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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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01 / recommendation

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?

“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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Tyler Cowen
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04 / belief

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.

“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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05 / observation

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.

“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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