Ben Wikler: “Wealthy tax cheats are going to walk away with $500 billion.”

“Yeah, they're coming for Medicaid, they're coming for Medicare. They're, they're, I mean they could mangle everything. I just read that they have so mangled the IRS that Wealthy tax cheats are going to walk away with $500 billion. that's the estimate, half a trillion dollars that is owed to the people of the United States in federal taxes that they're not going to collect.” (12:29–12:34)

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