[Your Nightmare]

No. That's stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. That's not what was said now, was it?

Yeah, I think it was.

When costs are greater than available funds.

But if you can just raise your price, why wouldn't you be able to make sure revenues were greater than costs? How could any business go bankrupt in your world? If they aren't making a profit they just raise their price.

You can if you like, but you cannot price to the extent of eliminating sales - because sales revenue is the only indefinite stream of cash flow with which costs may be paid.

But if you could raise your price without eliminating sales, wouldn't you do that even if you weren't paying taxes? Don't you like as much profit as you can get or are you a communist?

[Principled]

How could any business go bankrupt in your world?

Same as in your world - when expenses exceed sales revenues. Because, as you know, sales revenue is the only indefinite cash flow source from which expenses can be paid.

Since sales revenues are the sole indefinite source of funds, sales revenues must be sufficient to pay expenses - ALL of them. Even tax costs.

But if you could raise your price without eliminating sales,...

This is not what I've said. It's what you want to argue.