Posted on 08/17/2024 7:37:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
BTTT
I just got out of the hospital after a 3 week stay. The bill was $156 000 for just the room. That did include several hours in the emergency room and 2-3 days in intensive care.
But they saved my life and I’ll happily pay it.
In most places the government makes more off the sale due to sales tax vs the profit margins of the company. In addition the multitude of regulations again costs the consumer more than the profit margin.
The single biggest cost driver for almost every product is the Government.
I’m not so sure it is grocery store chains she is concerned with. More like the food producers and their mark ups. In any case, she is not qualified in the matter.
check the union labor wages used while shipping goods.
remove the union and wages will drop which would effect pricing.
The price of government is taxes. The government is price gouging.
To quote a line from the series “VEEP”, and seeing Harris’s first attempt at controlling inflation by communistic price controls, “It’s like watching a goat operate an ATM machine.”
“grocery stores who are guilty of ‘price gauging’ as she, sic, put it.”
Except she said “price GAGE-ing”. Cannot read a Teleprompter and never learned the lingo of economics. Even if the Teleprompter spelled it incorrectly, someone with a 50 IQ would recognize that and say the correct word.
That little 1% theft will eat up 40% of the profit (.01x.80)/.02. In fact, all it takes is 2.5% theft to wipe out ALL profit.
At least during the Great Depression people understood work and tried not to take handouts. An overlooked side effect of Keynesian debt-based economic policy is weakening the moral fiber and social standards of a nation.
Keep in mind that you are under no legal obligation to allow the store to examine your receipt at the door. At that point, the stuff in your basket is your property and they don’t have the right to make you prove it.
As Dionne Warwick sang: Walk on by
Those who created Kamala’s policy (not her) are *not* stupid. Creating shortages is on purpose. It is part of the same larger policy as the war on farmers.
The author left out workers comp insurance. That’s a direct cost paid by the employer on the employees’ salaries, usually from 5% to 25% depending on the job title.
And I thought it was the moneychangers aka The den of vipers at the Federal Reserve diluting our currency
Ever since Covid Kroger steaks suck. On the other hand, their wild caught Argentinean red shrimp is the best.
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