The use of tax penalties to control pollution represents a

a. price-based market approach to the pollution problem.
b. non-market approach to the pollution problem.
c. major source of current federal revenues.
d. pollution-rights solution to the pollution problem.


a

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a. both producers of automobiles and consumers of automobiles in that nation became better off as a result. b. the gains to automobile producers in that nation exceeded the losses of the automobile consumers in that nation. c. the gains to automobile consumers in that nation exceeded the losses of the automobile producers in that nation. d. even though total surplus in that nation decreased, it was still true that consumer surplus and producer surplus increased.

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