Annie Lowrey on Why Government Bureaucracy Sucks So Much

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Annie Lowrey is a staff writer at The Atlantic who focuses on economic issues like welfare policy, income inequality, and what an ideal tax policy would look like. She is the author of the recent book The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time—and How to Fix It.

In this episode, I got a chance to speak with her about why it's so painful to file taxes in the US, why American bureaucracy is so cumbersome for so many people, and how Democrats and Republicans both contribute to the problem in their own ways.

Show Notes

The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time―and How to Fix It by Annie Lowrey

"The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero" by Patrick McKenzie, Bits About Money

Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson