G.R. Patterson III wrote:


Wdtabor wrote:

A tax placed on bakers with names starting with the letters A to M could not be
passed on to the customers because of competition from bakers with
alphabetically later names, but a tax placed on ALL bakers simply raises the
cost of bread, since there are no alternate sources for the product unaffected
by that cost.


So does the tax on bakers with names starting with the letters A to M. Many of them
will go out of business, reducing competion and allowing the remaining bakers to
raise prices.

Baloney, they'll just change their names so they start with a "good" letter.