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Suppose that the government dislikes producers of widgets and wants to punish them, but wants to avoid punishing consumers of widgets. It decides therefore to make widget sellers pay $5 in tax for every widget sold. Will this tax punish widget sellers? Will it punish widget buyers? Why or why not?

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