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The Time Tax: How The Government Wastes Our TimeAnd How To Fix It
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A Powerful Investigation Into How And Why The Government Wastes Our Time With Administrative Burdens, How These Burdens Discriminate And Drive Inequality, And What We Can Do To Protect Our TimeAnd Make The Government Work For Useveryone Knows That Dealing With Government Bureaucracy Can Be A Nightmare. Doing Your Taxes Is Bad Enough, But For Those Applying For Financial Aid, Housing Assistance, Unemployment, Disability, Or Medicaid, ItS WorseAnd The Stakes Are Infinitely Higher. If Time Is Money, The Hoops We Must Jump Through To Access Government Services Or Comply With The Law Are Just One More Bill We As Citizens Are Forced To Pay.Journalist Annie Lowrey Has Termed This The Time Tax: The Paperwork, Aggravation, And Mental Effort Imposed On Citizens To Access Their Rights And Benefits. So How Did The WorldS Wealthiest Country End Up With Such A Convoluted, Punitive, And Inept System Of Public Administration? Lowrey Traces The Pathbreaking History Of Administrative Burdens In The United States From The Civil War To Today, Revealing How They Were Historically Built As A Tool Of Discrimination. She Examines The Effect Of Time Taxes On Civic Life In The Us, From How They Amplify Inequality And Entrench Poverty To How They Reduce Trust In The Government.Lowrey Not Only Diagnoses The Problem And Gives This Miserable Experience Of Interacting With Our Government A Name; She Also Shows That It DoesnT Have To Be This Way. Countries From Estonia To Vietnam Have Made It A Priority To Reduce Administrative Burdens For Their Citizens, And She Argues ThereS No Reason We CanT Do The Same. The Time Tax Will Enrage You, Enlighten You, And, Most Important, Provide A PointByPoint Guide For Reclaiming Our Precious Time.
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