Posted on 12/28/2002 11:59:09 AM PST by hsmomx3
Looks like the use of peyote is still prevalent in AZ.
I will go along with this tax hike - if he can prove one time that you can tax your way to prosperity
Dan Schweiker is chairman and CEO of Scottsdale-based China Mist Tea Co.
Wonderful! He can just donate the government his #$%@@ tea company. Those of us enjoying the 38% and higher bracket spend our time looking for tax BREAKS. Sheesh, the Arizonan Republicans need to find an industrial-sized butterfly net for that loon.
Willie, I didn't think you'd want to miss this, FRiend.
I think Schweiker's been smoking some of that China Mist.
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I agree, nothing worse than a company feeling the pinch of having too much money to pay the employees, the creditors, and cutting the price of goods and services.
We fought one war over taxation without representation. We may have to fight another one over representation without taxation.
Special tax treatment for select goods narrows the tax base, distorts consumer behavior and is just plain unfair for industries that haven't (yet) gotten some special exemption.
100% on target. The tax code is used to benefit political donors, or used to punish those that don't play along.
My business will suffer if I can't find qualified employees
That could be true, but I would like to see some specifics on this. Is he having trouble hiring now? Why is that? It looks like he runs China Mist Tea.
Here is the key statement...This clown is a moron!
"The stimulus of tax dollars"? Taxes remove dollars from the economy. Sheesh!
Another socialist seeking a party...try the Democrat party. They have the same misguided thought processes as you do.
(not you..hsmomx3)
You beat me to it, but you've expressed my sentiments exactly. |
If anyone can tell me how tax dollars stimulate the economy, you know where to find me...
On the contrary - we have yet to see a situation where prosperity comes from taxation.
The crux of this guy's argument is that we need government spending to keep money flowing in the economy. IOW, this guy thinks government serves as the proverbial middle man for economic activity. This idea is unsound, and runs contrary to arguments for efficiency that dominate economic thinking.
Cutting basic government services is bad - but what does he consider "basic" and what does he consider excessive or unnecessary?
This guy advocates placing taxes on internet sales claiming it is not fair that local businesses must pay the sales tax, whereas people purchasing over the internet (out of state) do not have to pay. Wouldn't it be more fair to the local businesses then to cut taxes so they can better compete with out-of-state internet driven sales? Also, someone in AZ buying a product over the internet from a business in CA, tells us two important things about taxation - the first is that such people view local taxes as already being too high, and secondly, the level of taxation that people will bear for given products is equivalent to the shipping costs of acquiring the goods out-of-state. Also, aren't there people in CA purchasing goods from merchants in AZ so they too can avoid paying their excessive sales taxes? If these so-called business friendly politicians want to help local businesses, they should work to get taxation more in line with shipping costs so people will not develop an interest in acquiring goods from out-of-state.
Now, however, we have seen that it is just another way of doing business and does not deserve the tax breaks that penalize all the businesses that invest in bricks and mortar and employees.
This is a specious argument because like I said above, people from all over benefit from e-commerce, and merchants from all over benefit from e-commerce as well. Furthermore, aren't many e-commerce sites themselves established brick-and-mortar businesses, owned by both national corporate interests as well as being owned by "mom and pop" types of a local nature?
This guy purports s to be business friendly in the guise of fairness, but his view of the world is not fair to consumers or to local entreprenurial interests either.
Pragmatic Republican????
More like pragmatic socialist.
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