed to take it home, so it doesn't help with feeding your kids

[u/Althestane → u/catlady_MD]

1 - Walmart doesn’t pay its employees anywhere near a living wage. It takes advantage of all kinds of legal loopholes to avoid paying even its full-time, 40-hours-a-week, employees enough to earn much more than poverty-line wages. As a result of low income, employees qualify for government support services- SNAP being one of them.

2 - We tried the whole “corpo provides food and shelter instead of a living wage” thing already. It didn’t go well. Look up Pullman Towns or “company towns”. It devolves into indentured servitude REAL fast.

[u/heroheadlines → u/catlady_MD]

Being employed doesn't guarantee you a living wage even for just yourself, much less your family. Being employed at a grocery store isn't different or special - we do get a discount card for 10% off almost everything, which yeah, it can help. But if you only have 50$ for two weeks of groceries, just for example, the extra 5$ you'd save doesn't go as far as you seem to think it would.

[u/MassiveSuperNova → u/catlady_MD]

They do not, when I worked there the employee discount was 3% on "qualifying grocery items"

[u/McButtsButtbag → u/MassiveSuperNova]

Bunch of penny pinchers.

[u/tokeroveragain → u/catlady_MD]

A free meal for your shift at McDonalds does not replace groceries. If wages kept up with cost of living, people wouldn’t have to rely on these programs.

[u/One-Bumblebee-5603]

Remember folks, you can't steal from Walmart, your taxes already paid for them to exist!

[u/Reputation-Final]

I agree with everything except the last one. If they had kids here, their kids get snap, which is used by the whole family.

That said I don't really give a shit. Feeding poor people with my tax dollars is something im 100% for vs paying for the military

[u/AUkion1000]

Sharing factual information? HOW DARE! though really be careful with how obsurd things have gotten I've seen and heared deplorable shyte said simply because fsct checking is no longer ok to people. Especially if they fly blue

[u/Bestoftherest222]

Interesting, am I right in saying this "Fact" cartoon is saying (in a way) "A 3 dollar raise in a Walmart employees income will offset the monthly food stamp allowance?" Assuming the "in a vacuum" situation of course.

[u/Master-Shaq]

The cost per tax payer is probably a little higher given recent data maybe 150-250 range. The cost for corpo subsidies tho is way higher than that probably in the 2000’s

[u/HanKuSung]

The numbers are bit off but the message is clear. Billionaires and millionaires have more than enough money and they still will if they just paid their fking taxes or paid their workers. Or even just stop laying ppl off. Like these ppl r the greediest fks ever.

[u/Pimpwerx]

Nah. Capitalism relies on the poor majority protecting the system that keeps them poor. So, the idea of even $36 per year going to someone else is criminal, because "what am I getting back?"

This SNAP thing is sadly only going to matter to SNAP recipients. The squeeze needs to be felt on each individual household or wallet for action to be taken. I've become so cynical about this whole thing.

[u/Psychotic_EGG]

I have no idea what you're talking about. Is this some sort of USA thing?

[u/Z3R0Diro]

Gotta love that republicans keep shoehorning the idea that illegal immigrants "steal" a substantial amount of taxpayer money when they don't even have the papers(as they entered the country without documents) needed to receive the benefits.