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To: Road Walker who wrote (739584)	9/15/2013 3:35:50 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577177

>> The point is you and I are subsidizing Walmarts and SAMs low wages. To the extent anyone is subsidized, it is the employee, NOT the employer we are subsidizing. To argue otherwise is a totally convoluted view of it. Walmart is in no way a party to these payments and in no way benefits from them. That our idiotic government thinks every soul in America ought to be paid more than he/she is worth is not Walmart's problem, but to the extent such payments disrupt normal market processes. Really, RW, you would do well to at least consider the benefits of free market economies. I appreciate your bleeding heart, but the fact is that government does far more harm to the poor than the good it does. And the damage isn't isolated -- it is in everything government touches. The minimum wage kills jobs for the poor. Obamacare kills jobs for the poor. The worst places to live in the country are in public/rent controlled housing. And in fact, it is difficult to come up with a single example of government having helped the poor. OTOH, free enterprise has done more to get people out of poverty than anything government has ever done. Providing jobs, upward mobility, and the opportunity to create better lives for people and their children. It is really no contest, and I don't know why so many continue to think handouts are better than jobs. >> Yes their top execs, that are paid like rock stars, might make a little less. Once again, this is just not any of anyone's business but management.