> Cam wrote: > Or LHSII decides not to pass the cost to consumers... Yes, but the example, as with the "death tax", uses bogus logic.
That is: (1.) You get paid a salary to provide a service (I'm guessing). (2.) Someone buys that service and therefore is paying the cost of your work. (3.) Someone else buys a service or product from #2 and is paying the "Cam tax" On it goes until we can say that everyone in the US is paying the Cam Tax. What we've ignored in this analysis, though, is costs that your service might save. Let's say someone uses your service to automate a process or provide access to markets they otherwise couldn't. Now there's a positive ROI to the Cam Tax. In the same way, good regulation should have a positive ROI. In the case of the airlines, that ROI is customer confidence that the service is safe. That powers business and, net-net, have a positive or value-creation effect on the economy. There's 100% chance that regulation isn't as efficient as it could be, just as there's 100% chance that you're not as productive as you could be. (slacker) However, net-net you're still adding value so you're still employed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:268495 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
