00:01
So here we're talking about taxes and we start by assuming some things and i just want to put those things right in so we are assuming a supply curve and a demand curve right so that's a story about a market quantity and price supply curve is upward sloping demand curve is downward sloping now we have a tax and it doesn't say who the tax is paid on but i'm going to say that the tax is on buyers right it's an excise tax so i'm going to treat it like a tax on buyer.
00:30
So this reduces demand, right? it reduces demand, shifting the demand curve down, leading to a new equilibrium, which relative to the initial equilibrium has a smaller quantity, right? so the correct answer here would be quantity decreases, right? looks like d, quantity decreases.
00:54
I, of course, assumed that it was on the demanders here, but if i put it on the suppliers, right, on supply, and i increase the cost of supply, this would also result in a decrease in quantity.
01:11
So in general, when you tax something, you get less of it...