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To: combjelly who wrote (321295)	1/16/2007 10:51:17 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1577791

"That's a rather unreasonable request. " Why? 1 - Companies that go under typically do so for a number of reasons. Lets say there where a half dozen problems and the company went under. If one of them was a tax increase would the company have gone under without a tax increase? Its quite possible even the owner of the company doesn't know for sure. How can a third party prove its due to a tax increase? 2 - Tax increases have negative indirect effects as well as direct ones. If customers buy less, or suppliers demand higher prices in response to the increase, there is no easy way to show that they would not have done so without the increase. Shorty has made the claim that he has laid people off and passed on business because his tax rate has gone up. That is a very specific and concrete claim that makes no sense at all from a business point of view. Longshort isn't the only person in the discussion, and his claim isn't the overall issue, just an argument/example in the discussion. Working backwards you have to go through a number of posts between you and Tench, and a post by Mindmeld to get to Longshort's post.

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