If the government taxes a steel company by an amount equal to the damages of each marginal ton of steel, then the steel company's marginal cost curve is the same as the marginal

A. private cost curve.
B. social cost curve.
C. damage cost curve.
D. benefit cost curve.


Answer: B

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