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Subject: Re: Companies *do* pay taxes
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Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 14:22:00 EDT
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> A customer making a choice between equivalent products made by
> competing companies will choose the least expensive one (at least
> according to the "rational person" premise of economic theory).

I don't know what all the "rational person" premise says,
but I do know from a few marketing courses that price
isn't the only factor a person considers when making a
purchase decision.  Any argument that starts from that
premise is suspect in my mind.

Dennis R. Vogel
AT&T Information Systems
Middletown, NJ