This is fantastically wrong. Just imagine to what you would have to raise the minimum wage to disqualify an individual from any government assistance. And then imagine what that would do to the prices of the services those people provide. WalMart makes about $6k profit per US employee and if they gave all of it to the employees, the employees would still qualify for welfare. So what you’re actually talking about is making Walmart customers (mostly low income people) pay more for groceries. Taxpayers aren’t subsidizing Walmart; they’re subsidizing Walmart customers. You really sound like youd prefer the poor be poorer so long as the rich are less rich.