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ShadowMasterTX -> RE: How low will major companies go? (11/13/2012 6:59:00 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Yachtie
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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
Didnt you say you have a background in restaurants? I do know that at RT's, the cost of the Salab bar is so negligiuble that its less than 50 cents... which is why its free. The cost of a steak dinner... around 2 bucks. Deserts and bar was the expense tab there... which is where it is in most restaurants, unless they make their own deserts.
For a pasta dish? they make a 6 to 10 times on mark up.
A pizza place charges 10 bucks a pie.. no extras... and it will cost them an extra 14 cents to cover employees benefits.
In other words.... its not about cost here... its not about profit margin. Most customers wouldnt notice the extra 20 cents at Papa Johns.... and most wouldnt care knowing the reason why.
All this is doing is giving them a bad rep.
Corporations are tossing a temper tantrum that they will have to do something they dont want too, so they will make their own bottom line hurt. Who do these people think they are fooling? Cutting their noses off to spite their faces when the people they employee live in the communities where the job loses are going to be felt.
So it's not about cost or profit margin. It's not about business. It's not about government's hand in the marketplace. So just what is it about?
It's about communities. Business should absorb anything and everything in the name of community. Business should not look after itself but after the community.
Whine, scream, cajole, berate, whatever... There is an goal to what the liberal wants. They shall achieve it by any means. It's the liberal mantra, like waves upon the rocks pounding and pounding till the bedrock becomes sand.
The most destructive force the world has ever known is the modern Liberal.
But your right. In many ways, it is about community. When the pizza place sends a car out to deliver that pizza, the car travels on roads, and stops at traffic lights. These are things provided by the community. When the police arrive to protect your business from being broken into in the middle of the night, that is your community protecting you.
Business should not absorb the entire cost, but nor should the employees. The "left" point of view is simply that the better off in life you are, the greater your civic responsibility.
We all pay the same cost for a gallon of milk, for a gallon of gas, so you can't say that a millionaire's basic costs of living are that much greater then those of someone making minimum wage (and I do mean BASIC).. Sure, the rich living in million dollar houses, where the less fortunate live in apartments owned by the millionaires, where the rent helps pay for their million dollar homes.
No one is saying you need to pay all you make in taxes as a business owner. What they are saying is you should be paying the same percentage (or even slightly more) then those in the income bracket just below you.
Someone who makes 100,000 a year as an employee should not be paying three times more in taxes then someone who simply makes 100,000 off of his investments (including owning a business).
Lost has been the sense of civic involvement, replaced with the attitude of "What can government do for me and let someone else pay for".. This is not a left or a right issue, nor a poor or a rich one.
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