Don't get me wrong, I am the first to say that employers often underpay workers, but the idea that tax payers subsidize employers is misleading. Food stamps help people, not companies. Without food stamps, people would get paid even less. https://www.salon.com/2020/12/12/government-study-shows-taxpayers-are-subsidizing-starvation-wages-at-mcdonalds-walmart/

The key thing is that an income floor helps people make higher wages, because aggregate labor supply decreases and/or people can strike a better bargain with a higher outside option (see the recent work by @annastansbury).

Hungry people get paid starvation wages. Decreasing hunger increases wages.

Now there is a twist to this in that some programs like the EITC subsidize wages and therefore can in fact lower wages, as @rothstein_jesse explains in his review of the evidence on EITC.

By contrast, income support programs that are not tied to wages such as a universal #basicincome can increase wages by increasing workers' outside option.

Here’s a great explainer covering similar ground: https://twitter.com/gburtless/status/1338502568343982080