• enragedchowder@lemmy.ca
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      3 年前

      It literally doesn’t. The price is the same either way. Reduced demand from the higher tax makes it so producers will lower prices. This is really basic microeconomics.

      From Wikipedia: “tax burden does not depend on where the revenue is collected, but on the price elasticity of demand and price elasticity of supply”

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence

      • irmoz@reddthat.com
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        3 年前

        Reduced demand from the higher tax makes it so producers will lower prices.

        I have never once seen this happen… i just see prices rise