Consider that the working people who turn to food stamps to supplement inadequate wages are demonized as society’s lazy “takers”—a young Wal-Mart employee who enrolled in food stamps to help support his pregnant partner told Marketplace that previously “I’d always considered people who use food stamps as just taking advantage of the government.” Yet the company itself continues to be seen as a paragon of free enterprise, notwithstanding the tens of billions of dollars in subsidies through the same program.
Food Stamps Don’t Keep Wal-Mart’s Prices Low, They Keep Its Profits High

Source: prospect.org

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