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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sense who wrote (3786)	2/13/2014 4:28:59 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	1 Recommendation Recommended By John Pitera Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4326

Capitalism 101 This is something that liberals can't seem to understand. I think maybe because it is too basic, too simple. It lacks the necessary complexity to even give a second thought. The simple fact is that free market capitalism is based on human nature and common sense. If a liberal business owner has his taxes raised, he treats that increase in his cost of doing business the same as he would treat an increase in the cost of materials. He would raise the price of his product to cover the increased costs and hopefully preserve some of his profit margin. Raising the price of his product will cause some customers on the margin to decide to not buy. On a small scale, this loss in sales may be imperceptible. On a large scale, those numbers add up. If that same liberal businessman knows that the market won't accept any price increases, he only has one other decision, and that is to decrease costs. The biggest expenditure in the vast majority of businesses is labor. So either several employees are going to get fewer hours or one employee is going to become unemployed. Either way, the purchasing power of America has gone down. Simple concept and common sense is really all that is needed to understand it. A liberal businessman has no choice but to act in the way that a conservative businessman would. . Continually eating the added costs of rising taxes without raising the price of the product or decreasing overall costs, is a suicidal business practice.