Your vote will affect Mick-O-Peg prices...

[MOPMan]

...in 2009. I'm no "Joe...", but face the same punishment if the Presidential candidate gets elected who wants small businesses to 'share' more. Please vote wisely (or plan to buy your Mick-O-Pegs before Jan 1st, 2009).

There's much less incentive for my 73 yr old brother and me to continue designing and making Mick-O-Pegs if we are forced to 'share' even more in income taxes.

[cdave]

So, if your net income is less than a quarter million from your business, are you going to lower your prices?

[MOPMan]

So, if your net income is less than a quarter million from your business, are you going to lower your prices?

Wrong question...but yes. If our costs go down, yes, our prices go down again - as we have dropped some model prices in the past.

[cdave]

Pretty good job of answering the wrong question. Your answer sounds fair to me. Hope you have a good year.

[asleeplessknight]

... So, you're saying if I am going to vote for: ....(the) Presidential candidate (that) gets elected who wants small businesses (who have a net income [after all expenses] over 250K) to 'share' more.... I should buy your product before January 09 cuz the tax on the difference between your company's net profits over 250K would be prohibitive to the continued design and manufacturing of the mick-o-pegs? Wow... that's heavy!

Congrats on Crossing that Quarter Million Dollar Profit Threshold!

Good job, guys! Keep up the good work! ;)

[MidnightBarbecue]

What happened to the first sarcastic response to this post? It was there Thursday morning but by evening it was gone!

[MOPMan]

... So, you're saying ... the tax on the difference between your company's net profits over 250K would be prohibitive to the continued design and manufacturing of the mick-o-pegs? Wow... that's heavy!


'Sorry. I didn't mean to imply that. We dont' make anywhere near 1/4 mil even with me retired pay, but I have to buy parts and services from other businesses that will be hurt by higher taxes. Those taxes will be passed on to us by higher costs, which we will need to pass on to our customers. This is much like the fact that we all pay for the higher price of fuel even if we walk to the store to buy something (because it was delivered by a truck). If businesses don't pass on their increased cost to customers, there is soon no reason to keep a business going.

Our government doesn't seem to realize that you can't give a person a 'free lunch' until someone pays for it, but they are real good at making us pay while they are doin' the promisin', aren't they? ('sorry if that sounds too political, but the fact is, the voters will be deciding things that will affect the price of our product).

[messenger13]

What happened to the first sarcastic response to this post? It was there Thursday morning but by evening it was gone!
I believe it was from NPlenzick. Perhaps he deleted it.

[asleeplessknight]

Our government doesn't seem to realize that you can't give a person a 'free lunch' until someone pays for it, but they are real good at making us pay while they are doin' the promisin', aren't they? ('sorry if that sounds too political, but the fact is, the voters will be deciding things that will affect the price of our product).


Fear is a great motivator. Especially for those (voters) who listen only to savants talented in a narrow profile of logic and reason who's only skill is sensationalizing and dismissing any notion of truth presented in irrefutable fact, by siting unsubstantiated sources--from pundits with no regard for truth on airways or blog sites--as factual evidence to elect one candidate over another. (It's all about getting your attention--the veracity of the content is irrelevent!)

If only the legal system rules of evidence and sworn testimony (yes, hand on the bible) were required for anyone opening their pie-hole wanting to vomit the indigestible rhetoric (in the name of truth) that is so endemic in today's public debate over who should be elected President--If that were the requisite to opening one's mouth to speak publicly, I submit that there would be little sensationalizing--there would be little evidence that the new guy, running for the highest office in the land, isn't the right candidate for the job.

Rhetoric and double talk got us into this mess... a steady hand, reason, truth, and tenacity, will get us out. There's only one, of the two candidates, who's demonstrated the mettle America requires of the President of The United States to bring that to fruition....IMHO, That's the question you need to answer on November 4th, when you mark your ballet.

[joelurker]

Rhetoric and double talk got us into this mess... a steady hand, reason, truth, and tenacity, will get us out. There's only one, of the two candidates, who's demonstrated the mettle America requires of the President of The United States to bring that to fruition....IMHO, That's the question you need to answer on November 4th, when you mark your ballet.Yes, but most polls show him to be a few points behind. He is going to have to gain some ground in order to win.

[asleeplessknight]

Yes, but most polls show him to be a few points behind. He is going to have to gain some ground in order to win.

:rotf:

[asleeplessknight]

Yes, but most polls show him to be a few points behind. He is going to have to gain some ground in order to win.

Joe :rotf:

[meese]

Well, I'm not really sure that this forum is the right place for this discussion, but I'll play along. :)

There's so much waste and corruption on both sides of the isle that arguments about "free lunches" and "passing on the costs" are pretty much moot. Cut 20-25% off the federal budget by getting rid of the obvious pork and waste and most of these problems would simply vanish.

I'd have a lot more interest in McCain if he actually could have any significant impact on curbing the amount of crap that gets passed through congress these days, but all I see is more talk and no real results.

That $700 trillion (as a start) is gonna cost us big time, and for a lot of years to come.

[hdfan]

That $700 trillion (as a start) is gonna cost us big time, and for a lot of years to come.


It amazes me to think that folks still believe that the current republican model is just fine and our economy and our business are just peachy. No need for any kind of change...

It is so crappy that the GOP is allowing McCain to dis the current party's plan just to provide some distance from it. McCain would last less than a day if had said the things he has said recently about the Bush economic plan a year ago. In the end he provides nothing really different than the past 8 years.

I bet Jim the Pegman could get some quality time if there was only one more debate.

[batdriver51]

Joelurker,
The only reason he's behind in the polls is the drive by media has been so in bed for the messiah, they would get down and lick his toes if only he would remove the shoe. Journalism had completely died. On top of that Acorn has been out perpetrating voter fraud in nearly every state ( at taxpayer expense no less). A shame that's the only way they can win.

[asleeplessknight]

Joelurker,
The only reason he's behind in the polls is the drive by media has been so in bed for the messiah, they would get down and lick his toes if only he would remove the shoe. Journalism had completely died. On top of that Acorn has been out perpetrating voter fraud in nearly every state ( at taxpayer expense no less). A shame that's the only way they can win.

The only reason he's behind in the polls is the drive by media has been so in bed for the messiah, they would get down and lick his toes if only he would remove the shoe.
"He's" behind in the polls because his plan is vague at best, he makes poor choices, and changes his mind as often as you change your underwear (presuming you're not going commando).

Journalism had completely died.
Getting to the bottom of issues doesn't come easy any more, you're right about that... you can't rely on Fox, NBC or any other "media" source solely on their merits.... and if you have limited access to more fact-oriented resources, you're screwed.

On top of that Acorn has been out perpetrating voter fraud in nearly every state ( at taxpayer expense no less). A shame that's the only way they can win.
ACORN was supported and praised by both candidates, and the voter registration fraud perpetrated is more on ACORN than anything else.
By the way, which party was running the country and had the most influence over the last eight years? It certainly wasn't the "other" one.

Even his home State, which should be solidly behind it's candidate, is beginning to show doubt. Absolutely, the media owns it's share of the mud that gets slung.. but the candidates own their campaigns and the direction their campaigns take.

Toss the religious innuendo and racial epithets in the trash. What's at play here is professional politics, at it's best... and it's worst. We are witnessing the most epic and historical election perhaps in our Nation's history...BE PROUD... THIS IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!

GET OUT AND VOTE!

[meese]

On top of that Acorn has been out perpetrating voter fraud in nearly every state ( at taxpayer expense no less). A shame that's the only way they can win.Funny, that sounds an awful lot like the last two major elections to me. Hanging chads my a$$.

It's been very informative watching Fox News. Every single thing they're complaining about now is a clear tactic that the Reds have used in the recent past. But when it's turned against them, they all scream the loudest. Takes one to know one, I'd say.

[batdriver51]

I don't care if both have propped up Acorn, my tax money should not used to support it. They should be abolished. Hey McCain is a liberal and not my choice but I will take him or any other American over a commie any day. Besides that, he has always been behind in his own state every election because he is a liberal.