In 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson imposed the Chicken Tax-a 25 percent tax on all imported light trucks in retaliation for a tariff placed by Germany on chickens imported from the United States. The light-truck tariff hurt Volkswagen van sales. Were these tariffs good or bad from the following perspectives?
a. The U.S. government.
b. German consumers of chickens.
c. U.S. chicken producers.
d. U.S. light truck producers.
e. Economists.