"I don't suppose you have any reasonable evidence of this, do you? The only thing anyone else can provide is one line in one paper by one economist. And even that economist states that the results are probably overstated because of the peculiarities of his model. When I do the math, the numbers don't add up."
I wonder the same thing. I also would tend to believe that those have hiked the price to cover said taxes would just love to keep the product price the same and just wallow in the profits. I do have to say though I would love to be able to save my money and spend it how I choose incurring taxes only when I did spend it.