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This is the case with any form of government financing - taxes, deficits, and inflation all introduce market distortions where they reduce productive activity. This is inherent to economics, because a basic principle is that there is no free lunch: if you are going to spend resources on spending, those resources have to come from somewhere else, and the private sector by definition is the "not public sector".

But if you don't accept these deadweight losses, which means that there is no way of funding a government, which means that the essential services a government provides - notably a monopoly on violence and a peaceful way of adjudicating disputes - no longer exist. This is more damaging to businesses - when business every business needs to hire a protection racket to avoid being ripped off and killed, productive activity tends to come to a halt.



Different taxes have different amounts of dead weight losses.

For instance, land value tax has no dead weight loss. Corporate tax has one of if not the highest dead weight loss.




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