Dear Rev. Bie, If you own a store you buy product from a wholesaler. You must amortorize: Profit Mortgage payments Electric, phone, water, sewer Wages of employees Cost of store fixtures (tables racks, etc) in the prices you charge for your murchantize. If you do not calculate all these expenses you will go out of business very quickly. This is not unAmerican, that is a fact of life and the cost of doing business. We piano technicians have but our time and our expertise to offer our customers, who MUST pay all the pipers, and more that I listed. If you give your time away you will have nothing to bring to your family, your mortgage banker, your credit card holders, your baby sitter, you hair dresser and the resturant you want to go to next Saturday night. We cannot charge one customer a full day's wage if that customer is the only one we have for that day, but the rest of the time can be spent in the office, getting the car services, phoning customers, mowing the grass and working in the shop. Newton nhunt@jagat.com
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