Please don't shop at Wal-Mart - part 10

Actually this article (sent to me by Marilyn Bedford) is about a state that's gotten fed up with Wal-Mart's irresponsibility regarding health care for its workers. The article is by Kristen Wyatt and it's entitled, "Legislature Tells Wal-Mart to Boost Health Care". Here's part of what it says:

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Jan. 13) - Maryland has become the first state in the nation to require Wal-Mart to spend more on employee health care or pay the difference into the state's Medicaid fund. Similar laws may be coming elsewhere.

The measure approved Thursday requires companies with more than 10,000 Maryland employees to spend at least 8 percent of their payroll on employee health care or pay the difference into the state-supported Medicaid program. Of the state's large employers, only Wal-Mart spends less than 8 percent on health care.

Labor unions, who heavily pushed for the bill, said they would pursue similar legislation in at least 30 other states, focusing first on Colorado, Connecticut and Washington.

"The tide is turning because working people are not just fed up — they are ready to get active to set our country in a different direction, one state at a time," AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said in a statement.

Maryland's Democratic-controlled Legislature overrode a veto by Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlich.

Why aren't Republicans just as outraged as Democrats that Wal-Mart's policies cost the tax payer in Medicaid bills? Why should Wal-Mart be essentiallysubsidizedd by the state?