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🗓️ 14 April 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Former Internal Revenue Service Commissioner, John Koskinen, joins Ralph to discuss the bad rap the IRS gets and the consequences of Congress cutting its budget. Plus, listener questions!
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0:00.0 | From the K-P-F-K studios in Southern California, |
0:03.6 | it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
0:05.6 | Stand up, stand up. |
0:07.8 | You've been sitting great to long. |
0:17.2 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan. Along with my co-host David. Welcome back David. Hope you're feeling better. |
0:21.0 | I'm feeling better. Looking forward to paying my taxes. |
0:24.8 | I am. |
0:25.6 | Really? |
0:26.3 | It's the most patriotic thing you can do. |
0:28.8 | Oh, stop sucking up to Ralph. |
0:31.1 | No, no, he's justating off Oliver Wendo Holmes, which he said taxes are the price |
0:37.0 | we pay for civilization, remember in the 1930s? |
0:40.9 | You're asking me if I remember. Yeah, you know, Oliver Wendell Holmes also said in my family, one generation of imbeciles is enough. |
0:48.7 | Now you always look at the dark side, don't you? |
0:53.6 | That voice you here is the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. |
0:55.8 | Hello, Ralph. |
0:56.9 | Hello, this is going to be a great program on the IRS |
1:00.5 | by the former head of the IRS. |
1:03.0 | Listen carefully, people. |
1:05.0 | That's right. |
1:06.0 | Tax Day is almost upon us. |
1:08.0 | And as we know, it's a time when Chestnut's wrote, |
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