tunnels, airports, etc. more than someone making $30K a year.



Ah, those corporate welfare cheats.

Walmart’s low-wage workers cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $6.2 billion in public assistance including food stamps, Medicaid and subsidized housing, according to a report published to coincide with Tax Day, April 15.

Americans for Tax Fairness, a coalition of 400 national and state-level progressive groups, made this estimate using data from a 2013 study by Democratic Staff of the U.S. Committee on Education and the Workforce.

On the other side of the coin is Walmart’s huge share of the nationwide SNAP, or food stamp, market. “Walmart told analysts last year that the company has captured 18 percent of the SNAP market,” it reads. “Using that figure, we estimate that the company accounted for $13.5 billion out of $76 billion in food stamp sales in 2013.”

Digusting.

they get $13 billion in SNAP money, and probably pay zero tax on that.

We all know that Walmart avoids paying gas tax, car registration fees and all other fees that are designated for fixing roads and infrastructure.

If anything the extra money would more likely be used to buy more bombs, fund rebel groups in countries we dont like or even used to fund other companies tax holiday policies like we did for the big bans after the economic collapse.

I am not trying to defend walmart but the idea that this money many of which were probably made from oversea stores would be used mainly in infrastructure repair/upgrade is just absurd.

However, now that you've raised the issue, I assume that it would be used the same way taxes from someone making 30K a year are used.

basically $76 billion hidden in bank accounts instead of actual tangible "assets". I would love to hear from a politician his explanation of why this is a good thing for America.

Probably shell companies that own assets, some liquid and some real, in yet other countries. Look at the profit from Luxembourg vs the likely amount of assets owned there.

Let them process all the waste produced by their packages and shoddy products; the sewage generated by their customers.

Let them create their own security force to prevent hijackings and control crime on their property.

Do they own the atmosphere their trucks are spewing into?

Do they have their own private fire-fighting force?

Most of their stores are built using "tax-increment" funding. This is a deal, usually worked out with local and state governments, where Walmart finances the building and land by keeping sales tax receipts of the store until the cost is recovered.

It's called Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!, but it's really Steal! Steal! Steal!

know what they look like), and i hear my elderly Aunt and mother-in-law telling me how cheap the prices are there. Even when I tell them or show them what we pay for things elsewhere.

This type of corporate behavior brings us all down, and some of us don't even see the problem.

I mean the way they treat their workers, they'd want to be better corporate citizens.

But on second thought, having 76 billion in overseas tax havens is in line with their character — you know, who cares about the country, they're not about paying their fair share of taxes.

Nice going there Walton siblings, greed looks good on you (my sarcasm gif should be here — not working).

Repugnant and criminal. I have no doubt this is common practice with corporations. Pay the best CEO's and lawyers tons of money to find ways to cheat. And more appalling, is the right wing corporate puppets always screaming about "government", at the same time protecting this kind of vulgarity.

got a job at Walmart 6 years ago. It's part time, but she does work about 30 hrs/week. She started at $9/hr six years ago and is now up to a whopping $9.50. She enjoys her co workers and customers, and says the manager is a good person who actually tries not to screw everyone, but, she says, company policies suck.
She shops elsewhere. She says she does enough for Walmart working for low wages while ringing up thousands of dollars per hour on the cash register.

And just say no to a tax holiday to bring home these earnings which were Ccumulated by gaming the system

Take away all incentives, and actually penalize, the corps that play these games

Maybe DOJ just handles soccer corruption

ago in the USA. Drives small local stores out of business.

heck, Apple's $60B stock buyback would fill in SF-LA already once you stick it into bonds

copious tears as his dream is becoming a nightmare of greed on the part of his children, who are enjoying the empire he built with none of the love of country and responsibility to it, that he embodied.