Ole country boy philosophy is you'd stand a better chance ?issing in the
wind.
Billboards evolved into the internet which is going go evolve into who knows
what.
Advertising is what pays us to promote our businesses and let people know
that we're ready, willing and able...
Virgil Bierschwale
Armstrong and Skipper Real Estate
(830) 329-6774 Cell
(830) 864-4726 Home
(830) 864-4799 Fax
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'ProFox Email List'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:39 PM
Subject: [OT advertising
I still maintain that we'd be living in a MUCH better world
if the U.S. Tax Code were amended to ELIMINATE the deduction of
advertising/marketing expenses for companies that gross over
$10,000,000 per year.
They can still advertise, no "free speech" problems, they
just wouldn't be able to continue charging US, the U.S. taxpayers, for
the
bulk of the expense!!!
Think about it. Look around. How many gargantuan companies
flood our eyeballs with this Sh*T. It's everywhere you look in a
city,
on nearly every surface in view.
Even the goddamn water, gas, electric and petroleum MONOPOLIES spend
billions in "feel good" ads, ON OUR NICKLE!
And don't get me started on Golf Tournaments. They've ruined a great
game by turning golf into MASSIVE perks for corporate executive
pigs...(I told you, "don't get me started on Golf"....)
I'm in favor of anything that turns down the volume of advertising, and
the repetitious ones especially, but I'd go further and all get unwanted
ads (and spam!) out of our faces altogether, at least for those of us
who don't want to see them.
If all ads had to go into places where we can see them when we want to,
obviously the net would be the major player, I do think it would be just
fine for everyone concerned. People are still going to buy things, just
on different things then the ads are pushing and pulling for. If people
do spend less money on fewer things overall, that's good too. We're way
too possession oriented. And if this did slow the economy, better for
it. And, if necessary, we can redirect a large piece of the military
budget to productive things and the positive ripple effect that would
have.
Bill
C
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