The Politics Behind Your Taxes

Civics 101

NHPR

Education, History, Supreme Court, American History, Elections, Democracy, Society & Culture, Government, Civics, Politics, Social Studies

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

How politicians decide who pays taxes, and how much they pay.

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0:00.0	I feel like I've had the income tax song stuck in my head for a solid week.
0:04.2	What's that song? What is that?
0:05.2	You don't know the income tax song.
0:06.7	No, am I going to hear it?
0:07.9	I'm paid my income tax today.
0:10.6	I paid my income tax today.
0:16.9	I'm only one of millions more Whose income never attacked before
0:21.7	A tax I'm very glad to pay
0:25.4	Is there just propaganda?
0:26.4	Yes, it's a 1942 propaganda song
0:29.4	You telling me you don't have this in your like Spotify playlist
0:31.5	Because I do
0:33.3	Rockefeller helped to build them
0:35.8	So did I
0:36.8	I paid my income tax today
0:39.7	I paid my income tax today
0:42.0	This is the first time
0:45.0	I think it's just the two of us
0:46.0	I know, hello
0:47.0	Hello
0:47.7	It's a whole new environment in here
0:49.9	Yeah
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