There are a lot of reports coming out that are BS, but passed on as fact. Here is an example of a USA Today published a piece that is complete garbage, but everyone accepts as fact because there was a study done and the study said so.
This particular study claimed there was some insane amount of money wal-mart employees were getting from the government to subsidize their income.
"USA Today's editors apparently didn't bother to look into that ATF report before publishing this piece, so we did. The ATF — a coalition of union and liberal advocacy groups — based its findings on a 2013 report written by Democrats on the House Education and the Workforce Committee. In other words, none of these sources is objective by any means.
House Democrats based their findings on data from one state — Wisconsin. They found that 3,216 Wal-Mart workers were enrolled in the state's Medicaid program. Based on this number, the report calculates that a Wal-Mart Supercenter cost taxpayers between $904,542 and $1.7 million a year.
To get that number, Democrats assumed that everyone enrolled in Medicaid is also enrolled in every other public program available for low-income families — including food stamps, subsidized housing, child care subsidies, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and more — which accounted for 72% of the supposed taxpayer costs.
Plus, the report admits that "extrapolating taxpayer costs for Wal-Mart stores in other states based on the Wisconsin data is difficult" in large part because the state had looser rules for who could enroll in Medicaid.
No matter. Americans for Tax Fairness simply took this already grossly inflated number and applied it to the rest of the nation. And voila, it came up with its $6.2 billion "Wal-Mart Tax."
http://www.investors.com/politics/ed...rts-low-wages/