Quote Originally Posted by KerrAvon View Post
You do realise that the car buying thing is an analogy don't you? I used it to try to explain how a number of factors play into the making of a decision in a business or otherwise.

It would be ridiculous to take other costs out of the equation, because that is not how decisions are made. Or maybe that is how you do make decisions and you'd buy the more expensive car, because the paint element of the total price.

Widget man can't take other costs out of the equation, because he is running a business. He can't decide to forget that, say, the English Channel, means that he has to pay far more than his German rival in transport costs when selling into Europe (Ireland excepted).

I can't recall if you are a betting person, but I believe there is a concept called handicapping where some horses have to carry additional weight. Well, the UK is handicapped by it's location.

P.s. If you decided to buy you car in Germany, you'd pay foreign exchange costs and have to pay to get it back to the UK, which is kind of part of the point I'm making.

P.p.s. You didn't answer my question: which approach is more job creation friendly - upping the minimum wage and reducing corporation tax or upping them both?
And you havent answered mine, you've just dodged again, and of course i realise the car dealer thing was an analogy, but once again you're playing the lawyer, moving the goalposts to suit your argument and try and dilute mine, leave your job at home and try and look at it like a normal person would instead of trying to find an angle that suits you.

We're talking about corporation tax arent we, ours is at 20%, Germany's at 30%, given that, our goods are potentially 10% cheaper, of course the extra costs of exporting those goods to Germany could be considered, that doesn't take away from the fact that we're still cheaper in terms of corporation tax. We export 50% to the EU, in your analogy i really wonder how on earth we manage to do that given those companies must, by your words, be loss making, it's not that hard Kerr, stop trying to flannel and squirm.