• julianschmulian@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    do you have a source for this? because obviously it‘s utter bullshit, just looking at the recent tax cuts for german gas stations which were decidedly NOT „passed onto the consumer“

    • gowan@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      It’s general economics knowledge. The word should is doing some heavy lifting as it isn’t always. If everyone decides to pocket the extra profit there would be no reason for a business not to do the same unless they believe they will make enough extra profit by dropping the price.