text: Yet, the Alaska legislature and government continues to provide large corporations with luxury tax credits and supplementing / supplanting labor costs for business.  How, by allowing business like WalMart, Target, and a raft of other businesses that pay the basic minimum wage, instead of a living wage, and limit the hours of employees to 30 hours or less.  Thus, aside from low wages, the ilk of these businesses avoid paying health care insurance benefits.
  Well, how is that you say?  Simple, by paying minimum wages and restricting full time pay for those who are paid above the minimum wage, these businesses place their employees in to the public assistance eligibility bucket, thus the supplementing / supplanting labor costs for businesses.  WalMart, Target, and other businesses employing more than 20 - 50 employees, are milking the system and taxpayers, in Alaska, by the billions, nationally, by the trillions. The cost of public assistance is borne by taxpayers and burdens governments.