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David Schweikert: “IRS has already hired like 6,000 more people to answer the…”

Featuring: David Schweikert, Republican | U.S. House, Arizona, District 1

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Published | Video Starts at 38:12

It'll even email or text you the form you need, maybe even send you the video so you know how to do it. You could crash the cost of government by adopting technology. IRS has already hired like 6,000 more people to answer the phone. What's the pension cost on that? I'm not being mean. I just, at some point I got to figure out how to finance these things when technology would have been faster, better, more accurate. (38:12–38:17)

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Claims the IRS has hired approximately 6,000 additional staff for phone support.

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