• julianschmulian@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 年前

    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 年前

      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.