[teclordphrack2]

Why is that. I don't want my tax dollars going to welfare for their workers. I have skin in that game.

[JohnWhigham]

Why would governments magically stop subsidizing Amazon if their workers unionized?

[jdavis703]

There are plenty of reasons to support unions, but this sort of corporate welfare could be eliminated by increasing the minimum wage.

[gruez]

Paying people minimum wage is "corporate welfare"? How so?

[jdavis703]

Because the alternative is the taxpayer winds up paying for those workers’ healthcare, food and housing (Medicaid, SNAP and Section 8 vouchers).

[gruez]

You're forgetting the alternative where the person ends up getting unemployed instead, in which case the taxpayer pays 100% for those workers’ healthcare, food and housing.

[disposekinetics]

It isn't a binary, the question is the right representation as much as anything else.