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With funds freed up from administrative deadweight, Radcliffe can shift money into the research centers and educational programs that are its lifeblood...
Based on the arguments about downsizing at Harvard, one might think that across the Ivy League, all student governments had "deadweight" to cut from a large membership, but this is not the case. Twenty students represent an undergraduate population of 4,000 on the Columbia College Student Council and fewer than 30 students represent 12,000 undergraduates on the Cornell Student Assembly...
Eduardo J. Dominguez '01 advocatesrestructuring the council to includerepresentatives of extracurricular organizations,House committees and concentrations. Burton andResnick advocate reducing the number of councilmembers "to cut deadweight...
Although simplicity is important, the VAT's most significant benefits are its neutrality and fairness. Simply put, a VAT does not distort economic behavior. Economists generally agree that the best type of tax is one that does not change incentives, since incentives create deadweight losses and reduce consumer welfare more than necessary. Distortions result in inefficient allocations of resources, which slows growth and hurts everyone...
...Crimson noted in an article earlier this months, the council certainly has a problem with "deadweight;" a few of our members do very little. But the fact is, those on the council who are committed are very committed and, in their efforts to serve the student body, they make the most of the funds available...