After your economics lecture one day, your friend suggests that taxing food would be a good way

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After your economics lecture one day, your friend suggests that taxing food would be a good way to raise revenue because the demand for food is quite inelastic.

In what sense is taxing food a ‘good’ way to raise revenue?

In what sense is it not a ‘good’ way to raise revenue?

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Economics

ISBN: 124344

2nd Edition

Authors: N. Gregory Mankiw

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