The State of California is considering legislation that would fine
businesses $6,000 per employee who has to turn to Medical, the state's
version of Medicaid. The bill is especially targeted at WalMart, which
notoriously counsels its employees to use food stamps and other social
programs to make up for the shortfall between the wage it pays and the
minimum cost of staying alive:
The amount of the fine is no coincidence.
A report released last week by the Democratic staff of the U.S. House
Committee on Education and the Workforce, estimates that the cost of
Wal-Mart’s failure to adequately pay its employees could total about
$5,815 per employee each and every year of employment.
“Accurate and timely data on Wal-Mart’s wage and employment practices is
not always readily available. However, occasional releases of
demographic data from public assistance programs can provide useful
windows into the scope of taxpayer subsidization of Wal-Mart. After
analyzing data released by Wisconsin’s Medicaid program, the Democratic
staff of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce
estimates that a single 300- person Wal-Mart Supercenter store in
Wisconsin likely costs taxpayers at least $904,542 per year and could
cost taxpayers up to $1,744,590 per year – about $5,815 per employee.”
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