How Mcdonald's & Wal - Mart became welfare queens

we've been talking for a while Lewis about mcdonald's and other large corporations that pretend to be self sufficient drivers if the economy when actually being wrist huge recipient to federal aid and Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg dot com rodin awesome article called how McDonald's and wal-mart became welfare queens and it quantifies so much of what we've been talking about it talks about how mcdonald's and American up fast food workers receive more than $7 billion dollars in public assistance Walmart alone is the nation's largest private sector employer and the biggest consumer of taxpayer-supported aid which is just unbelievable on average each Walmart associate is paid so little that they receive a thousand dollars in public assistance the ruses up Lewis we know that it is a joke that these big corporations are simply adding to the economy they're taking away huge amount in federal aid because over the horrible wages and and situations that they put their employees in yeah and you know what their prices aren't even that great to be perfectly honest abe there's no way would even out I clearly it's it's totally destructive some solutions increase the minimum wage that's the most most likely to happen the next proposal that berry writes about his charge back the amount of public assistance to the company just as a straight up fine you gotta pay back the amount of public assistance we give your employees and the most radical one that will never passes guarantee everybody in america a minimum salary that's being discussed in Switzerland probably not going to happen here