cpap.com vs dme

Rabid1 · Post by **Rabid1** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:16 pm

mattman wrote:
Rabid1 wrote:Could someone PLEASE show me a federal regulation that prohibits the sale of chin straps etc....

I don't think it exits, except in Matt's mind.
Yeah, I'm just making it all up.... I enjoy making life more difficult for myself and my customers. It's all part of my evil plot to drive myself bankrupt! One of these days I'll show myself! Man I hope when it happens I'm there to watch too!

Oh, and here's one I had handy. This is, as it says, from a softcap. Yes, a piece of elastic!!

mattman

Matt,

I have the package of the Respironics Comfort Gel Nasal Mask, and there's no such warning on it.

I'm still not convinced.

DreamStalker · Post by **DreamStalker** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:05 pm

TANSTAF1 wrote:dreamstalker, where do the corporations get the money to pay their taxes?

The answer: from you and other consumers (from the increased selling price for their goods and services to cvoer the cost of those taxes).

If corporations didn't pay taxes, in a free society and in one in which the government has not aided and abetted a monopoly or has regulated prices, they would have to reduce the price for their product or service, or a competitor would do so and take their business away. They would not get a "free one." Their revenues would be decreased and their owners (stockholders) would be getting less earnings and be paying higher income taxes for those earnings.

Follow the money.

But, we can't do away with corporate taxes because of government established monopolies and/or price regulations.

I PMed my response to you since this is indeed an off-topic discussion as well as controversial.

dataq1 · Post by **dataq1** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:14 pm

The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), 21 U. S. C. §301 et seq. , grants the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as the designee of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the authority to regulate, among other items, "drugs" and "devices," §§321(g)-(h), 393.