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Mark Pocan: “Every dollar that's invested in the IRS, Internal Revenue…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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With Liberty and Justice for Some – Episode 2 Fixing the Tax Code with Erica Payne

Published | Video Starts at 37:26

The only way to have them have less money is to tax the ever living out of them. All right, let me ask you another issue. Help me break this myth. You know, Every dollar that's invested in the IRS, Internal Revenue Service, supposedly between 5 and $9 gets brought in from tax cheats, mostly wealthy folks trying to get away without paying their fair share. One of the problems is, you know, we could hear from all the Republicans in Congress that they want to defund the irs, that they're attacking the average person. (37:26–37:40)

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Asserts that investing in the IRS yields $5-$9 from tax cheats for every dollar invested.

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