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Would you prefer that they layoff employees or reduce the quality of their products?
1 posted on 03/04/2013 8:47:51 AM PST by Sopater
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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.


2 posted on 03/04/2013 8:51:22 AM PST by NEMDF
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So what if they lose money on each device, let them make it up on volume.


3 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.)
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Well, duh...


5 posted on 03/04/2013 8:54:49 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (NRA Life Member)
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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


8 posted on 03/04/2013 8:56:43 AM PST by jsanders2001
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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.

9 posted on 03/04/2013 8:57:38 AM PST by Oberon (Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
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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.


10 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***)
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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


13 posted on 03/04/2013 9:08:49 AM PST by eyeamok
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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.


15 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.)
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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!
16 posted on 03/04/2013 9:32:27 AM PST by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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I believe this tax is on sales instead of net profit, which makes it even more onerous
17 posted on 03/04/2013 9:39:10 AM PST by Rusty0604
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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.

19 posted on 03/04/2013 9:53:12 AM PST by what's up
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What does the facist group suggest their facist government do about this “outrage”? Put some CEOs in jail? Or a reeducation camp?


20 posted on 03/04/2013 10:08:12 AM PST by DManA
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We can’t afford any of the socialists involved in the medical racket in any way.


22 posted on 03/04/2013 10:37:15 AM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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There’s a long list of medical professional organizations lobbying against our Second Amendment, BTW. They’ve already crushed traditional family structure.


23 posted on 03/04/2013 10:38:57 AM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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All taxes are passed on it’s why everything costs so much,gubment leaders at work.


24 posted on 03/04/2013 11:06:45 AM PST by Vaduz
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Rush Limbaugh just had a caller who stated that under obamacare (actually since the early ‘90’s) anyone under medicaid would have to have their home attached for the cost of coverage & benefits.

TRUE! I was very ill in the 90’s, could not work and checked into medicaid..YES, they can LIEN your home for the cost of coverage...that was Oregon. I refused to apply with this rule and sold my home to get medical care. I also checked out California...same thing.

The difference now, is that the IRS will be charged with compliance and YOU WILL lose the equity in your home if you get ‘government healthcare!’

BELIEVE IT!

Budget reconciliation act 1993


26 posted on 03/04/2013 12:01:03 PM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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Hospital management groups should orient toward self-supply through backward integration and set a fine example by fully absorbing these mandated Obamacare taxes resulting in additional supply costs. Problem solved.


28 posted on 03/04/2013 12:40:04 PM PST by Dysart
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EVERY cost is passed on down the line no matter what it is. Fees, taxes, transportation costs, everything. Anyone who thinks differently should try running a business someday.

By the way these costs keep trickling down until they get to the bottom where they finally end up being paid for by the consumer.

JB


29 posted on 03/04/2013 2:10:18 PM PST by thatjoeguy (Every law passed is one person forcing their morals on someone else.)
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