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This number will vary quite s bit depending an the roaster. I am a small hobby roaster and I pay $4-6/lb for specialty grade beans. Since you lose about 20% in roasting, that comes out to $5-7/lb for finished product.As you buy more volume, that price can drop dramatically. Blend in some commodity grade and you can spend even less. A roaster like Starbucks probably pays a small fraction of that.Other expenses include gas for the roaster, employee wages, healthcare, etch, rent or payment for you location, electricity, taxes, and paying off equipment that starts in the tens of thousands and goes up depending on capacity.Each roaster will look at their costs and how much the market will pay and set their own margins. I can tell that in general that smaller roasters will have a much higher cost.

Here is a list of takers, who claim a significant amount of 'welfare' from the government, that may surprise a few people:Big Oil companiesIn the United States, credible estimates of annual fossil fuel subsidies range from $10 billion to $52 billion annually, while even efforts to remove small portions of those subsidies have been defeated in Congress, as shown in the graphic below. [1]Numerous large corporations including General Electric and BoeingEleven U.S. corporations including General Electric Co. (GE), Boeing Co. (BA) and Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) together reported $62 billion in domestic profits in 2010 while paying a negative 3.6 percent federal tax rate, according to data released today by Citizens for Tax Justice. [2]ExxonMobilExxon Mobil Corp.’s robust balance sheets have become a poster child for what The New York Times dubs the “paradox of the United States tax code.”The company’s large 2010 profits allowed them to lead Fortune 500’s annual ranking of the nations’ most profitable firms for the eighth time in a row. But the oil giant’s average effective tax rates are roughly half the 35 percent tax rate that currently stands as the high-water mark for American corporations. Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil and other big oil companies continue to exploit tax loopholes for nearly $4 billion in subsidies each year. These subsidies include write-offs for drilling costs and a deduction for domestic production that was intended for manufacturers, not big oil producers.Exxon Mobil registered an average 17.6 percent federal effective corporate tax rate on its annual earnings in the three years spanning 2008 to 2010. Its average domestic profits exceeded $6.8 billion. And as a 2011 Citizens for Tax Justice report points out:Over the past two years, ExxonMobil reported $9,910 million in pretax U.S. profits. But it enjoyed so many tax subsidies that its federal income tax bill was only $39 million—a tax rate of only 0.4 percent. [3]Sources:[1] http://priceofoil.org/fossil-fuel-subsidies/[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-01/tax-subsidies-at-ge-boeing-and-fedex-targeted-by-d-c-group.html[3] http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/news/2011/05/11/9625/exxon-mobil-dodges-the-tax-man/

By revising the tax code in a way that promotes those objectives.Thanks to 40 years of conditioning to bad national policy, the American people have a notion that tax increases are anathema to economic growth. In long term practice however, this has been far from the case. In fact, the first two sustained periods of economic growth in the aftermath of the Great Depression (1933–53, and roughly 1957–70) were during times when both businesses and individuals had much higher tax burdens if they didn’t conduct themselves in a manner conducive to the overall welfare of the nation.In the 1950’s and 60’s for example, the default tax rate on corporate earnings hovered around 50%. While this impeded people who thought they were going to make money simply by investing in companies like General Electric, this tax rate gave enormous incentive to General Electric to invest its earnings in research, development, manufacturing and most important - its people.The Reagan era began changing this dynamic, eschewing things Americans uniformly recognized as noble, desirable characteristics in business (see above), things that favored long term, sustained growth and prosperity in favor of the quick-hit, get it now and screw the future mindset we have today.