I will pass the cost in some form to the consumer, change my business so that I avoid the tax, or reduce the amount it cost me to do business while still collecting the same amount for the product. None of these options end with me paying for the tax increase, which is my point. Last time companies don't pay taxes consumers do.
As I recall several years ago when a plant in Tiawan or Japan went offline (fire or explosion), This impacted the cost of producing RAM chips greatly. Immediatly RAM prices went through the roof and stayed that way for a good long time. I think they passed along this huge increase in material to the consumer, and guess what people payed it because the price increase effect the entire industry much like a tax on oil would effect the entire industry.
In the case of you oil example you're right. If oil prices skyrocket more companies will begin looking into other souces of energy. The oil companies would diversify and if the price to deliver oil stayed higher than other forms of energy producing oil might just go away.
I've said this same thing multiple times. You will not convince me, obviously I won't convince you, so continuing this is pointless.
Wasn't this about taxing oil? My point being you cannot tax a company you tax the consumer. I need only concern myself with one thought in this discussion my cash flow. It really is pretty simple, positive cash flow *good* negative cash flow **bad** Things change all the time prices go up, prices go down, the efficiency of the company gets better, etc.... If the cost of isomalt goes up everything that uses isomalt goes up. So, in your example if all those candies used isomalt they would increase in price comparible to the amount of isomalt used in production, or the company would have to find a way to reduce costs, in which case the company still pays NO tax. Do you get it? I have no idea what candy does or does not have isomalt.
Was the increase of the cost of isomalt one variable change or more.... I lost count.
Yes. I would have to recoup those costs somehow or go out of business or make less money for myself. How long do you think I could pay into the tax base of the government at a loss to my business? When new taxes have been added to cigarettes, gas or alchohol did all those stores just say "ahhh hell I guess we'll just have to eat it." I know grocery stores just give food away for less than the cost to farm, harvest, and transport to market. When fuel prices / taxes go up the trucking companies just say well we'll just have to deliver stuff for free now. Keep reading those economics book and listening to professors who have little / no experiance with actually running a business.
I know in my business as my cost of doing business goes up, I just eat that increase and continue selling my services and products for the same amount. I just happily hand over more of my profit to the government in the form of the new tax. I wouldn't want to pass that along to my customers... maybe if I only eat 4 times a week my reduced cash flow will last as long as it did.....
Corporations don't pay taxes, consumers do.
the government ought to collect a tax on each barrel produced equal to the amount the barrel would cost on the open market minus production costs - that way the companies don't benefit financially (same cost to them, more or less, than the open market).
Raising taxes on a product doesn't reduce the profitability to the company. It only increases the cost to the consumer.
Now, I wish that china and EU would get together and come up with limits on how much energy a monitor and a computer can use.
What would the criteria be to detemine the amount of power a computer can use? Do you use a low end computer (email and web only POS) for the baseline, or a gaming machine that requires lots of CPU and Video or how about a high end desktop for video editing with multiple multi-core processers and a couple high end video cards, and a RAID array? What about servers?
As long as the tasty animals survive. If they don't fit well next to the mashed potatoes or on a bun I say let em go. I'm not a big fan of the Hummer, personally I prefer my Suburban and a Viper for the weekends.
This is the suit that never ends,
Yes, it goes on and on, my friend
Some people started it not knowing what it was,
And they'll continue litigating forever just because--
Last I knew the 3 branchs of government the Executive (President), Legislative (House & Senate), and the Judiciary. I'm not sure when people started considering the balance in a legislative body part of the Balance of Power.
Actually yes...They settled to avoid a protracted court case. Patents being invalid or the entire case being baseless has nothing to do with battling in court, ask IBM. How much do you think IBM has pissed away already fighting the bogus SCO case?
I know Sharon very well. The true story is a number of users received email about employment it had a link to a phishing site. There was no keylogger involved. I know the media doesn't want the facts to get in the way of a good story but sheesh
1st thing I do after purchasing music from Apple is burn an audio CD (for archive) of the song(s) and rip them back into iTunes removing the DRM in the process.
I think the issue revolves around marriage being tradtionally a religious ceremony. The kooks are people that oppose gay marriage and civil unions or anything that gives an equal footing / benefit. I had a former cop as a boss and he used to say, "Its their mouth, that can carry coal in it for all I care."
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I will pass the cost in some form to the consumer, change my business so that I avoid the tax, or reduce the amount it cost me to do business while still collecting the same amount for the product. None of these options end with me paying for the tax increase, which is my point. Last time companies don't pay taxes consumers do. As I recall several years ago when a plant in Tiawan or Japan went offline (fire or explosion), This impacted the cost of producing RAM chips greatly. Immediatly RAM prices went through the roof and stayed that way for a good long time. I think they passed along this huge increase in material to the consumer, and guess what people payed it because the price increase effect the entire industry much like a tax on oil would effect the entire industry. In the case of you oil example you're right. If oil prices skyrocket more companies will begin looking into other souces of energy. The oil companies would diversify and if the price to deliver oil stayed higher than other forms of energy producing oil might just go away. I've said this same thing multiple times. You will not convince me, obviously I won't convince you, so continuing this is pointless.
Wasn't this about taxing oil? My point being you cannot tax a company you tax the consumer. I need only concern myself with one thought in this discussion my cash flow. It really is pretty simple, positive cash flow *good* negative cash flow **bad** Things change all the time prices go up, prices go down, the efficiency of the company gets better, etc.... If the cost of isomalt goes up everything that uses isomalt goes up. So, in your example if all those candies used isomalt they would increase in price comparible to the amount of isomalt used in production, or the company would have to find a way to reduce costs, in which case the company still pays NO tax. Do you get it? I have no idea what candy does or does not have isomalt. Was the increase of the cost of isomalt one variable change or more.... I lost count.
Yes. I would have to recoup those costs somehow or go out of business or make less money for myself. How long do you think I could pay into the tax base of the government at a loss to my business? When new taxes have been added to cigarettes, gas or alchohol did all those stores just say "ahhh hell I guess we'll just have to eat it." I know grocery stores just give food away for less than the cost to farm, harvest, and transport to market. When fuel prices / taxes go up the trucking companies just say well we'll just have to deliver stuff for free now. Keep reading those economics book and listening to professors who have little / no experiance with actually running a business.
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I know in my business as my cost of doing business goes up, I just eat that increase and continue selling my services and products for the same amount. I just happily hand over more of my profit to the government in the form of the new tax. I wouldn't want to pass that along to my customers... maybe if I only eat 4 times a week my reduced cash flow will last as long as it did..... Corporations don't pay taxes, consumers do.
The price of oil tripled, at its high point, demand barely dropped.
the government ought to collect a tax on each barrel produced equal to the amount the barrel would cost on the open market minus production costs - that way the companies don't benefit financially (same cost to them, more or less, than the open market).
Raising taxes on a product doesn't reduce the profitability to the company. It only increases the cost to the consumer.
If the planet is warmer than it has ever been why is Greenland named as such?
Now, I wish that china and EU would get together and come up with limits on how much energy a monitor and a computer can use.
What would the criteria be to detemine the amount of power a computer can use? Do you use a low end computer (email and web only POS) for the baseline, or a gaming machine that requires lots of CPU and Video or how about a high end desktop for video editing with multiple multi-core processers and a couple high end video cards, and a RAID array? What about servers?
Last I checked humans aren't an endangered species. We could use a good virus to clean the genetic pool a bit.
As long as the tasty animals survive. If they don't fit well next to the mashed potatoes or on a bun I say let em go. I'm not a big fan of the Hummer, personally I prefer my Suburban and a Viper for the weekends.
.... You BASTARDS!
This is the suit that never ends, Yes, it goes on and on, my friend Some people started it not knowing what it was, And they'll continue litigating forever just because--
Last I knew the 3 branchs of government the Executive (President), Legislative (House & Senate), and the Judiciary. I'm not sure when people started considering the balance in a legislative body part of the Balance of Power.
I'm sorry but you violated my patent on replacing puctuation with letters or numbers on a message board... see you in court!
Actually yes...They settled to avoid a protracted court case. Patents being invalid or the entire case being baseless has nothing to do with battling in court, ask IBM. How much do you think IBM has pissed away already fighting the bogus SCO case?
.... you have to make money somehow. Seems NTP's choice is to extort money using the court system.
I know Sharon very well. The true story is a number of users received email about employment it had a link to a phishing site. There was no keylogger involved. I know the media doesn't want the facts to get in the way of a good story but sheesh
Mindspring already does #1 and is pisses me off to no end everytime I get one of those replies. What a crappy way to "control spam"
I believe that was corrected by a higher court ruling.
You can sync purchased music from the iPod to any of your 5 "registered" computers now.
You forgot about the decline of Pirates.
1st thing I do after purchasing music from Apple is burn an audio CD (for archive) of the song(s) and rip them back into iTunes removing the DRM in the process.
I think the issue revolves around marriage being tradtionally a religious ceremony. The kooks are people that oppose gay marriage and civil unions or anything that gives an equal footing / benefit. I had a former cop as a boss and he used to say, "Its their mouth, that can carry coal in it for all I care."