[pigdog]

More "preposterous nonsense" on your part Dimp-Dimp. You're still trying to push the same misinformation that you tried many, many months ago. It wasn't true then and isn't true now.

All you have done is make it clear you do not understand the example of cascading tax costs I've given. And you're using the very same tactic you tried on these threads many months ago of trying to shout others down by yelling that there are no cascading tax costs and no hidden taxes and that the only thing that counts is what are paid as tax revenue and no other effect may be considered. BS, pal. Your tactic didn't work then and won't now.

And, well, gee - gosh, golly!! I suppose from your comments you think I've claimed that taxes are figgered on something other than profits!! Please point me to where I've said that. Your redundant description of that is neither necessary OR enlightening (though it may please you to make you feel superior). Your claim that taxes do not cause raising of prices is, I say again, more "preposterous nonsense".

I couldn't care less if you don't wish to admit there are tax costs that artificially inflate prices. You and your other toadies can't admit this since it shoots your entire argument and you wouldn't know what to do next. Working for a living might not be a bad idea for you for starters.

You need to study the examples in #323 and think - no matter how painful it may be. As it is, with all your jumping and screaming you remind me of Rumplestilskin.

[Dimples]

So, let's see. You've had, what, 30 posts now (in THIS thread alone) to simply show how much your "cascading" increases prices over and above the ACTUAL TAX PAID, in ANY example ... and what have we got?

NOTHING!

But, then that is the answer isn't it? Your "cascading" doesn't increase prices any more than the ACTUAL TAX PAID does it? All that spewing you've done about "hidden taxes" that are not actual taxes, but inflate prices more than the actual taxes do is, well, BUNK.

You claim it's there, you just can't figure out how to show anyone how big the effect is ... because the effect is NONEXISTENT.

You want us to consider costs other than the ACTUAL TAX and compliance cost PAID? Then show us that ANY such costs exist! So far, you've not shown a PENNY of cost in ANY example that is not ACTUAL TAX PAID, ACTUAL PROFIT, or ACTUAL BUSINESS COST; not a penny!

If these costs are so egregious, how hard could it be to show how much they are in SOME example?

So far, YOUR example has 33.88% of price as ACTUAL TAX PAID on 98.5% ACTUAL PROFIT and 1.5% ACTUAL COST (where's the "hidden tax" cost?) HINT: there is none.

In Your Nightmare's example we've got 4.76% of price as ACTUAL TAX PAID on 6.4% ACTUAL PROFIT, and 93.6% ACTUAL COST (where's the "hidden tax" cost?) HINT: there is none.

Your claim that taxes do not cause raising of prices is, I say again, more "preposterous nonsense".

Again, you can't seem to get it right: I have always maintained that taxes raise prices by NO MORE than the ACTUAL TAX and compliance cost PAID!

You're the one who keeps shopping this fictitious "Prices go up more than the taxes" nonsense thorough the fictitious "cascading" mechanism that "artificially inflates prices" beyond the amount of the actual taxes. PROVE IT. Show us ANY additional cost in ANY example that is not ACTUAL TAX PAID, ACTUAL PROFIT, or ACTUAL BUSINESS COST.

Go ahead. Show us SOMETHING greater than ZERO.

We're all still waiting ...