More than 90,000 governments across America are stealing your time with their absurd forms and rules — even Estonia works better
In 2001, writer Jeff Miller walked into a Massachusetts DMV to transfer his driver’s license and walked out as a convicted felon. Miller had never been arrested.
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In 2001, writer Jeff Miller walked into a Massachusetts DMV to transfer his driver’s license and walked out as a convicted felon. Miller had never been arrested. But as journalist Annie Lowrey explains in her new book, “The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time — and How to Fix It” (Ecco, out Aug. 25), another Jeff Miller had been born on the same day, in the same state, and later committed crimes “in the penumbra of attempted murder.” To prove he was the non-murderous Jeff Miller, he had to gather his original passport and birth certificate, replace a Social Security card he could no longer find, and get New Jersey to issue a letter confirming that, as Lowrey puts it, “Jeff Miller was not Jeff Miller.” The letter worked, until it didn’t.
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- In 2001, writer Jeff Miller walked into a Massachusetts DMV to transfer his driver’s license and walked out as a convicted felon. Miller had never been arrested.
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More than 90,000 governments across America are stealing your time with their absurd forms and rules — even Estonia works better
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