Sentence examples for decrease the surplus from inspiring English sources

"They had better do it and decrease the surplus population".

EBENEZER SCROOGE, eventual hero of Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol", famously suggests that the poor could "decrease the surplus population" by dying rather than entering the workhouse.

Baby love Charles Dickens's Ebenezer Scrooge suggested the poor could "decrease the surplus population" by dying rather than entering the workhouse.

And what the zombie media splurge may unconsciously express is not just a fear that people might become hostile but a desire to be free of the crowd — to "decrease the surplus population".

When asked to donate to the poor, he argues that his job is to work and pay taxes, while the job of the poor is to go to prison or to the workhouse, or simply to die and "decrease the surplus population".

Meanwhile, one-sixth of the U.S. population is without health insurance, and Republicans have decided that defeating Mr. Obama is more important than the welfare of 50 million Americans: Let them die and decrease the surplus population and be quick about it.

Over the past quarter-century, one very costly way of decreasing the surplus has been the imprisonment of people, mostly dark-skinned men, for actual and invented offenses.

An increase in the payroll tax rate τ reduces the real wage because it decreases the surplus that workers and employers share.

The selfish behavior of the relay will decrease the social surplus in a short-term, but it may lead to a higher expected revenue in a long-term.

While imports have decreased the trade surplus of Japan, the trend has been to the benefit of Japanese producers, who have increased competitiveness by using lower priced inputs.

The welfare analysis of trade interventions consists, therefore, in examining, and if possible measuring, how these interventions will increase or decrease the consumer and producer surplus, as well as generate fiscal revenues or costs and quota rents.