I understand your point of view. You've never met an expansion of state power you didn't like. I think you're wrong.
There's never been an expansion of state power that most people didn't wholeheartedly support.
I personally think seat belt laws are kind of dumb. But most people think they aren't.
Dude, you need to stop showing us pictures from your home album.
Here's the thing. I'd be all for changing welfare to workfare. But the reality is, there are very few able bodied Americans "on the dole". Most "welfare" goes to the elderly and children.
The real problem is, thanks to the Conservative Bullshit you love so much, people who HAVE jobs end up going on "Welfare" because companies that pay their Executives 8 figure like to cheat the guys who do that actual work.
so when you have a guy slaving away 35 hours a week for Walmart and he has to go on welfare and food stamps to make ends meet, and you are all so fine with this.
Yup, here you go...
Report: Walmart Workers Cost Taxpayers $6.2 Billion In Public Assistance
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.
“The study estimated the cost to Wisconsin’s taxpayers of Walmart’s low wages and benefits, which often force workers to rely on various public assistance programs,” reads the report,
available in full here.
“It found that a single Walmart Supercenter cost taxpayers between $904,542 and $1.75 million per year, or between $3,015 and $5,815 on average for each of 300 workers.”