On Mar 30, 7:46*am, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
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What they don't realize, is that when taxes go up, people
say "I guess we won't buy that after all, we'll keep using
the old one."

Christopher A. Young

"buy that" being the investment in production machinery for the
component I helped develop, instead another order goes to China. Of
course this unintended negative consequence MUST be invisible in
government statistics, just like the deleterious effects of
environmental and employment regs. We have the society we asked for.