It's pretty econ 101, it's called deadweight loss: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microeconomics/consumer-producer-surplus/deadweight-loss

It's pretty econ 101, it's called deadweight loss: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microeconomics/consumer-producer-surplus/deadweight-loss-tutorial/a/lesson-overview-taxation-and-deadweight-loss https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microec... What I was more talking about is the negative effects of spurious enforcement, much like how more cops means more police brutality, especially for the weak. This plays out more in small business.