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39. I don't disagree however

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 09:34 PM

Dec 2012

It is common sense that the higher taxes and more regulations i.e. obamacare etc will have to be paid for are you arguing that somehow these evil business owners are actually altruistic?

I didn't think so, the point is you increase the costs of doing business and the business either increases prices or lays off workers if there were more efficiency to fix the problem a savy business owner would already have factored that in for higher profit margin..

This is free market capitalism you can't have it both ways, either they succeed and that means getting rich or they go out of business, now don't get me wrong I would argue there are probably many business owners that are altruistic and think of the greater good but they are the minority in this capitalist world.

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