The corporation rips off its huge workforce by paying poverty - TopicsExpress

The corporation rips off its huge workforce by paying poverty wages and no benefits, then directs the workers to the food stamp office and other government-funded safety-net programs. Neat, huh? A major chunk of the chains cost-of-doing-business disappears from the corporate books and – shazam! – reappears on the governments books. In fact, the National Employment Law Project reports that McDonalds phenomenal $1.5 billion profit is bloated by an estimated $1.2 billion that we taxpayers will shell out this year to support its predatory wage-and-benefit policy. Arent you lovin it, as the chains ads say? But the golden arches are not alone in this fast-food flimflam. The conglomerate owner of KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken), Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell duns us for $648 million to underwrite its poverty pay. Subway burrows into us for $436 million. Burger King, (a British outfit) taps us for $356 million, little sweet Wendys grabs more than a quarter-billion bucks from us, and Dunkin Donuts dips into our pockets for $274 million. And look here – its Dominos pizza, whose extremist right-wing owner says he hates government spending. But hes picking taxpayers pockets to the tune of $126 million to subsidize his free enterprise. These corporate powers piously preach about the magic of the marketplace, but as these facts reveal, magicians dont do magic – they perform illusions.