dead-weight

However, as any introductory microeconomics textbook explains, taxes have associated dead-weight losses.

Tired, Old Keynesian Plan Is Hauled Out of the Trunk 2011

Or we have pro-growth policies that make the economy grow so the dead-weight cost of government becomes a smaller percentage of the economy and therefore less expensive.

Grover Norquist: ‘The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit’ 2011

All the money I have spent on lawyers is pure dead-weight loss to me and to the society.

Matthew Yglesias » Estate Tax History 2010

Thus, in markets where dead-weight losses occur as a result of taxation, it is reasonable to infer that government spending destroys more jobs than it creates, as taxes are not perfectly efficient transfers.

Tired, Old Keynesian Plan Is Hauled Out of the Trunk 2011

Ossified knowledge is a dead-weight to the world, and it does not matter in what realm of man's intellectual activities it is found...

Dana Ullman: Disinformation on Homeopathy: Two Leading Sources Dana Ullman 2011

Back when duplication of recordings was more expensive, the dead-weight losses were much less damaging, economically.

Matthew Yglesias » The Futile Struggle Against Free Content 2010

According to Cato, reducing low-skilled immigration “biases the occupational mix of employment” of the entire economy towards lower-paying jobs and is ultimately a “dead-weight loss.”

Wonk Room » Libertarian Think Tank Cites Economic Benefits Of Pro-Immigration Policies 2009

Or we have pro-growth policies that make the economy grow so the dead-weight cost of government becomes a smaller percentage of the economy and therefore less expensive.

Grover Norquist, committed tax opponent, sees new dynamic in politics 2011

The way the poor Elsinore pitches, plunges, rolls, and shivers, with all her lofty spars and masts and all her five thousand tons of dead-weight cargo, is astonishing.

CHAPTER XIII 2010

If a relatively less socialist or plutocratic government (such as the US) were to collect oil or gas taxes, the dead-weight loss would be smaller, probably leaving the pigovian effect big enough to justify them.

The Pigou Club's Powerful Members, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009