I liked that because it's funny. But I think you're wrong.

OK, at one time this would be true more often than not. But that was a time when the government was made up of more regular folks looking to do the least possible work for the paycheck.

Now government has been captured and weaponized in the project to concentrate power and wealth.

The reason they're not doing the paperwork now isn't the inconvenience of it; it's the paper trail.