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The United States provides benefits through a perplexing system with arcane standards, @annielowrey.bsky.social argues: “It charges a fee for access to the safety net, payable in aggravation and frustration and effort and hours. I call it the time tax.”
The Time Tax
This is what happens when you provide benefits the way the United States does: by discretion, with skepticism, through a perplexing variety of programs with a surfeit of fussy rules.
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August 28, 2026 at 3:15 PM
The United States provides benefits through a perplexing system with arcane standards, @annielowrey.bsky.social argues: “It charges a fee for access to the safety net, payable in aggravation and frustration and effort and hours. I call it the time tax.”
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As he loses power and popularity — and faces mounting resistance abroad and at home — Trump is enlarging his police state.
No one is safe. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/you-or-someone-you-love-could-be
No one is safe. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/you-or-someone-you-love-could-be
August 28, 2026 at 3:16 PM
As he loses power and popularity — and faces mounting resistance abroad and at home — Trump is enlarging his police state.
No one is safe. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/you-or-someone-you-love-could-be
No one is safe. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/you-or-someone-you-love-could-be
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Everyone in America supports filing their taxes directly with the IRS for free—everyone but Trump & executives at giant tax prep companies like Intuit-TurboTax, who teamed up to cancel Direct File.
(What a coincidence: Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.)
(What a coincidence: Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.)
April 15, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Everyone in America supports filing their taxes directly with the IRS for free—everyone but Trump & executives at giant tax prep companies like Intuit-TurboTax, who teamed up to cancel Direct File.
(What a coincidence: Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.)
(What a coincidence: Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.)
Three Yale professors: “We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
Opinion | We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.
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June 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Three Yale professors: “We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
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