you can model the tax on the supply or the demand. in most simple models the outcome is the same

actually that’s written with stone

well yeah, there’s only so much sexy to go around. how else do you propose we save some for spiders?

don’t forget ablutophobia

every dollar you raise, the fewer customers you get. the point is that you should want to raise the price whenever the relative drop in customers is less than the relative increase in price to maximise profits (where marginal cost is marginal benefit :) )

I’m a little confused. Don’t we want this to be as transparent as possible to limit conspiracies?