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do you also see, as the parent brought up with “… huge percentage of Walmart workers on gov food assistance.” and i’ll stick with walmart here for the sake of continuity, the other well know instance where walmart has a significant drain on local police departments. target brand stores, in the same neighborhoods don’t have this problem. target stores have significantly more people employed, which leads to a significant reduction in theft—would be thieves see an employee organizing, cleaning, stocking, etc… in just about every direction they look which discourages them from stealing. walmart just externalizes the cost onto the local police departments allowing walmart to bring in more profits. do you consider what the parent pointed out, intentionally hiring below poverty wages, and the externalizing basic business costs onto local, often small town, police to be “welfare leeching?” what about the companies who go out of their way to hire armies of accountants and lawyers to play games in order not to pay taxes? what about the companies who engage in wage theft? there has been a number of reputable studies which show that wage theft may absolutely dwarf other forms of theft such as shoplifting. if you consider these things leeching, then i think your point probably stands. but if one of those groups is not a leech, yet the other is, i don’t think your point stands at all. if you do consider the instances i brought up to be leeches, which do you think “leeches” more? companies across the board who go out of their way to avoid taxes, wage theft, and externalizing costs? or poor people on welfare? |