if walmart paid a living wage

[dellinger63]

If WalMart employees would have worked harder and been more responsible when they were in school, they wouldn't be forced to work at WalMart or some other menial job requiring little to no skills and would have a job that paid a living wage.

For heaven's sake the greeter at my WalMart can't get out of a chair and manages a 'welcome to WalMart' every 3rd customer. And she deserves a raise?

You want to give them more money, do it out your own pocket. Or organize such an effort.

BTW if 1.4% is such an insignificant number might I suggest the Federal Government give a 1.4% rebate, across the board on this year's personal income tax collected. What do you suppose $40 billion infused into the economy would do as opposed to taking an extra 1.4% from every WalMart shopper including seniors buying their drugs.

I'm not sure what your personal peeve is with WalMart but it's not just the Walton family and upper management that is making money. It's also their shareholders including most pension, education and diversified mutual funds. What do you suppose an arbitrary 1.4% raise in prices at the register would do to its stock price?