$904, 542

This is the amount we, as taxpayers, subsidize each and every Wal-Mart each year thanks to their low wages and scarcity of employee benefits, according to a recent House Committee on Education and the Workforce report.  Note that this dollar amount represents the low end of the subsidy--it could be as much as $1.7 million.  Per store.

Isn't it a bit rich that at a time when so many are complaining of an entitlement culture here in America, of a dependency on the government, that we have a corporation in which its unbridled sucking at the government teat (to borrow a phrase) makes welfare queens look like the children of Bangladesh.

Capitalism, indeed.

Peace,
emaycee