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talk when they’re there, but when they
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retire, they tell me how I had a manager
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tell me that to fire someone at the IRS,
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she had to take halfime off, bring in a
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manager to do half her job because she
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spent half her time for weeks trying to
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fire somebody.
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Wow.
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And for some pretty blatant stuff.
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Okay.
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Um so it’s and you’ve read in the papers
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some of the abuse that’s going on. It’s
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a lot more commonplace than you think.
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these, for example, they’re showing up
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when somebody gets on TV
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uh with policies they don’t like and
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then an agent coincidentally shows up at
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their house that day.
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Yeah.
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Um the way to deal with that is, thank
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God for the tax court. This is something
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unique about the IRS. I wish we had it
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for every agency. The US tax court is an
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independent court.
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The EPA court is not an independent
0:45
court. It’s not even a real court. It’s
0:47
a kangaroo court run by the EPA and by
0:49
their employees. And guess which way
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they rule?
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Yeah.
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You know, same thing with Department of
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Labor. Same way with a bunch of other
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agencies. The tax court is completely
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independent, filled with professionals,
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professionals who brookke no nonsense
1:01
from anyone. Not the IRS attorneys, not
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the taxpayers attorneys. And that’s our
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ultimate check because one thing I like
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about the tax court, they follow the
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Scalia version of if you’re into
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constitutional law,
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they believe in reading the law and
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applying it as it’s written, even if it
1:20
makes no sense. And their response is,
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“If it makes no sense, go talk to your
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congressman.” Because in a republic, the
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legislature makes the laws, which by the
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way, in our country, the legislature
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does not make most of the laws anymore.
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I’d say they make about 10% of the law.
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The agencies make about 90% of the law.
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The courts make some percentage. Um,
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Congress makes actually very little law.
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But the tax court has an integrity of
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it’s not our job to pass laws we like
1:48
through the court system. Mhm.
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It’s our job to simply interpret the law
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and enforce it. And they do it and
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they’re pretty honest and they are a
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massive check on the IRS which is
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desperately needed given some of the
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things that have been going on over
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there.