CarlsBerg Economics

One fine morning after waking up around 10’o clock, I just opened my mail box…As usual there were 100’s of  forward msgs  Among them subject of one message was alarming.(ie If you didn't forward this mail to atleast 10 people ,then you will go to  hell…bla…bla..) ..This kindled my inquisitiveness to open the mail

Here the story goes…..

Ten guys went to bar to drink Carlsberg Beer(My dear male friends ,I am not sure if you like this brand!).The bar owner asked them to pay the bill of Rs100 .They decided to pay the bill based on their livelihood status.

This is congruous with the way, taxes are paid in India.

First 4 guys (The destitute)= Rs 0(Their income level is low)

 The fifth guy=Rs 1

 The sixth guy=Rs 2

 The seventh guy=Rs 6

 The eighth guy=Rs 7

 The ninth guy=Rs 25

 The tenth guy(The Opulent)=Rs 59

This was their customary task. They seemed to be quite happy with this fabulous scheme.

One fine day ,the bar owner wanted to  make his  regular customers happy by giving some discount .So he informed  them to pay the bill of Rs 80.

 Now they decided to carve up the profit in the same way they did for paying the bill early.

The first four guys cannot enjoy the profit, since if they were permitted to share the profit , then they should  have paid for their CarlsBerg.

The fifth guy enjoys a discount of Rupee 1. Now he joins the first four guys group.

The sixth guy enjoys a discount of Re 1.

The seventh guy saves Rs 2.So its enough if he pays just Rs 4.

The eighth guy enjoys a discount of Rs 2.So its enough if he pays just Rs 5

The ninth guy enjoys a discount of Rs 3.He pays just  Rs 22.

The tenth guy enjoys a discount of  Rs 11.He just pays Rs 48.

Since the richest guy enjoys maximum profit(Rs 11),other nine guys yelled at him. They thought  that the rich  will become richer and  the poor  will become poorer. 
"If the free society cannot help the many who are poor ,then they cannot save the few who are rich"-Kennedy.
So they killed the richest guy.

The next day the nine guys went to the bar to drink Carlsberg. After they drank they were shocked on looking at the bill,since they can’t even pay half of the bill. They just have forty one rupees (0+0+0+0+1+2+6+7+25=41) which is less than Rs 90.

Moral: If we don't give tax benefits to rich people. They may fly to the most economy friendly country where they can enjoy tax benefits. Like the remaining nine guys we cannot survive without the richest. So we cannot ask rich people to pay beyond a certain level. Their existence is important.So my dear friends before blaming government for not levying high taxes for rich people ,please do remember this Carlsberg Economics. We have to accept the fact that we wanted capitalism and so we have to bear the pain of the injection ,if we want to be cured from illness.As much as I'm tempted to relate this to Karl Marx's philosophy and mind numbing economic theories, I'm conscious that I want the victory symbol as well,and thus bid adieu with this. 

Cheers,

G’tami.