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Andy Meek
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There's an old joke that goes something like this. What are the nine scariest words in the English language? Answer: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
The implication is pretty straightforward. The point is that the sprawling federal bureaucracy and its army of representatives can easily make something harder, more complicated than it needs to be, or even make a situation worse when it or they insert themselves into a problem. Even when extending what look like gifts to the general public. Here's a good example of what we're talking about, which is also exceedingly relevant to the current moment: The wave of new stimulus checks that are about to start arriving next month, in the form of the prepaid federal child tax credit payments that millions of families are poised to start receiving.
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