"It is an inefficient way to fund the federal government but it is better than shutting it down next week, " said Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye.
It is complex, inefficient, unfair, and it is the biggest tax in a federal revenue system that has not come close to paying for federal spending for more than a decade.
But perhaps the most cogent objection to Fairtrade is that it is an inefficient way to get money to poor producers.
This is a good thing: however delicious running the grain through a pig before it goes into a human it is an inefficient method of getting calories into a human.
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Some of it is lost to inefficient harvesting, storage and transportation, while the rest is wasted by markets or consumers.
It is also closing inefficient industrial facilities, tightened efficiency standards for buildings and appliances, and is expanding forest coverage.
And these reports confirm what any American can already tell you: our infrastructure is woefully inefficient and it is outdated.
Why do we demand bobbies on the beat even when we know it is an incredibly inefficient way of catching criminals?
In fact, it is an economically inefficient means of doing it.
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In many eyes, it is also an inefficient and inadequate programme.
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And it is a pretty inefficient market, truth be told.
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It is an inherently inefficient operation.
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Besides, greens often claim that the American economy is so energy-inefficient that it is littered with cheap carbon savings.
There is no serious argument that the rule would make the tax code more inefficient than it already is.
Although Europe's ban does keep out American imports and is partly motivated by a desire to protect inefficient European farmers, it is also a response to public fears about food safety.
The overlap is inefficient: it duplicates research and development, reduces economies of scale and destroys pricing power.
Immobile workers become stuck in jobs for which they are ill-suited, which is inefficient: it raises prices, reduces incomes and makes some jobs uneconomic.
If many Latin American companies are inefficient, it is partly because governments have allowed them to be so by not doing enough to stimulate competition.
It is cumbersome, expensive, inefficient and ineffective.
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The system is inefficient, but it supports a class of professional writers, which might not otherwise exist.
But if a rover on the Martian surface wants to send a file back to earth, this is an inefficient way of doing it.
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Infraero, the sluggish state-owned monopoly that operates them, is so inefficient that for years it has failed to spend even half its budget for airport upgrades.
But note that lock-in is inefficient (that is, it is a kind of market failure) only if the inferior product survives despite the fact that the benefits of switching would exceed the costs.
Applied Materials (nasdaq: AMAT - news - people ), are working to improve another thin-film technology that is extremely cheap but so inefficient it can't yet match First Solar in cost per kwh.
She says the food aid program is inefficient and, in fact, it may undermine local anti-poverty efforts.
But since Indonesia is a big and inefficient country, it has not been possible to centralise back-office operations.
It's true that mining oil sands is terribly inefficient and wasteful of water and natural gas when compared with pumping crude from conventional reservoirs.
This Sarkozy trade, as it is sometimes known in the markets, was an indirect (if inefficient) means for the ECB to support sovereigns.
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