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Re: FOIA For Photos (Originally Re: Cop Incident) |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Fri Nov 23 10:46:55 2007, in response to Re: FOIA For Photos (Originally Re: Cop Incident), posted by Olog-hai on Thu Nov 22 22:59:54 2007. A fair market value would be the cost of the raw material, plus the cost of labor, plus the amortized cost of the plant, its equipment, utilities and taxes, plus a fair profit in return to the investors.To this amount is added the costs of the transportation, the costs and profits of the wholesale establishment, more transportation, and the costs, overhead and profits to the retail establishment. Any one of these links *could* have a usurious profit applied which might be unethical and as you say "stealing from the poor to bloat the rich", and unfortunately, such *does* happen. But this is not against the law, and you are free to purchase similar merchandise from a more reliable, honest, and less costly vendor. Thus it is *supposed* to be the market that keeps business people honest in their efforts to put the lowest price before the consumer. WalMart helps to this extent. But of course we all know what Democrats think of WalMart (even as they spend their dollars there). But WalMart has a lot of vertical organization, from the import at the edge of the dock directly to the store shelf with their own distribution system. Thus they are also able to cut out the middleman, something that other merchants cannot do. ROAR |
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