[fmobus]

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.