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David Schweikert: “Last year's taxpayer audit said only 31% of the phone calls…”

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

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Turns out the crazy thing, the chat, you know, the computer answering the phone at the IRS has a higher favorability rate than When a human's answered the phone, maybe we should stop being scared of adopting the technology. Because remember, Last year's taxpayer audit said only 31% of the phone calls to the IRS were getting answered. Yet the IRS union attacks you for saying maybe we could use technology. Oh, you can't do that. (24:28–24:36)

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Asserts that only 31% of IRS phone calls were answered according to a taxpayer audit.

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