Bonus Quote of the Day
Bonus Quote of the Day
March 1, 2021 at 11:58 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
https://politicalwire.com/2021/03/01/bonus-quote-of-the-day-1464/
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“The Republican Party is not the party of the country clubs, it’s the party of hardworking, blue-collar men and women.”
— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), on Twitter.
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Opinion: By Opposing Minimum Wage Increase, Republicans Scam Taxpayers and Endorse Poverty
By Tim Libretti at PoliticusUSA
https://www.politicususa.com/2021/02/28/opinion-by-opposing-minimum-wage-increase-republicans-scam-taxpayers-and-endorse-poverty.html/amp
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Last November the non-partisan Government Accountability Office released a report confirming what had already been widely known: the American taxpayer is effectively footing the bill for the labor that enables many of the nation’s largest corporations to reap billions of dollars in profits.
Workers at many of America’s richest companies, including Walmart and McDonald’s, are among the top beneficiaries of federal aid programs such as Medicaid and food stamps.
In effect, this means that for workers at these companies to sustain themselves–to have enough to eat, to have access to healthcare to keep themselves physically and mentally functional, to have their basic needs met to keep them alive—the American taxpayers must supplement the insufficient wages these companies pay while their profits soar and economic inequality in the U.S. continues to worsen dramatically.
And yet Republicans would have us believe that raising the minimum wage will hurt the economy by putting an undue burden on companies such Walmart, McDonald’s, Kroger, Amazon, and Dollar General—some of the worst offenders when it comes to leeching off the American taxpayer to subsidize their employee’s ability to stay alive and work—somehow it’s absolutely affordable for the average American to pick up the tab for these companies and their shareholders but receive no portion of their profits.
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