If your worker's on food stamps, you failed — and the corporation owes the tab back™

The scoped ask, plain: if a person works full-time for your company and still needs food stamps to eat, the company failed — and the public quietly paid the difference. That's not a slogan; it's a documented pattern. A 2020 U.S. Government Accountability Office report found that in the states with data, a small number of very large employers — Walmart and McDonald's among the most-named — sat at the top of the list of employers whose workers rely on SNAP and Medicaid. Translation: the taxpayer tops up the paycheck the corporation won't, so a low wage isn't cheap — it's a bill mailed to the rest of us, a subsidy nobody calls a bailout. His framing, labeled his: that hidden subsidy is a back-tax the corporation owes back — to the homeless, to the food bank, to the public that covered its payroll. The fix is the floor, not a lecture (the minimum floor, not the minimum wage): if existing as a corporation means anything, it means the entity that can't go hungry shouldn't build its margin on workers who do. Kin: corporations own us, tax-the-ghosts, prisons-not-pools, the dignity floor. (Honest footing: the GAO finding is real public record [GAO, 2020 — verify the report before citing a figure]; “owes back taxes to the homeless” is his labeled moral framing, aimed party-blind at a business practice, not a claim about any company’s literal tax liability.) (His coin — machine’s read, refine to his.)