"We Want $15 an Hour and Full Time." Who's the Deadbeat?

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22. I am really tired of subsidizing their payroll -

that is what taxpayers are forced to do when they keep wages so low. Just spelling it out for those who may not have really thought about it (which I know is not you). When folks can only get part-time work at minimum wage they end up looking for a 2nd or even 3rd jobs. And they are still struggling. We still must provide assistance via welfare, food stamps, food banks etc. Some folks seems to have the idea these are just high school students who need to pay their dues or whatever, but that is not the case. With the loss of manufacturing many perfectly capable people who would be doing more skilled work are now relegated to very simple jobs just to make a living - to care for their families.

And I would like to say I don't even mind helping with those things if the company (especially when it is a small business) is also struggling. Then I understand that everyone has to pitch in through taxes and even their churches to help. But that is not the case with the Waltons. They are like the "robber barons" of long ago. They sit on piles of money in their Park Avenue suites while the middle classes stretches further & further to try to help those less fortunate. Enough is enough.