Re: Things that hurt manufacturing....



On May 14, 9:55 am, "vinny" <vi...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Charlie Gary" <cg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On May 13, 4:46 pm, "vinny" <vi...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Taxes on products. Especially large increases in them. When you raise the
cost of a soda from 50 cents to 58 cents, you really hurt the sale of
sodas.
Because people will be charged a rounded off amount of 60 cents and it
will
happen instantly, causing anger.

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Promised funding for upgrades in tooling.
For example, forcing a car manufacturer to retool to build a certain
product(hydrogen cars) by heavy funding(free crack), then After the
retooling is half thru cutting that funding off.

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Five years ago B&O taxes in Seattle were around 38%. Now they're up
to about 55%. I hope it won't be too much longer before this shop
gets a new address.

Later,

Charlie

What's B and O taxes?
Body Oder is all I can come up with lol

Business and Occupation tax.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%26O_tax

Later,

Charlie
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