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Actually, Walmarts probably gonna be hemorrhaging money without SNAP. Like, they’re the single largest recipient of money from the program, by way of people using SNAP at them to buy groceries.
It’s actually supper perverse since a lot of their employees are on SNAP due to the poverty wages they pay. Walmart employees buying food with snap at Walmart is a non trivial part of their revenue.
A lot of conservatives argue that we shouldn’t have snap since it makes it possible for companies to pay poverty wages and not have their workers starve to death, and that without it employers would have to raise wages. Conveniently ignoring the fact that companies like Walmart would rather let their workers starve than raise their wages.
A tax to contribute to SNAP on companies that pay wages so low that their employees end up on SNAP is the better answer to the problem.
That's exactly my point. People won't spend SNAP at Walmart, they'll cancel Prime and all other streaming services. Something's gotta give, and even HEB is raising prices by 25%-50%. Like, how is the line supposed to go up when people can't afford your products?
We're going to see a bunch of fools parted with their money.
"Pay them enough to buy food? Pshaw."