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I have not yet heard of a solution to bureaucracy. If you try to fight it, it grows bigger. Maybe the one where every citizen is given an Email Identity and everything is done remotely via that Email Address?

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Where you‘ve got benefits or subsidies, you always need bureaucratic control. In Britain, a gang of five people were caught and pleaded guilty to numerous charges involving creating false Universal Credit claims worth £53,901,959.82. Universal Credit was an attempt to simplify and streamline the benefits system. The bureaucracy surrounding farm subsidies makes the present and proposed benefit systems you describe sound positively straightforward!

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Speaking of the UK BBC archive ran a great show a out “claiming benefits in the mid 70s. And it was pretty. U h the same. Visits to a half dozen different offices each requiring their own forms stamps and signatures. Most eye opening was the lack of indoor toilets!!

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