Word: paperwork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Middlesex County first began documenting land transactions in the seventeenth century, all that local officials needed to complete the paperwork was a book, a quill and a scribe with no taste for glamour...
Electronic filers do not entirely escape the paper chase; the IRS still needs a signature, which so far cannot be transmitted electronically. The high-tech taxpayer must fill out and sign the brief form 8453, which declares that the person is filing electronically. This paperwork, along with the taxpayer's W2 forms, is mailed to the IRS by the transmitting firm...
...confuses everyone else. So there's a lot to be said for leaving things alone. That's certainly the case if the alternative is the President's broad capital-gains cut. A focused capital-gains cut would cost far less and accomplish as much or more, and without the paperwork. But first a little background...
According to Casey, this provision would have buried many Harvard researchers under a mound of paperwork. Ironically, scientists exploring safer alternatives to the targeted chemicals would have found themselves particularly susceptible to the onerous requirements...