Who Pays the Hormuz Toll?

04/21/2026 Kristoffer Mousten Hansen

According to Rothbard’s first law of incidence, “no tax can be shifted forward.” That is, the person or company paying the tax cannot make the buyer pay the tax.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/who-pays-hormuz-toll

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