Note to radio clown Rush Limbaugh: call Idaho’s Republican Speaker of the House Bruce Newcomb, he thinks you’ve got the government-sanctioned rape concept all wrong. What does the conservative Newcomb think of the Bentonville Behemoth’s sucking at the public teat to subsidize the health care of it’s workers?

From Salon’s Andrew Leonard:

[Wal-Mart] is eating everybody else alive. They come in and suck the town dry. I resent that.

Wal-Mart’s blowing people out of the water, and if they’re doing that by having the public sector subsidize their health care, that’s wrong. That’s really wrong.

Rather than taxpayers subsidizing the wealthiest family in the world, maybe the wealthiest family in the world ought to reimburse Medicaid.

Newcomb has asked the Idaho Dept. of Health & Welfare to conduct a study similar to one completed in Georgia in 2002, which found that for every four Wal-Mart workers, one dependent child was enrolled in the state health care program. According to a news report this week, Newcomb says the research will be completed soon, but no legislation is likely this session.

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