The Great American Tax Revolt
Today, Explained
Vox
4.3 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey, so we're not paying taxes this year, right? |
| 0:03.0 | Until the Pentagon passes one damn audit, we shouldn't pay any more taxes. |
| 0:11.0 | People don't want to pay taxes anymore because they don't trust the way the government is spending and tracking our money. |
| 0:17.0 | Americans are fed up with paying taxes, and I know, I know, but hear me out. Americans are |
| 0:22.0 | extra fed up with paying taxes lately, according to some gallop polling and some posting. But are we |
| 0:28.4 | being short-sighted? I think that it's important to have a government. I think that humans |
| 0:33.5 | tried anarchy for quite a long time, and it didn't work so well. |
| 0:39.9 | A lot of people got hit over the head with rocks. |
| 0:43.0 | We didn't have a whole lot of economic development. |
| 0:48.6 | Almost everyone agrees that the United States should have a military to protect it from foreign invasion, that we should have law enforcement, firefighting, schools, etc. |
| 0:54.2 | Anti-taxers, and where this could all be heading, firefighting, schools, etc. Anti-taxers and where this could all be heading. |
| 0:56.9 | Coming up on Today Explained. |
| 0:59.6 | Support for Today Explain comes from Atio, the AI CRM for modern teams. |
| 1:04.7 | Atio connects to your email, calendar, calls, product data, billing data, and more. |
| 1:09.4 | So your CRM is always complete, always enriched, |
| 1:12.7 | and always in sync. Bye, bye, bye. If you want a CRM built for how you want to work, you can check |
| 1:20.3 | out ATEO. You can go to atio.com slash today explained and you get 15% off your first year. |
| 1:26.1 | That's ATTIO.com slash Today Explained. |
| 1:30.3 | Support for her today Explained comes from CNN. |
| 1:32.4 | Cool. |
| 1:33.0 | Cable News Network. |
| 1:33.8 | What's up? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Vox, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Vox and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

