As I said: > There's always some sort of division of the overall dead weight loss My point is, a lot of people seem to think that the costumer _exclusively_ b

As I said: > There's always some sort of division of the overall dead weight loss My point is, a lot of people seem to think that the costumer _exclusively_ bears the cost of a tax hike. It is simply not true, positively so. > Just because companies end paying a part of the tax, it doesn't mean that the consumer isn't paying. That's tautological, unless there is a third entity that could be paying the remaining part of the tax. > Additionally, fewer people will enjoy the service which is bad for everyone. Arguably people will get to enjoy whatever the tax is funding, but will they want to? That's normative. I will not discuss preferences.