Annie Lowrey's new book, The Time Tax, reframes bureaucratic red tape not as accidental inefficiency but as a systemic burden deliberately imposed on the most vulnerable—poor, sick, and disabled Americans—through convoluted paperwork, waiting times, and administrative hurdles that funct
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