For instance, the budgetary savings could be used to reduce other distorting taxes or to alleviate poverty in a more targeted and efficient way".
This emphasis on observation of natural behaviour-in-context affords insight into behavioural influences without the distorting influence of memory and psychological defense mechanisms.
This is not necessarily a bad thing, given that all taxes are distorting, and that there really is no way to deal with today's outsize debt burdens that does not impinge on growth in some way.
This perhaps isn't surprising - religious conservatives have a long and ignoble history of distorting research to fit their religious ethos, dressing up their biases with the veneer of science.
Spain also has no sympathy with the idea of distorting the fundamental principles, such as free movement of people, until they become unrecognisable, purely so as to give ammunition to Cameron again the xenophobic Ukip.
But it still constitutes a dramatic reduction on government money spent on the poor – distorting a budget that ordinarily rises and falls depending on the performance of the economy.
The government and its supporters say foreign media are distorting the situation in Egypt, which they argue is on the path to democracy.
Let's debate the rights or wrongs of this approach without distorting the economic facts.
For a long time, that was how America Online treated the cost of acquiring its subscribers.Another common way of distorting accounts is by "channel stuffing".
Mr Obama has held back from visible trade spats which might spook the market, instead pushing his team to find discreet ways to retaliate against such Chinese bad behaviour as the theft or forced transfer of Western technology, or market-distorting subsidies.
A decade ago, over 90% of Europe's farm subsidies were highly trade-distorting.
