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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (321209)1/16/2007 7:26:50 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1578297
 
"I can give you many instances of businesses closing up shop and moving elsewhere. Or businesses choosing not to expand in a high tax environment. Or businesses moving operations out of a high tax environment into a lower one, thereby making employees in the high tax environment go to the unemployment lines."

Sure, those things happen. But how many went out of business? Or even would have gone out of business. Which was your claim.

Businesses do those sort of things to cut their costs. Taxes aren't the only ones. There have been plenty of businesses that have moved to the Houston area because wages are generally lower. For tech, the general reason why wages are lower is housing costs are much lower and employees like that.

"Think the occurrence of all that does not increase when you increase taxes?"

Ah, so you are moving the goal posts. I don't disagree that raising taxes will cause those things. What I was challenging was it causes a company to go out of business.
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