Red tape and paperwork requirements attributed to federal regulations — mostly in filing tax documents — cost America over 10 billion hours a year, or enough to consume 14,983 human lifetimes.
According to a just-released accounting of the paperwork burden under Biden, handling federal red tape consumed 10.5 billion hours.
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But that was in 2023, the last year in the Office of Management and Budget’s report, belatedly delivered. It is actually 12.3 billion hours, according to a more up-to-date OMB time calculator.
“For periodic real-time assessments, the OMB maintains an online landing page for ‘Government-Wide Totals for Active Information Collections.’ It appears as if the time tax tackling isn’t going too well, since as of
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