As advocates of drug liberalisation have found, the deadweight of popular opinion admits of little dissent.
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The deadweight cost of capital taxation is higher than that of consumption, property or income taxation.
You will note that consumption taxes have lower deadweight costs than capital and corporation taxes.
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Now ask: Is our wealth generating new wealth or is it just sitting there like deadweight?
Corporation taxes, unfortunately, have along with capital taxes, the highest deadweight costs for the revenue they raise.
Too much of the deadweight and decay in our current corporatist system is found at the top.
For example, here is the OECD empirical work on the deadweight costs of various forms of tax.
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His monetarist economic ideas are a deadweight burden on the shoulders of Menachem Begin and the Israeli economy.
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On the best allowance, there are too few conceivable advantages to measure against this deadweight of clear loss.
More deadweight can be gotten rid of by getting Dennis Hastert to resign as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
It has been accompanied by a rise in debt burdens that will be a deadweight on economies for many years.
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Put it another way, it might be worth incurring what economists would call some "deadweight loss" to make them happen.
This policy will hurt the world, because it causes inefficiencies (deadweight loss).
Those with the least deadweight effect are repetitive taxes on real property.
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And we have a spectrum of deadweight costs associated with various taxes.
The freight forwarder and ship charterer has grown into a major shipowner with 1.8 million deadweight tonnage and 45 international routes in service.
Whereas French and Italian fashion students labour under the deadweight of tradition and past glory, she says, British students are encouraged to be individualistic.
He doubts whether enough new managers would be attracted to make up for the deadweight cost of giving a tax break to existing ones.
The 5% target was what the Treasury calls the deadweight cost.
Indeed, some would argue that the spur of such a tax leads to more efficient allocation of the resources and thus to a negative deadweight cost.
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However, China slapped a 350, 000 deadweight ton limit on vessels docking at its ports to protect its shipping industry and reduce its dependence on imported iron ore.
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At that depth stopping the flow with a deadweight of drilling fluid should create few problems, once the exceedingly difficult challenge of hitting the well is met.
But smoother increases in marginal tax rates, as under current law, create less economic friction, and fewer deadweight losses, then those with a number of peaks and valleys.
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Hongkong Bank's shipping arm estimates that rates for chartering the biggest ships, those over 100, 000 deadweight tonnes, have fallen by almost half since the start of the year.
It's what economists call a "deadweight loss" loss caused by inefficiency.
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The economic inefficiency, or deadweight loss, would not matter.
You may think the answer is protectionism to stop the trade from happening in the first place, but the deadweight losses are likely to be even larger for protectionism than for transfers.
The Conservatives have accepted that offering general tax relief on health insurance would be too expensive, given the deadweight cost of extending it to the more than 6m individuals who are already covered.
Some taxes have higher deadweight costs than others.
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