To raise revenues, the city of st. cloud required restaurants to purchase a special permit if they wanted to serve food in an open-air patio. (this is in addition to the sanitation inspection license.) while at hola taco, a restaurant in st. cloud, a customer notices that hola taco's permit expired. this mean the customer is not legally required to pay for her food. true or false?

when taxes are levied on transactions, irrespective of the party they are levied on, a. the government can absorb some of the surplus, but also creates a social loss since some of the wealth creating transactions are discouraged b. the government can absorb all the producer surplus from the transactions as revenue c. the government can absorb all of the surplus (producer and consumer) d. the government can absorb all the consumer surplus from the transactions as revenue