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My excellent Conversation with Annie Lowrey

Annie Lowrey's new book, The Time Tax, argues that the most regressive levy in American life is the hours each of us must spend on hold, in waiting rooms, and filling out forms a competent state would have pre-filled — roughly fifty a year […]

My excellent Conversation with Annie Lowrey

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