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This 1.8 T was calculated by the AAF a republican right wing group that once asserted that it is proven that in medicine market forces work. So take that absurd amount with a grain of salt.

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How about the OMB under Biden, which estimated "information collection" alone takes the government 10.3 billion hours in FY2022? At $50/hour, that's already $500B. If you factor in everything other than "information collection", as well as the cost of compliance from private companies, $1.8T doesn't seem implausible.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynecrews/2023/09/25/federal-p...

And that analysis is being relayed credulously by possibly the most influential libertarian think tank in the US, so perhaps a spoonful is warranted.

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