Put it another way, it might be worth incurring what economists would call some "deadweight loss" to make them happen.

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This policy will hurt the world, because it causes inefficiencies (deadweight loss).

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The economic inefficiency, or deadweight loss, would not matter.

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The 9-9-9 Plan is a member of what I call the family of taxonomically equivalent tax systems, which define the tax base in an economically proper manner, albeit in different forms, and minimize the deadweight-loss tax burden on the economy.

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On the best allowance, there are too few conceivable advantages to measure against this deadweight of clear loss.

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