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From: Adam.Frix@f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
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Subject: Re: anti-educational discount legislati
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Date: 7 Oct 89 01:07:23 GMT
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John Proctor writes:
 
> > DON'T FORGET SOMETHING HERE, this legislation also impacts
> > every computer manufacture and MANY others have discount
> > programs for educational institutions
> > 
> > Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U *
> > t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu
> 
> Before you all get incensed, remember there is no such thing
> as a free lunch! The rest of us poor working slobs are
> paying for your discounts. Corporate America is not, I
> repeat, NOT a charitable institution! Sooo all you
> educational types remember who is paying for your discounts!
 
 
 
Of course, John, as we all know, Corporate America is perfectly free to
take its business elsewhere and not support said educational discounts. 
In fact, I would heartily suggest that any CEO who objects to paying a
little extra because of these discounts, _should_ take his business
elsewhere.  That's because I like to see the free market work and survive. 
By the same token, I'd like to see these upset retailers strung up by the
thumbs.  That's because I don't like to see the free market corrupted by a 
few businessmen who think they can buy a few congressmen and hence a
little legislation to guarantee their profits.  If the retailers are
upset, I tell them the same thing I tell Corporate America--don't do
business with the "offending" corporation.  Nobody is putting a gun to
their heads and telling them to sell Apple computers.  So maybe these
retailers should go ahead and sell something else on which they can make
what they think is their "fair" profit.
 
--Adam--


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