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Ah. So we have to continue subsidizing the rich because otherwise, they would be even more rapacious than they already are. Up is down, wrong is right, greed is good.
In big business, feeding corporate greed each product is priced at the highest price the market will bear. So the answer to your question is the prices will largely stay the same. Well run, viable businesses will continue to survive while poorly run businesses will falter and fail. Isn’t that your side’s argument about human beings, the successful are entitled to as much money as they can extort and swindle from the rest of us. The weak and non-predatory who don’t cheat every chance they get, and thus don’t “succeed” should not be helped? . Your comment demonstrates your lack of knowledge of how big business works. And you want your party to run things? No wonder the last administration augered this country into the ground. . I will write it again so maybe you can understand, if you read it really slow. In the modern free market each product is priced at the highest price the market will bear. Regardless of what the tax burden is (even .00000001% would be too high for the redumblicans) the price of the product is the absolute most the market will pay for that product. If the price goes higher, demand will plummet. So the answer to your question is the prices will largely stay the same because there is no room to raise prices on most items without killing demand. But the favorite tripe of the redumblican party is taxes are passed onto the consumer. To a point that is true. TO A POINT. But considering the “market will bear” pricing structure an increase in taxes burden, or more accurately to the democrats position, an elimination of the loopholes that disproportionately benefit some at the (discriminatory) expense of others, would simply result in lower corporate profits. And we all know how bad corporate America has it now. Please. If the democrats could get cooperation from the rethuglicans, we could lower our marginal tax rates, but then they woudl apply evenly across the board with no preferential treatment, and the rethuglicans will NEVER tolerate that. Some of their friends would suffer. And for the rethuglicans ot be happy, only the little guy can suffer. . So once more since we know the redumblican schtick is repetition. In the modern free market each product is priced at the highest price the market will bear. Regardless of what the tax burden is the prices will largely stay the same.
If it worked, we wouldn’t have had big deficits since at least Reagan, a crumbling infrastructure, high unemployment from outsourcing, and a recession since W.
The value of ‘money’ exceeds the value of the items and services for which it is meant to be used as an exchange tool. We also have a cannibalistic marketing system wherein each corporation needs to have enough cash and resources on hand to stand up to hostile takeovers, while small local businesses and industries are unable to compete without cutting pay and services to local employees. Money is being used as a weapon against peoples and governments and it is being “dammed up” like a river and only a small percentage flows downstream to the folks and world that are in need. In search of money, politicians make “ends justify means” and honor and ethics are set aside to appease campaign donars. It has only when we worked together as neighbors and respectful acquaintances, if not friends, where we have excelled as a nation and a people. Money doesn’t exist when the hurricanes strike, or the power goes out for weeks, or earthquakes and fires destroy homes and lives. It gets promised and financial commitments get made, but in the short term, its humans helping humans that save us and make us great. Respectfully, C.
While your statement is true regarding the highest price the market will bare, the lost profit due to higher taxes will be made up by producing the output with the fewest people possible!!! There’s the rub, bub!
Mikefive, you say “If you eradicate the tax deductions, where do you think the price of the products you buy will go?”
Answer: they’ll stay the same. We work in a system called cap-it-al-ism. Look it up. Prices are set by supply and demand, not by what it costs to make things. How much did the price of your Nikes fall when the jobs were shipped to Vietnam? Right. They didn’t.
“…producing the output with the fewest people possible!!! " . And you don’t think corporate raiders aren’t doing that already? No viable business exists and operates with excess personnel. Ever heard of downsizing? It’s been happening since at least the 60’s. So where is the rub, bub?
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Comments (39) (Please sign in to comment)
NebulousRikulau
said, 10 months ago
That’s totally unfair.
The Elephant is doing everything it can to stop anything that might help the economy or job creation. Stop picking on him.
sw10mm said, 10 months ago
But, “It worked”, didn’t it?
mikefive said, 10 months ago
If you eradicate the tax deductions, where do you think the price of the products you buy will go?
jonesb said, 10 months ago
@NebulousRikulau
I don’t always agree with Heller but he does go after both sides which is a sign of an honest man.
ghostkeeper said, 10 months ago
@mikefive
Ah. So we have to continue subsidizing the rich because otherwise, they would be even more rapacious than they already are. Up is down, wrong is right, greed is good.
Mighty Mouse said, 10 months ago
Ya gotta respect a cartoonist that lampoons everyone.
As they should.
And the lampoonees deserve.
zoidknight said, 10 months ago
@ghostkeeper
Obamacare eliminated the tax deductions for your healthcare insurance at work.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 10 months ago
@mikefive
In big business, feeding corporate greed each product is priced at the highest price the market will bear. So the answer to your question is the prices will largely stay the same. Well run, viable businesses will continue to survive while poorly run businesses will falter and fail. Isn’t that your side’s argument about human beings, the successful are entitled to as much money as they can extort and swindle from the rest of us. The weak and non-predatory who don’t cheat every chance they get, and thus don’t “succeed” should not be helped?
.
Your comment demonstrates your lack of knowledge of how big business works. And you want your party to run things? No wonder the last administration augered this country into the ground.
.
I will write it again so maybe you can understand, if you read it really slow. In the modern free market each product is priced at the highest price the market will bear. Regardless of what the tax burden is (even .00000001% would be too high for the redumblicans) the price of the product is the absolute most the market will pay for that product. If the price goes higher, demand will plummet. So the answer to your question is the prices will largely stay the same because there is no room to raise prices on most items without killing demand. But the favorite tripe of the redumblican party is taxes are passed onto the consumer. To a point that is true. TO A POINT. But considering the “market will bear” pricing structure an increase in taxes burden, or more accurately to the democrats position, an elimination of the loopholes that disproportionately benefit some at the (discriminatory) expense of others, would simply result in lower corporate profits. And we all know how bad corporate America has it now. Please. If the democrats could get cooperation from the rethuglicans, we could lower our marginal tax rates, but then they woudl apply evenly across the board with no preferential treatment, and the rethuglicans will NEVER tolerate that. Some of their friends would suffer. And for the rethuglicans ot be happy, only the little guy can suffer.
.
So once more since we know the redumblican schtick is repetition. In the modern free market each product is priced at the highest price the market will bear. Regardless of what the tax burden is the prices will largely stay the same.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 10 months ago
@ghostkeeper
“Up is down, wrong is right, greed is good.”
.
Have you been reading the republican propaganda playbook again?
Jase99 said, 10 months ago
@sw10mm
“But, “It worked”, didn’t it?”
If it worked, we wouldn’t have had big deficits since at least Reagan, a crumbling infrastructure, high unemployment from outsourcing, and a recession since W.
Respectful Troll said, 10 months ago
The value of ‘money’ exceeds the value of the items and services for which it is meant to be used as an exchange tool. We also have a cannibalistic marketing system wherein each corporation needs to have enough cash and resources on hand to stand up to hostile takeovers, while small local businesses and industries are unable to compete without cutting pay and services to local employees. Money is being used as a weapon against peoples and governments and it is being “dammed up” like a river and only a small percentage flows downstream to the folks and world that are in need. In search of money, politicians make “ends justify means” and honor and ethics are set aside to appease campaign donars.
It has only when we worked together as neighbors and respectful acquaintances, if not friends, where we have excelled as a nation and a people. Money doesn’t exist when the hurricanes strike, or the power goes out for weeks, or earthquakes and fires destroy homes and lives. It gets promised and financial commitments get made, but in the short term, its humans helping humans that save us and make us great.
Respectfully,
C.
dahawk said, 10 months ago
@TheTrustedMechanic
While your statement is true regarding the highest price the market will bare, the lost profit due to higher taxes will be made up by producing the output with the fewest people possible!!! There’s the rub, bub!
ARodney said, 10 months ago
Mikefive, you say “If you eradicate the tax deductions, where do you think the price of the products you buy will go?”
Answer: they’ll stay the same. We work in a system called cap-it-al-ism. Look it up. Prices are set by supply and demand, not by what it costs to make things. How much did the price of your Nikes fall when the jobs were shipped to Vietnam? Right. They didn’t.
retpost said, 10 months ago
Good cartoon, panel four shows 99% of our problems.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 10 months ago
@dahawk
“…producing the output with the fewest people possible!!! "
.
And you don’t think corporate raiders aren’t doing that already? No viable business exists and operates with excess personnel. Ever heard of downsizing? It’s been happening since at least the 60’s. So where is the rub, bub?