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Annie Lowrey on the Time Tax, Fraud, and Rationing by Paperwork
16 Sept 2026 5 published claims 1 attributable person
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“You want to tax people, tax in the broad sense of the term, living in rural areas, if only because it’s much harder to have government help them, right?”
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“It’s not fair. It shouldn’t be that if you are going to get your knee repaired, it’s because you have Medicare and are good at paperwork.”
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“The single worst program in my mind is TANF, which is cash welfare and a lot of other things.”
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“I think in a high inequality country such as ours, where you still have a lot of people who don’t have smartphones and don’t have computers, that’s why I would be very concerned about the postal service going away.”
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“The problem is, even going into the pandemic, every single recession that we have, we have this conversation about how stupid it is that we have these ancient infrastructures, literally, programs running on COBOL, and that states don’t have the right incentive to upgrade service delivery and their digital systems.”
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