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106: WaPo Economics Columnist Catherine Rampell

The Al Franken Podcast

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The Worst Willy Wonka Tour

There are 200 IRS agents who do our armed and they're the ones who are trying to collect money from drug people and from human traffickers. A little more than half goes to enforcement and then the rest goes to things like IT upgrades, customer service. If you have a little time to kill, you can look up this story that I wrote last summer where I visited an IRS facility in Texas with everybody's chaperoning you. It is like going through the weirdest Willy Wonka tour because you're just piles of paper everywhere.

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