Window shopping can tell you a lot about what is going on... here a restaurant offers 15% discount off the tab if you pay cash. hmmm.. wonder why? Off the books means not taxed... lemme see... 100 taxed at 30% leaves 70; 85 taxed at nothing leaves... 85...! So the restaurant earns about 20% more by avoiding taxes.
Now over at Brooks Brothers, they are advertising military uniforms, with this dashing Navy Captain's uniform. During wartime, almost nobody in uniform actually sees combat, but nonetheless, all military underlings must salute officers. Economic downturns sometimes require a change of topic, like a war. With this spanking new uniform, what officer would not walk through crowded places to draw salutes?
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