Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation's largest private employer, is scaling back health care coverage for future part-time workers while raising premiums for many of its full-time workers, particularly tobacco users.Doesn't Walmart rank #1 of fortune 500 companies in revenues this year? Naturally the Republican Party and Tea Party back a company so engrossed by the "success" of free market principles - but can Walmart live up to their own standards?
It seems like lines at Walmart are just getting longer and fewer employees are behind registers. Hell, have you ever tried to buy paint at Walmart? Tallahassee is a great example, just walk up to the paint counter of any of Tally's branches - particularly the parkay and NE cap circle - and see (no one) for yourself.
You would think by the standards of free market principles that a successful business would thereby hire more people - or at least maintain employee benefits instead of that whole profiteering thing.
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