Graphically represent the following: A corrective tax that achieves the socially optimal output A corrective tax that moves the market output farther away from the socially optimal output than was the case before the tax was applied

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Graphically represent the following:

  1. A corrective tax that achieves the socially optimal output

  2. A corrective tax that moves the market output farther away from the socially optimal output than was the case before the tax was applied

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