What Hurts a business more?

10-27-2009, 04:11 PM

3-5% more in taxes or thier customer base having 50% less to spend?
Doesn't make sense?
Should I get out some crayons and draw a picture?
Memphis go back to clown school. Maybe you'll pass this time.
LadySnowbird, OH so that is the right-wing idea to prevent businesses from paying taxes?!
Ryde, it doesn't matter if it is 10 or 15% if they aren't selling anything they aren't going to be in business long.
So higher wages, more to spend is better for any business that what we have witnessed for the past 30 years.

**Erin** · 10-27-2009, 04:11 PM

Customer base having 50% less to spend. It's not rocket science.

While I can understand more taxes can mean a smaller workforce, less profits (because of people not being able to come in and buy product) can also mean a smaller workforce, not to mention a company being shut down if their profit is hurt too badly from not selling anything.

**Anon** · 10-27-2009, 04:11 PM

C. a society of useless liberals who hate work and try to have everything handed to them and do/contribute as little as possible in their lives as well as their jobs from a strange sense of entitlement no one in the real world has.

Hard work is what made America a first world nation.

**N.J.S.** · 10-27-2009, 04:12 PM

Anon is right!

**LadySnowbird** · 10-27-2009, 04:12 PM

IF their customers have 50% less to spend, then businesses make 50% less and they pay 50% less in taxes.

**Dan Levin** · 10-27-2009, 04:12 PM

what are you talking about in particular? 3-5% in taxes can mean a smaller workforce and I don't know of any government initiative that give consumers 50% more money. please elaborate.

**Joshua C** · 10-27-2009, 04:12 PM

Let's go with door number two!

**Ryde-On** · 10-27-2009, 04:12 PM

If it were only 3-5 %

**Ben** · 10-27-2009, 04:12 PM

Cash is king when it comes to making profits. Without healthy sales the tax % means very little, plus it makes trying to achieve profits that much more difficult.

Taxes can be passed on, and should be, because they represent the cost of doing business !

**Memphis** · 10-27-2009, 04:12 PM

Your short term reinflating the bubble theory is a....fail.

Id rather them have 50% less to spend, but be a successful free America, free market country in the future.