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Why is that. I don't want my tax dollars going to welfare for their workers. I have skin in that game.
by teclordphrack2 5y ago
Why is that. I don't want my tax dollars going to welfare for their workers. I have skin in that game.
- jdavis703 5y agoThere are plenty of reasons to support unions, but this sort of corporate welfare could be eliminated by increasing the minimum wage.
- gruez 5y agoPaying people minimum wage is "corporate welfare"? How so?
- jdavis703 5y agoBecause the alternative is the taxpayer winds up paying for those workers’ healthcare, food and housing (Medicaid, SNAP and Section 8 vouchers).
- gruez 5y agoYou're forgetting the alternative where the person ends up getting unemployed instead, in which case the taxpayer pays 100% for those workers’ healthcare, food and housing.
- disposekinetics 5y agoIt isn't a binary, the question is the right representation as much as anything else.
- JohnWhigham 5y agoWhy would governments magically stop subsidizing Amazon if their workers unionized?