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Remember, the USA was one of the few countries to vote against food being a human right.
Corporations like WalMart have a long, long history of placing downward pressure on wages and forcing employees onto government assistance programs.%20and%20Target%20(302).)
It’s more widespread now thanks to the refusal of corporations and their owned politicians to allow any increase to the federal minimum wage.
It's such a fucking scam. Not only do they rely on the government to subsidize the wages of their employees, but they also then turn around and spend that money at Walmart.
@prole
The reason for the second half of that should be pretty obvious... Walmart tends to have lower prices thus allowing their employees to buy more, yes it is usually cheaper, in both meanings of the term, but it is what they can afford on their shit pay.
Yeah no shit, and? It's still a scam and they're still basically subsidized with my tax dollars.
@prole
My point is that Walmart employees really have no choice but to spend their money at Walmart. Your previous statement was implying that Walmart employees were complicit in the scam.
I implied no such thing
A CEO shouldn’t have to stay up late experiencing every parent’s worst nightmare: wondering how will he be able to feed his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson white truffles at every meal he ever eats, freshly grated by one of his twelve nannies, even when he is well into his thirties.
Good opportunity to remind you that many employers offer donation matching for nonprofits. So right now donating money to food banks not only helps those in need, but also forces our corporate overlords to!
You're just giving them free tax credits
Under this administration it actually makes sense to directly donate (and make your corpo trash match). Since the government can’t be trusted to use the tax revenue for any good at all.
Unlike trustworthy corporations
I suppose if you work for one of the places supplying ICE, prisons, or the military you should feel bad and stop. Or do the incompetent dance to gum shit up.
But none of the work I do helps any of that.
If they say they match donations and aren’t, check with your charity and say something.
But why involve them at all? Why assume they are even acting in good faith?
Because in this thread it’s assumed you already work for a company that matches your donation to charities. So if you have a charity you feel is importance to support, your contribution will be twice as big, it makes sense to support your charity more.
Yes it gives the company for work for a tax deduction, but currently federal taxe revenue is being abused to hurt people and withheld from programs that help them.
Unlike how corporations behave
Oh well in that case I’d better not let them give any money to the poor at all.
I mean, you probably shouldn't. Donate the money yourself or trough charities or in countless other ways.
They literally farm these tax credits from customers to pad their bottom line. You can bet that they are also playing tax and accounting games with the "donations" they make and who they make them to, likely further enriching a lot of their pals before the poor see a dime of it.