I guess you're trying to troll here, but I daresay you haven't heard me trying to make any dodgy connections between causes and events. But please do stereotype on. I makes you look so boss-like.

Wired has it.

Not sure why you're getting slammed by mods. This is truth. If big oil disappeared, you'd be up a creek. If big pharma went away, you might die. If the industrials went away, our infrastructure would rot.

If FaceBook disappeared? The world would actually be a better place. Tesla isn't perfect; I like electric cars but I hate some of the big brother that's coming along for the ride. Same deal though, we could live without them and somebody else will eventually pick up their patents and make electrics that are more affordable.

That's beside your point though. Your thesis is valid--buy value when it's priced properly. Futuristic vision and trends aren't value. Stuff people need is value, but it's overpriced now due to Fed manipulation.

The ultimate housecleaning, if you believe it's coming, is to be a simple matter of justice carried out by a righteous God.

Sure, individual businesses would raise prices if they could. But you're missing the point of a tax.

Example 1: There are 50 auto dealers in a state. One dealer decides to raise his prices across the board because like you said "If they could, they would." He goes out of business.

Example 2: There are 50 auto dealers in a state. The state raises taxes on car dealers 30%. Now all dealers raise their prices 30%.

Now I ask you "Who is paying that 30% increase?"

Businesses can't print money. Well, other than the Reserve. But that's a different matter. Any money a business pays out for any reason has to originally come from an individual somewhere.

Oh dear Lord.

Raising the tax rate to 75% is a stimulant to the economy?

Wow.

Yeah, force the Germans to pay reparations. What could possibly go wrong?

This is the same kind of thing that was said in the US. The space program had more "spin-off" benefits than I can list. Computers, solar cells, etc. were all advanced by contributions from space research. If it hadn't been for computers in particular, I don't know what kind of work I would have had. It probably wouldn't have been such a good ride for me, and I was never directly employed by NASA. Yes. There are still poor people in the USA... carrying pocket computers.

Power to the sphincter!

Possibly the evidence of a lack of evidence.

The first rule of economics is "Businesses do not pay taxes. Businesses collect taxes."

Of course politicians make sure that the public doesn't understand such things with demagoguery.

Power to the blamers! There is far too much power to be garnered from inflaming (occasionally real, but often wholly manufactured) biases.
But things like the Rolling Stone UVA rape hoax, global warming, GamerGate, &c have blown the lid off what a bunch of cheap hucksters the Grievance Industrial Complex are.
Go back to hell and stay there, creeps.

"'Doesn't carry all the bad PR', fustakrakich? Apparently you weren't paying much attention during the last election," said Mitt Romney.

"Sustainable" is the biggest unintentionally funny concept going. The atomic mokita is that the world economy, itself, is unsustainable. Whatever Ehrlichian silliness you care to trot out is currently in the process of correcting itself using the traditional means: war.