SYLVIA CHASE, CORRESPONDENT: Wal-Mart is the nation's biggest retailer and its biggest grocer too, but there's evidence the low prices come - in part - at government expense… that the corporation shifts financial burdens to taxpayers. Health care is one of them. Consider this contrast: Unionized supermarket workers pay little or nothing for their health plans and have an average hourly wage of $10.35 per hour. Wal-Mart workers earn about 25% less… a reported $8.23 per hour.

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SYLVIA CHASE: The taxpayers are apparently taking care of a lot of Wal-Mart workers. According to the Institute for Labor and Employment at the University of California/Berkeley, in 2002, Wal-Mart workers in California relied on 50% more taxpayer funded health care per employee than those at other large retail companies. Put another way, taxpayers subsidized $20.5-million-worth-of medical care for Wal-Mart in California alone.

I think Wal Mart is the largest employer in the US as well. The Walton family, billionaire scum.