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To: Durus
You're the one who is in denial of fundamental market economics.
In a competitive marketplace, price is determined by supply and demand.
Companies are totally incapable of "imbedding" anything into their price to "pass along" to the customer.
Sometimes they earn a profit, sometimes they don't.
When they do earn a profit, the government confiscates a portion of it as a tax, AFTER the sale has already taken place. There is no way the company could know what their tax obligation would be beforehand because market pricing does not guarantee a profit will be made.

It isn't rocket science, but it sure is a mystery to you marxists.

92 posted on 09/28/2004 1:41:44 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Willie Green
For a guy who complains about name calling you sure do throw names around.

Price is determined by supply and demand. Profit equals the price of the product minus the cost of the product. A company can not make products and sell them for less then the cost of making them, which includes taxes, and still stay in business. That isn't marxism, that is capitalism.

Saying that there is "no way" a company can know what it's tax obligation is absurd. There are a variety of ways that companies project what their taxes are going to be.

If I were a marxist I would complain that labor is actually being stolen from the proletariat or that the natural resources that belong to us all are not equally shared to everyone or some such stupidity. Notice I have not done this.
94 posted on 09/28/2004 2:01:11 PM PDT by Durus
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To: Willie Green

"There is no way the company could know what their tax obligation would be beforehand because market pricing does not guarantee a profit will be made."

Taking your logic to its conclusion, there is no way that a company could ever do a budget, since there are no guarantees that ANY budget assumption will be realized. Companies would just say to their investors "wait until the end of the year, and we will tell you what our financial performance has been. Don't expect us to give you or the market any predictions."


98 posted on 09/29/2004 12:27:04 PM PDT by phil_will1
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