Why does Wal-Mart not offer any incentives to employees?
Studies show that because US taxpayers are willing to pick up the tab with medicaid, subsidised housing and food stamps Wal-Mart can keep wages low. Even when employees do get health care they must pay about 40% of the premium which is double the national average. By accepting government aid packages/subsidies in three years from 1999 to 2001 it gained $50 million in aid packages to finance its own expansion and that was just in Florida. Nation wide about $1 billion in subsidies has been handed out to about 30% of their stores. So those inexpensive goods are not as they seem because every taxpayer is paying the hidden costs. It’s a case of giving away tax dollars to big business. The nations largest private employer dupes us all but it’s a free country and Wal-Mart knows the marketing business! Wal-Mart claims it has a competitive benefits package/fair employee wages and that anything to the contrary has been manipulated.
