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Trade group identifies medical device makers passing on federal tax
Reuters ^
| Feb 28, 2013 6:07pm EST
| Debra Sherman
Posted on 03/04/2013 8:47:39 AM PST by Sopater
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Would you prefer that they layoff employees or reduce the quality of their products?
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posted on
03/04/2013 8:47:51 AM PST
by
Sopater
To: Sopater
If the tax was not supposed to be passed along as a cost of doing business, then it seems that it was intended to be a penalty to these providers, rather than just a tax. They should not be demonized for increasing their costs to cover the tax, IMHO.
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posted on
03/04/2013 8:51:22 AM PST
by
NEMDF
To: Sopater
So what if they lose money on each device, let them make it up on volume.
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posted on
03/04/2013 8:51:25 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
To: NonValueAdded
Kind of like the postal service, huh? (snicker...)
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posted on
03/04/2013 8:52:38 AM PST
by
NEMDF
To: Sopater
To: NonValueAdded
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posted on
03/04/2013 8:54:54 AM PST
by
BillGunn
(Bill Gunn for Congress district one rep. Massachusetts)
To: BillGunn
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posted on
03/04/2013 8:56:31 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
To: Sopater
Businesses passing on their government regulatory costs and taxes to consumers by raising their prices? Tell me it ain’t so...
That’s called how you run a business and stay afloat when the federal mafia have their hands in your back pockets. I thought the liberals were supposedly smarter yet they don’t get this.../s
To: Sopater
Pardon me, but... Duh.
All costs of operation are passed on to consumers. Period. Reuters is accusing them of nothing more than doing business.
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posted on
03/04/2013 8:57:38 AM PST
by
Oberon
(Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
To: Sopater
And no one ever thought that increased taxes on business would be passed on down the chain? It is called Trickle Down Taxes, just like Wealth.
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posted on
03/04/2013 8:58:40 AM PST
by
AirborneMedic
(In my 16 years in the military, I have never served with a Liberal !!!! ***Update, just one***)
To: NonValueAdded
> So what if they lose money on each device, let them make it up on volume.
Well what if they don’t want to? Your reasoning seems “liberalish” to me.
To: Oberon
Reuters is accusing them of nothing more than doing business.
Correct, and then calling them out by name to try and punish them for doing so.
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posted on
03/04/2013 9:04:06 AM PST
by
Sopater
(...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
To: Sopater
This is pretty damned Funny, for the last 30 years HOSPITALS have been Pushing the Costs of treating the Uninsured and Illegals onto us Insured Citizens with the means and ability to pay. What was that line about not throwing stones when you live in a glass house
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posted on
03/04/2013 9:08:49 AM PST
by
eyeamok
To: NonValueAdded
is one really necessary?See comment 11
:-)
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posted on
03/04/2013 9:09:21 AM PST
by
BillGunn
(Bill Gunn for Congress district one rep. Massachusetts)
To: Sopater
Corporations that sell products do not pay taxes. They collect them.
The taxes imposed are part of their cost of doing business, and the effect is to make their product more expensive. If the product is not being marketed for the ultimate profit of the maker, very soon it is no longer being produced at all.
What part of economics does this regime now squatting in the White Hut not understand? One is inclined to believe, not one bit of the dismal science of economics is within their grasp.
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posted on
03/04/2013 9:18:53 AM PST
by
alloysteel
(What is all too obvious, is not obvious to all. Until it is too late to reverse course.)
To: Sopater
I love the wordsmithing they use to make people "FEEL" like they are getting screwed by these manufacturers: "cost-shifting suppliers"!
I mean, so if I go get a burger for lunch, is McDonald's "cost-shifting" the sales tax on to me?!? This is BEYOND stupid!
The media, along with the Obama Administration, actually thinks that they can "shame" companies into loosing money! Do you really think they won't figure out a way to get those losses down? They HAVE to or they will go out of business or loose investors or be taken to court for failing to maximize their profits or some other stupid liberal mumbo-jumbo crap!
These people are certifiable!
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posted on
03/04/2013 9:32:27 AM PST
by
ExTxMarine
(PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
To: Sopater
I believe this tax is on sales instead of net profit, which makes it even more onerous
To: Rusty0604
I believe this tax is on sales instead of net profit, which makes it even more onerous
That's the way I understand it. The tax is on "revenues", not "profits".
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posted on
03/04/2013 9:52:06 AM PST
by
Sopater
(...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
To: Sopater
Reuters is trying to help their Messiah by naming the companies in order to galvanize sentiment against them.
These companies were unfairly singled out along with tanning salons. Now they are demonized further.
Disgusting.
To: Sopater
What does the facist group suggest their facist government do about this “outrage”? Put some CEOs in jail? Or a reeducation camp?
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posted on
03/04/2013 10:08:12 AM PST
by
DManA
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