Tell all your friends: the success of chain restaurants may not be due to consumer preference.
A recent government report shows that the majority of U.S. corporation pay no federal taxes. This insight drops a bomb on the idea of "fair competition" between, among other things, restaurants. Add to this that major restaurant chains often get paid by cities to move in, citing "job creation."
What this adds up to: even though a chain like McDonalds has all the clout, technical expertise, and supply-chain advantage that their economies of scale deliver to them, this is apparently not enough. They are actually supported by the taxes that you and I pay. Their supplies are delivered on roads we pay for, they are protected by our police force and firefighters, and who-knows-what-else. Is it any wonder our neighborhood restaurants have a hard time competing?
Posted by Sam at April 7, 2004 10:18 AMsome how i missed this post of yers
big big subject
all over service sector
chains v locals
especially micro one shots
real square off
property tax brakes
zoning regs
code inspections
labor laws
can't say how all that cuts
as to supply cost advantages
do to size
and attraction strength
thru mega marketing
they
got predict ability
you little's
got unique ability
a toss up ?
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what about big mac inc
is more
then just formal subsumption
of eatin out
under capitalistic guidelines
what actually
represents technical
transformation
do to exploitation drives
right there at point of aquisition
that is "labor saving"
in the prep/serve process
shit
thats fer
you textperts to figure
yes I have nothing better to do than peruse your site.
anyway, stinky gao seems to have taken down this report of which you speak and replaced it with another... on the clean-up of radioactive waste @ Paducah.
i'll take your word for it though, those crafty corporate buggers... and their poly-tricking lackeys who protect their wicked ways. they should all be forced to move their offices to louisiana, where they can experience some double-taxation (i suppose in this case it'd add-up to single taxation)
Posted by: tiny on July 16, 2004 02:23 AMthanks for the, um, compliment?
I've updated the link, but I have no assurance that it's a permalink (as the old one apparently wasn't), so here's the relevant info:
An estimated average of 61% of US Corporations claimed no tax liability in the years 1996 through 2000.
89% claimed 5% or less of their total income.
Double nothing is still nothing...