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originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Vector99
If a business runs with a profit margin, they are improperly using payroll funds
If the business ran at a zero profit level it wouldn't be a subsidy. If a business runs with a profit margin, they are improperly using payroll funds, requiring me to pay taxes to supplement the lack of individual income to not be in poverty.
I know what you said. Do you?
is what I said.
pay taxes to supplement the lack of individual income to not be in poverty.
I see that it provides subsidies to people. I don't see the part about reimbursing employers. I don't see the part about tax breaks to employers. That's what subsidies are.
SNAP offers nutrition assistance to millions of eligible, low-income individuals and families and provides economic benefits to communities.
originally posted by: Phage
I see that it provides subsidies to people. I don't see the part about reimbursing employers. I don't see the part about tax breaks to employers. That's what subsidies are.
So, you think that the business should be buying food for its employees, paying their rent, as a business expense?
It allows employers to keep money the government gives an individual to SUPPLEMENT their LACK of income.
No, they don't benefit from SNAP. Their employees do, if they qualify. SNAP is not an employer subsidy. It is a person subsidy.
I neither pay minimum wage nor benefit from SNAP. Other employers do.
Yes. I know that. What's your point.
Do you know that those who DON'T pay minimum wage pay those same taxes?
originally posted by: Vector99
originally posted by: Phage
I see that it provides subsidies to people. I don't see the part about reimbursing employers. I don't see the part about tax breaks to employers. That's what subsidies are.
If the employer paid enough to break the poverty line, SNAP wouldn't exist. Getting it yet?
Would an assistance program exist for them? I sure hope so, but it wouldn't be the same as SNAP.
Working for low wages or working part-time;
Unemployed;
Receiving welfare or other public assistance payments;
Elderly or disabled and are low-income; or
Homeless.
If full-time minimum work paid above the poverty line we could do away with assistance programs for the employed.
You think they're getting more than that now? You think SNAP is providing more than they need?
We then could focus efforts on employing the unemployed by providing ONLY the basics for survival, nothing more.
originally posted by: Phage
You think they're getting more than that now? You think SNAP is providing more than they need?
Sure. If they only want to eat for half the month.
People on SNAP can afford steak dinners.