How many bad apples will it take before you need to get a different barrel?


Walmart is also under pressure in Maryland, of all places. A law dubbed the "Wal-Mart Bill" is progressing in the Maryland General Assembly. This would require any company which has over 10,000 workers in Maryland to spend at least 8% of its payroll on health care benefits for its employees or put the difference into the state Medicaid fund.

In Maryland now, Walmart is the only firm that fits the bill.


Now I wonder why such a law would be necesssary?

Unless just possibly there is something to the charge that Walmart systematically underpays its lower-paid workers and provides such abysmal health care that it has to be forced to do what it should already be doing.

It doesn't have to be this way. In an earlier thread I detailed the contrast on health insurance and pay between Costco and Walmart.

If the shoe were on the other foot, "Martin", you might feel differently.