Apparently, the republicans are hiding a very dark secret. It’s also rather easy. Republicans ensure that big, multinational companies like McDonald’s may pay millions of workers in retail, fast food, and banking poverty wages, allowing these firms to generate billions of dollars in profit. Republicans ensure that these workers’ families can continue to earn those wages by providing them with access to assistance programs such as food stamps. McDonald’s workers get billions of dollars in benefits each year in the form of food stamps, medicaid, and section 8 housing vouchers. In fact, so many McDonald’s workers depend on government help that the company established an entire division inside its human resources department called mcresource just to assist in putting them in touch with aid programs. Mcconsider that. There are McDonald’s staff whose primary responsibility is to enroll workers in assistance programs. How bizarre is the retirement celebration for the gold watch? I’m joking. Very few employees at McDonald’s will ever retire. The shady, perverted aspect of this facade is that Republicans veto any legislation meant to increase the minimum wage to a point where it may lessen the financial strain that corporate assistance is putting on taxpayers. Republicans justify this low pay by claiming that these are entry-level positions that you take while pursuing higher education. then you ought to get an improved item. However, some who work in fast food struggle just to make ends meet, much alone pursue the education required to become independent. They have trouble finding daycare for their children. They get standard medical treatment in the emergency department. Their transit isn’t always dependable. Nobody is assisting their children with their schoolwork while they work at night. Naturally, they consume a lot of fast food. The sad thing is that they lack the time, means, and ability to lift their kids out of poverty. The fact that this system is ensnaring the next generation in the welfare system is what is most abhorrent. It’s typical for them. Am I exaggerating too much? Let’s examine the renowned American working family, which is a married couple with two children, for the sake of this discussion. This is the model that republicans seem to support so ardently. Let’s pretend they are Los Angeles residents. Here, the average rent is $1,435. If you earn the $8.00/hour minimum wage, it makes up 107% of your working year; but, if you make the Los Angeles poverty rate of $10.60/hour, it only makes up 81% of your working year. Come on, let’s act. Assume that workers at McDonald’s or Walmart are paid $12 per hour. I know, it’s absurd. Please be patient with me. If both parents worked full-time at the fictitious $12 per hour, their combined income would be $3,840 (before taxes). After deducting rent and taxing at a meager 8%, the households are left with $2,097. Now deduct gas, water, electricity, and telephones. This four-person family’s daily budget is reduced to about $50 in order to pay for food, clothing, and medical treatment. Remember to factor in transportation. I understand your thoughts. They would get section 8 housing as a government subsidy, so they would never really have to pay all that rent. They wouldn’t have to worry about healthcare since they would most likely be receiving medicaid. You, the taxpayer, would be footing the bill for their gas and electricity, and you would rather not. and that was an exaggerated case. Actually, they are paid minimum pay. that’s $16–17,000 year in an area where the average annual rent is $17,200. There is an error in this math. For this individual to live, they must get welfare. We do sometimes need to support certain sectors because of the benefits such businesses provide to our community. What benefit do these hidden welfare payments that Republicans are clamoring for genuinely provide to our society, then? Consider fast food. No, please. All it brings us is diabetes, fat, and hypertension; please remove it from my area. It doesn’t encourage eating well or provide employment that would benefit the families in my neighborhood. Consider Target and Walmart. No, please remove these. They displace decent middle class manufacturing employment in the US while taking advantage of desperate labor markets elsewhere. And what benefit does it provide my family in return for those jobs that are lost? My neighbors get a retail job that takes away from their Thanksgiving, I get to purchase my kids some lead-infused toys for a few dollars cheaper, and all the profits go into the wallets of a CEO who will start slashing hours soon they have to give my neighbor with any kind of healthcare plan. The American ideal is being severely undermined by the republicans’ opposition to a livable wage. It is generating a permanent underclass whose subsistence depends on the state. and you’re losing money on it. We need a livable wage based on a sliding scale so that, at the very least, no more than 50% of your take-home income is allocated to the typical rent in your area. That’s fifteen dollars an hour here in Los Angeles. We wouldn’t have to massively support these companies, but a family of four would still be eligible for food assistance. In light of that, I believe that our president’s proposal for a raise to $10.10 an hour is, at worst, somewhat acceptable, and the welfare republicans should have little issue accepting a rise to at least that amount. Even if they agreed to $10.10, the Republicans would still be welfare Republicans defending the profits of large businesses, but at least the workers would be accorded some respect. With that suggested increase, he is more than halfway there. In actuality, however, the GOP’s purported endorsement of free market ideas is undermined by maintaining a system that permits companies to pay Americans a salary that necessitates outside assistance from the government and ultimately reduces families to a life of forced labor.
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