Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, isn't one to mince words when it comes to corporate greed. On Wednesday, the presidential candidate attended a Walmart shareholders meeting and blasted the company's leadership for supposedly paying “starvation wages,” as well as for its allegedly “grotesque” greed.
Now, as my colleague Tom Rogan has already observed, Sanders' attacks on Walmart are exaggerated and largely unfounded. The company employs millions of people at well above minimum wage, and it does a public service in making so many goods so affordable. Yet, the biggest problem with Sanders' war against Walmart isn't that his criticisms are off-base; it's that the senator's socialist solutions are far worse. As history should have taught us by this time, they would destroy the blue-collar workers he claims to be fighting for.
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