Some of the most profitable corporations in America pay so little that their own full-time workers qualify for Medicaid, SNAP, and housing assistance. Taxpayers make up the difference. That isn’t a safety net for workers. It’s a subsidy for the employer, who books the savings as profit while the public covers the groceries, the rent, and the doctor’s visits. A company that can afford to buy back its own stock can afford to pay its people enough to live on. Support a tax on large corporations whose workforce depends on public assistance, with the revenue going to the programs those workers rely on. Then the choice is simple: raise wages or pay for the cost of not doing it.
Some of the most profitable corporations in America pay so little that their own full-time workers qualify for Medicaid, SNAP, and housing assistance. Taxpayers make up the difference. That isn’t a safety net for workers. It’s a subsidy for the employer, who books the savings as profit while the public covers the groceries, the rent, and the doctor’s visits. A company that can afford to buy back its own stock can afford to pay its people enough to live on. Support a tax on large corporations whose workforce depends on public assistance, with the revenue going to the programs those workers rely on. Then the choice is simple: raise wages or pay for the cost of not doing it.
