A competitive equilibrium fails to be a Pareto Optimum with a distorting tax because
A) the consumer's budget constraint has an additional kink.
B) the firm is no longer maximizing profits.
C) the government wastes its revenue.
D) the consumer faces a different effective wage than the firm.
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