Episode 1450 • • 1:57:53 - 2:04:41
1450: New Collar Worker
IRS Destroys 30 Million Tax Returns, Backlog Crisis
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reportedly destroyed 30 million paper tax returns due to an inability to process a massive backlog. Critics suggest this move may disproportionately benefit wealthy donors whose complex filings were among the destroyed documents. The segment recalls the "dude named Ben" IT scandal from the Obama era as a precedent for IRS administrative failures.