This Is Why People Hate the Government
Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: This Is Why People Hate the Government
Pub date: 2026-08-25
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In 2024, Americans spent an average of six full workdays a year filling out government forms, according to the government’s own estimates. That’s a total of 12 billion hours, or $430 billion of uncompensated labor a year.
It’s easy to read something like this and say: “Oh, well, government is inefficient. That’s the price we pay for nice things.” But no, it’s not…
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