if they can t survive in a free market system, perhaps a different business should take their place. one of the things we ve seen. when you look at earning projections from wall street analysts for walmart, for instance. things like the 5 billion dollar food stamp cut shows up in what wall street analysts say about the profitability of walmart, so much of walmart s revenue is coming from food stamp money and other government subsidies to low wage workers. exactly. if you take the case of walmart, the studies have been done show that you could walmart could accommodate a $12 an hour minimum wage by simply raising their prices 1.1% one time. the average walmart shopper would pay an extra $12 per year, and that would allow walmart to cover the costs of an extra $12 an hour minimum wage. i think a higher minimum wage makes much more sense for america, and gets us back to where we were in the late 1960s
what to pay their workers. how many of those business owners are saying that we should cut social welfare spending that the taxpayer is providing. none of them. they would view that as heartless. they re willing to give away other people s money, but not their own. they should pay their own workers. if they can t survive in a free market system, perhaps a different business should take their place. one of the things we ve seen. when you look at earning projections from wall street analysts for walmart, for instance. things like the 5 billion dollar food stamp cut shows up in what wall street analysts say about the profitability of walmart, so much of walmart s revenue is coming from food stamp money and other government subsidies to low wage workers. exactly. if you take the case of walmart, the studies have been done show that you could walmart could accommodate a $12 an hour minimum wage by simply raising their prices 1.1% one time. the average walmart shopper would pay an ex
minnesota about this the other night at the state of the union. this is what she had to say. the compromise is really based on a very specific provision that affects only 16 states and it s how they leverage their heating money, their food stamp money and doesn t affect most the people in this country in any way. what s your response to that? you know, it affects 850,000 people. and it takes on average about $90 out of their pockets a month. i would suggest that the people affected will think differently of amy klobuchar and whether or not it s not a big deal. it s a very big deal. especially this comes out of the program, a program that actually if you are enrolled in it, you get assistance for heating. if you had as little as $1, you got additional funding for food stamps. and they change that now to $20. so there are a lot of people who now are going it have to really choose between heating their homes, and it s cold right now. right. that s what it is. that s what it s
night at the state of the union. this is what she had to say. the compromise is really based on a very specific provision that affects only 16 states and it s how they leverage their heating money, their food stamp money and doesn t affect most the people in this country in any way. what s your response to that? you know, it affects 850,000 people. and it takes on average about $90 out of their pockets a month. i would suggest that the people affected will think differently of amy klobuchar and whether or not it s not a big deal. it s a very big deal. especially this comes out of the program, a program that actually if you are enrolled in it, you get assistance for heating. if you had as little as $1, you got additional funding for food stamps. and they change that now to $20. so there are a lot of people who now are going it have to really choose between heating their homes, and it s cold right now. right. that s what it is.
night at the state of the union. this is what she had to say. the compromise is really based on a very specific provision that affects only 16 states and it s how they leverage their heating money, their food stamp money and doesn t affect most the people in this country in any way. what s your response to that? you know, it affects 850,000 people. and it takes on average about $90 out of their pockets a month. i would suggest that the people affected will think differently of amy klobuchar and whether or not it s not a big deal. it s a very big deal. especially this comes out of the program, a program that actually if you are enrolled in it, you get assistance for heating. if you had as little as $1, you got additional funding for food stamps. and they change that now to $20. so there are a lot of people who now are going it have to really choose between heating their homes, and it s cold right now. right.