TDS Time Machine | Tax Day

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🗓️ 12 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Join The Daily Show in celebrating America's favorite day of the year: Tax Day! Jon Stewart reports on the tax anger origins of the Tea Party. Resident Expert John Hodgman breaks down the benefits of tax cuts for the rich. Lewis Black reacts to a tax rebate for Americans. Ed Helms explores the benefits of offshoring to the Cayman Islands for tax purposes. Michael Kosta explains re-investing your tax breaks into yachts and Trevor Noah discusses billionaires' tax dodges. Finally, Ronny Chieng explains to Americans why their taxes are weird. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:08.1	Happy April 15th. It's Tax Day.
0:15.3	Or as Wesley Snipes calls it,
0:17.6	huh? What?
0:20.0	What was I supposed to? Oh. Oh, I have to make a call. Of course,
0:26.8	it's a mad rush. Everybody's scrambling to get the returns done by the deadline. It is a mess.
0:31.3	I have a solution. Ladies and gentlemen, everybody is always scrambling at the last minute on April 15th to get their taxes done.
0:40.7	So let's make tax day the 16th.
0:46.6	That way everybody can just relax.
0:49.2	Problem solved, unless I have fundamentally misunderstood human nature.
0:52.6	And I don't think I have.
0:54.9	But this year, Tax Day has some other kind of big surprises in store.
0:59.6	Tax Tea Party Day today.
1:01.6	So-called tea parties or tea parties.
1:03.5	Tea parties.
1:04.6	Tea parties.
1:04.8	Hundreds of tea parties.
1:06.4	Did you hear that, Mr. Boss, all of you?
1:12.6	A tea party, I hope we're invited.
1:15.3	I'll bring my signature cucumber sandwiches.
1:19.9	The secret is I use real cucumbers.
1:31.6	It is that kind of tea party, right?
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