On Sep 9, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Charles Bennett wrote: > I'm on the red side. I think that Obama doesn't take into account > the small business owners and farmers in the 200k range that get > trapped into looking well off on paper (thus being hurt by his tax > increases) but don't actually have a lot of disposable income. You > increase the taxes on a small business owner, they are NOT going to > eat it. They are going to raise their prices to make of the > difference. The next thing you know, the blue side is arguing for > an increase in minimum wage (since prices have gone up..) and we > start the circle over again.
Just a factual point; I'm pretty sure that his plan has a different case for small business owners/farmers, for exactly the reason you describe. Surprise, he's competent. I could go into the deeper argument, but that's for another time. I'm trying really hard to limit my typing on this list, but I'm weak. :-) -Patrick _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
