Posted by
Defend America on Friday, July 31, 2009 6:30:27 PM
Americans Spent Nearly 10 Billion Hours on Government Forms Last Year
Posted July 31, 2009
- 9.9 billion: Number of hours Americans spent on government paperwork last year
- 2 billion: Increase in hours from 2004, a 25 percent increase
- 1 billion: Estimated number of hours in 1981
- 7.7 billion: Number of hours spent on IRS forms, or 80 percent of the total
- $460 billion: Estimated labor cost of the 9.9 billion hours of federal paperwork
http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2009/07/31/americans-spent-nearly-10-billion-hours-on-government-forms-last-year.html