America Winning Under Trump

[Rightguide]

The demand for crow is big this morning on the left:


Wal-Mart Raises U.S. Hourly Wage to $11 in Wake of Tax Overhaul
By Matthew Boyle
January 11, 2018, 5:01 AM PST

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is boosting its starting hourly wage to $11 and delivering bonuses to employees, capitalizing on the U.S. tax overhaul to stay competitive in a tightening labor market.

The increase takes effect next month and will cost $300 million on top of wage hikes that were already planned, the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer said Thursday. The one-time bonus of up to $1,000 is based on seniority and will amount to an additional $400 million. The company is also expanding its maternity and parental leave policy and adding an adoption benefit.

“Tax reform gives us the opportunity to be more competitive globally and to accelerate plans for the U.S.,” Chief Executive Officer Doug McMillon said in the statement.

Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, has fought in recent years to improve its image in the U.S., as it weathered criticism over its treatment of employees. With the wage increase and bonus payment, the world’s biggest retailer seeks to even its pay gap with resurgent rival Target Corp., while simultaneously sending a high-profile thank you to the U.S. government for slashing the corporate tax rate.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...u-s-hourly-wage-to-11-in-wake-of-tax-overhaul

 

[Luk]

STFU, vettebitch

Corporate America Celebrated Tax Cuts by Laying Off Workers

Don't let a twisted and dishonest PR scheme by massive companies grateful for Trump's huge Christmas present distort the truth.

Last week, Donald Trump appeared remotely on two giant monitors before the White House press corps to personally thank corporate America. “The historic tax cut I signed into law… is already delivering major economic gains,” the president boasted, ticking off a series of announcements from big business about one-time bonuses, 401(k) contributions, workforce and infrastructure investments, and even higher wages. “I want to thank all of the companies that worked so hard to do it.”

Could it be that all the naysayers, the economists and advocates and experts who expected Trump’s massive corporate tax cut to quickly get funneled into the pockets of the rich, were wrong? Will the tax cut really spur the kind of economic activity that will boost jobs and wages and lift up the ordinary worker?

No. But this may end up being the most aggressive corporate public relations scheme we’ve seen in America since a bunch of movie studios got together during the Great Depression to run attack ads smearing Upton Sinclair’s progressive campaign for governor of California. The money flowing to workers in these announcements are like a nickel in a tin can compared to the bounty rushing into corporate treasuries. In many cases, they seem to have been pre-planned prior to the tax bill, done to reap a tax write-off, or announced to mask layoffs elsewhere in the business.​

But Comcast and AT&T in particular serve as the poster children for dishonesty in this matter. Because around the same time that they made a big show of rewarding employees with bonuses, both companies quietly engaged in layoffs. Comcast fired 500 members of its sales department before Christmas, and AT&T is eliminating “thousands” of jobs, according to its union, the Communications Workers of America. “We believe there's more than 4,000 people AT&T has (notified of layoffs) across the country,” Larry Robbins, vice president of CWA Local 4900, told the Indianapolis Daily Star.

https://i.imgur.com/u4r96AL.png?1

 

[Rightguide]

The largest employer in the United States (2.2 million employees) raising their minimum wage and passing out bonuses as a result of the Trump tax policy has to complicate the stupid narrative of the mentally challenged left.

 

[JohnnySavage]

The master deal maker just gave us the largest trade deficit in 7 years.

 

[Luk]

The largest employer in the United States (2.2 million employees) raising their minimum wage and passing out bonuses as a result of the Trump tax policy has to complicate the stupid narrative of the mentally challenged left.

Mentally challenged, you say?

https://i.imgur.com/ZfvDF6a.jpg

 

[Luk]

The largest employer in the United States (2.2 million employees) raising their minimum wage and passing out bonuses as a result of the Trump tax policy has to complicate the stupid narrative of the mentally challenged left.

Mentally challenged, you say?

https://i.imgur.com/u4r96AL.png?1

 

[Luk]

The largest employer in the United States (2.2 million employees) raising their minimum wage and passing out bonuses as a result of the Trump tax policy has to complicate the stupid narrative of the mentally challenged left.

Mentally challenged, you say?

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=735729

Originally Posted by vetteman
But you know the truth right?

If you believe he would take 3,000 people, 34 ships, a destroyer and $200 million a day, you're a fool. Oh, wait, you're a birther.

Originally Posted by vetteman
Like they would have any kind of a fucking clue as to When, who, what, how many, and how much.

You just blew up your own article with that post. You realize that right?

 

[PollDancer]

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/americandream/images/total_war.jpg

 

[Rightguide]

The master deal maker just gave us the largest trade deficit in 7 years.

All that means Johnny is that we send out less to get more in return. Do you like paying more to get less? Milton Friedman explains:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv5SiQpG6sg

 

[Rightguide]

I can see my dog whistle must have been switched to "bitch" judging by the number of times a particular bitch showed up.

 

[Luk]

I can see my dog whistle must have been switched to "bitch" judging by the number of times a particular bitch showed up.

It's true! I totally drop truth bombs on your idiotic posts. It's fun!

 

[chillywilly2]

All that means Johnny is that we send out less to get more in return. Do you like paying more to get less? Milton Friedman explains:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv5SiQpG6sg

Actually, he is fixing that...by putting duties on Canadian softwood lumber you will pay more for a house, duties on planes from Bombardier and just lately duties on newsprint.

Even Canada can make it cheaper than you

 

[Luk]

Actually, he is fixing that...by putting duties on Canadian softwood lumber you will pay more for a house, duties on planes from Bombardier and just lately duties on newsprint.

Even Canada can make it cheaper than you

You know it's going badly for Rightguide when a Canuck schools him.

 

[Rightguide]

Actually, he is fixing that...by putting duties on Canadian softwood lumber you will pay more for a house, duties on planes from Bombardier and just lately duties on newsprint.

Even Canada can make it cheaper than you

Tariffs are evil but a reality in the world of trade. Canadians aren't regulated to death like American lumber companies either.

 

[jaF0]

The demand for crow is big this morning

Shaddup BB.

Only a w(R)ong would tout a slave company.

 

[Rightguide]

Shaddup BB.

Only a w(R)ong would tout a slave company.

You have to be one of the dumbest clowns on Lit. Your economic acumen is hysterically set on zero.

 

[chillywilly2]

Tariffs are evil but a reality in the world of trade. Canadians aren't regulated to death like American lumber companies either.

With a free trade agreement there are no tariffs.
Just because we can produce something cheaper than the US they have to cry like babies. Americans are regulated because if they weren't they would destroy the resource for a few dollars

 

[Rightguide]

With a free trade agreement there are no tariffs.
Just because we can produce something cheaper than the US they have to cry like babies. Americans are regulated because if they weren't they would destroy the resource for a few dollars

BS, there are more trees in the US now than there were at the turn of the 20th Century.

 

[chillywilly2]

BS, there are more trees in the US now than there were at the turn of the 20th Century.

That sounds kinda funny but whatever.

You should do something about the regulation then because you are being hosed.

From what I heard the lumber mostly comes from private land and the landowners want a bunch for the trees whereas in Canada its public land and we just don't rape people for a few feet of lumber, we manage the resource.

 

[Rightguide]

That sounds kinda funny but whatever.

You should do something about the regulation then because you are being hosed.

From what I heard the lumber mostly comes from private land and the landowners want a bunch for the trees whereas in Canada its public land and we just don't rape people for a few feet of lumber, we manage the resource.

We have some of the best managed forestry in the world and presently producing 30 billion board feet of lumber a year. You won't even come close to that number.

 

[chillywilly2]

We have some of the best managed forestry in the world and presently producing 30 billion board feet of lumber a year. You won't even come close to that number.

Don't want to...we just want to sell a bit without paying duties on it and have you follow the agreement you signed...but, whatever...at least you have the Donald to look up to

 

[phrodeau]

In whose world is $11/hr a competitive wage?

 

[pointless]

i like how they calculated the yearly wage based on a forty hour work week. that was cute. i mean, i've worked at walmart and stores like it, so, yeah, fuck that nonsense. 40 hour work weeks were a rare thing.

the fuckers.

 

[BeeZeBody]

In whose world is $11/hr a competitive wage?

so let em quit and become ballplayers of movie stars n make millions

 

[pointless]

ballplayers of movie stars.

fucking ballplayers of movie stars.