Securing a dumpster

[Noozer]

Is your government still running on a deficit?

[John Hines]

Flatten the boxes? Besides making them unusable, it saves dumpster space.

Better yet would be to bundle and recycle it. In my days of retail decades ago, I remember feeding and unloading box baler, it was worth saving them up for a periodic pickup of a whole semi load worth.

The idea of leaving decent ones of the size preferred by the homeless outside for them is a kindness that would be paid in heaven.

[Steve Barker]

How does that drive up your cost of doing business?

steve

[DerbyDad03]

Falling dollar: Good for those of us heavily invested in international securities, especially those traded in local currencies. I promise that when I harvest my profits, I'll put them back into the US economy.

[Stormin Mormon]

The money to rescue the fat woman comes out of my taxes. Taxes are paid by business, and by consumers.

[Douglas Johnson]

This is the first year in quite a while (1994?) that the Democrats control the purse. Our current hole was dug by Republicans.

-- Doug

[dpb]

"Business" only pays taxes w/ monies collected from -- you guessed it -- consumers, either directly or indirectly...

[Kurt Ullman]

Our current hole goes back to around the LBJ. It has been an equal opportunity cluster (well you know) for years made worse by the creative accounting of Social Security (again bipartisan in nature) that effectively hid the real costs of both SS and general spending. Interestingly enough if you look at 5 year increases in spending, the last five years under the GOP was pretty much the same %age increase as the last five years under the Dems from '89 to 94. There was a brief shining moment between about '94 and '99 where the %age increase was about half that. But the GOP got over it. In spades.

[Kurt Ullman]

Not technically. There are essentially three ways to pay taxes. One is through pricing as you noted. When pricing is less elastic, then it comes out of the pocket of either shareholder (reduced bottom line and thus reduced stock price and/or lower dividends) or through reduced spending (including wages, R&D, capital expenditures, etc.) which takes money out of the pockets of other people.

[Bob F]

Like never before.

Bob

[Bob F]

On average Lower income families have seen a decrease.

Bob