colliehauler wrote:Since most commodities are shipped by rail the cost to consumers is minimal. In any event, when CA lettuce becomes to expensive people will simply buy lettuce from Az or Mexico; or not buy it at all and eat cottage cheese from WI instead. I stopped drinking coffee when the price spiked a while back. In reality, the people in CA are the ones that will bare the majority of the burden; they got what they apparently want.
While a lot of people don't live there it still effects them as well. California is responsible for a lot of the food we eat. The higher cost of fuel will be passed on to the consumer.
2oldman wrote:
I don't care.
colliehauler wrote:
While a lot of people don't live there it still effects them as well. California is responsible for a lot of the food we eat. The higher cost of fuel will be passed on to the consumer.
wing_zealot wrote:I don't know if agricultural diesel will be effected by the rise in tax. Transportation is just a small part of fuel consumption. Commodities rise in price because of supply and demand. You are correct in that if enough products are,available from lower cost sources it should have minimal impact on prices.colliehauler wrote:Since most commodities are shipped by rail the cost to consumers is minimal. In any event, when CA lettuce becomes to expensive people will simply buy lettuce from Az or Mexico; or not buy it at all and eat cottage cheese from WI instead. I stopped drinking coffee when the price spiked a while back. In reality, the people in CA are the ones that will bare the majority of the burden; they got what they apparently want.
While a lot of people don't live there it still effects them as well. California is responsible for a lot of the food we eat. The higher cost of fuel will be passed on to the consumer.
bob_nestor wrote:History disagrees with that viewpoint. Prior to 1986 (when Reagan eviscerated the tax code), close to 90% of all government spending was financed by corporations and billionaires. Now that burden has shifted to the middle class. When you give tax breaks to wealthy and corporations, they don't miraculously create jobs. They squirrel it away offshore as fast as they can, thus removing those dollars from the US economy entirely. This is very, very bad for us.
Most people don't seem to get the point that the increased taxes on the rich and corporations get passed on to those who buy the goods and services from them. I've always maintained that the only people who actually pay taxes are the Middle Class - the rich can pass them onto others, the poor get tax breaks. Businesses are only acting as tax collectors for the Government.
