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Originally Posted by classicman

Who defines what is ethical?

I think most people know what is ethical and what isn't, but in business, most people choose to ignore it.

How would you regulate that and who are you proposing should be in charge of that oversite?

It's the same thing with increasing business taxes. They are a cost of producing a product or service and that gets added into the cost the end user pays.

Baloney. More than half of the corporations in this country don't pay any taxes. ZERO. THAT is wrong. And they STILL charge us more. When Nike moved all of it's factories overseas, did the price of a pair of shoes go down? HELL NO, even though their costs went down drastically and it only cost them a few cents to make them. Some of those people earn something like a dollar a freaking week. Is that ethical? I think not. And I was talking about companies that are charged fines for polluting, or dumping toxic waste, or for other unethical and illegal things for which corporations get fined. They should not be allowed to pass THAT on to their customers, because they are the ones who fucked up. So why should their customers pay their fines? Especially if it is something which people have no choice in using, like power companies or cable companies.