Originally Posted by
flybynuts
First have you heard a couple of phrases like "no free lunch" and "raise prices we are having a sell'?
The tax holiday idea is weak. I, as a consumer, can choose not to participate, Its that simple. If I want, I can find the cheapest product for the price too under free market theory as well. What the market bears directly reflects the current market conditions.
Sigh . . . I suppose if I went on an economics forum, I'd find the contributors debating the best way to fly aircraft.
My comments deal with brand marketing and consumer expectations (do consumers recognize that some low cost carriers raise prices while some trunk carriers don't, etc.), not economics.
If you want to have a economics dual, then lets set some ground rules: the main quad of your alma mater or mine, @ 5 paces, we both wheel around, throwing our economics textbooks @ each other. Repeat until one of us cries 'mercy' or 'Milton Friedman and John Keynes are liars'!
I've never heard the phrase 'raise prices we are having a sell' though. Learn something new every day, huh?