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6. The hidden cost of low prices

Wed Mar 4, 2026, 11:30 AM

14 hrs ago

Our tax dollars are subsidizing this nonsense. Corporations are the real welfare queens but our controlled media will never frame it like that.

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Workers at top 20 US low-wage firms rely on public assistance, report says [View all] marmar 15 hrs ago OP

Meanwhile, the CxOs make out like bandits RainCaster 15 hrs ago #1

I was surprised to see Costco at #5 on the list. Borogove 15 hrs ago #2

Taxpayers subsidize CEO compensation UpInArms 14 hrs ago #4

USA! USA! USA! leftstreet 14 hrs ago #5

The hidden cost of low prices MaineBlueBear 14 hrs ago #6

This is a core Dem issue being sold badly, imo gulliver 13 hrs ago #7

One of the reasons unions matter dlk 4 hrs ago #8