Do you know where I could find a discounting table that has inflation (Escalating rate) in it as well?

Discount rate 4% and under would prefer 3.5% discount rate.

Answer:

When looking for an inflatable discount table I usually start my search at local liquidation warehouses. I know that in name this sounds like a place where you would be looking for water filled discount tables but, trust me, this is a scheme developed by the inflatable table industry to try to fool you into paying a liquid or in some cases even a solid price for a gas filled table.

I think that it is completely abhorrent the way these table industries operate and really think there should be more government laws (liquid, gas or solid) placed on them to protect the consumer.

Ultimately it's not the government laws, but the very laws of nature that govern these tables. The government laws (as in Plato's allegory of the cave) are just the shadows cast on the walls by the true laws of Nature.

In nature, energy transfer is required to change any material from it's current state to any other physical state. Where does this energy come from when a gas filled table is purchased at the price of a solid or liquid filled table? Well, let me outline it for you...

Let's say you buy a table at a liquidation store that requires you to use air (gas) from your lungs to inflate. First off, you have wrongfully paid a liquid filled table cost for a table that is to be gas filled. Second, you are required to supply the gas to fill the table. They pay nothing for this energy exchange, and you aren't allowed to charge them for the energy you will have to supply. Seems like a solid racket to me.

To get around this, I find an inflatable table at a liquidation warehouse, I demand that they inflate the table for me at an escalating rate, so I can make sure they are filling it with air and not removing air from i.t (If they were to remove all of the air from the table this is governed by the vacuum laws, and is an entirely separate issue) I pay liquid price for an already inflated table and end up getting your desired 3.5% discount rate plus a second discount rate of 1.5% that I just made up. Because, let's face it, laws were made to be broken!

Source(s):

Mendeleev, mostly.

What's so noble about these gases?