Hello and welcome to Maine Justice. It is Tuesday morning, April 15th.

Tax day. It is tax day. Do people still have to pay their taxes, given what's happening?

I don't think so, because we don't have government anymore.

So what do we have been paying for?

It's a trust system, Mary.

Sorry.

So there's so much to talk about because there's things that fall into the bucket of the illegal,

and that's the bucket of just like policy decisions that are, what's the word, dumb.

Dumb.

But, you know, the IRS, it may sound good to say you're going to shrink it and eradicate it.

But like, we actually make money off of that.

Anyway.

Okay.

So, as you could tell, we're already triggered.

That's right.

And we're not even, we don't even have taxes on our agenda day. We have all kinds of other stuff. So in case you don't know, I am Andrew Weissman and that other

person is Mary McCord. Hi, Mary. I didn't even realize we hadn't said that yet. Okay. Yeah,

it's going to be one of those days. So before we dig in, let me remind people that this podcast and also two other sister

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