The most interesting thing I’ve seen recently in political messaging is the idea that WalMart costs taxpayers money by paying so little to their employees that they must seek public assistance to make ends meet.
While this messaging has the advantage of being true, it’s still something that no one was mentioning before.
With as many as 825,000 Walmart workers making less than $25,000 a year and a single Walmart store costing taxpayers nearly $1 million in public assistance, the need for change is clear. Taxpayers should not have to pick up the tab because Walmart refuses to pay workers a living wage.
Historically, I’d call this a conservative meme, but it is being picked up by progressive Democrats in a big way.
