Many Environmentalists Have Advocated a Substantial Increase in the Gasoline

Multiple Choice

Many environmentalists have advocated a substantial increase in the gasoline tax to cut down the federal deficit and to reduce pollution due to auto emissions.Such a tax increase would be devastating to people who commute significant distances to work.In fact, it would provide an incentive to relocate closer to work or change jobs.Economists refer to such effects of taxes as the

A) burden of a tax.
B) regressive incidence of a tax.
C) incidence of a tax.
D) excess burden of a tax.