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>> benjamin: the irs struggling with over 35 million unprocessed tax returns at the end of their 2021 filing season in may. according to a watchdog group the national taxpayer advocate, that is four times a backlog they had in 2019. the watchdog reporting this was the most challenging season the irs and taxpayers have ever experienced. what a backlog. 35 million is incredible. maybe they should start by slashing the tax code itself 70,000 pages. >> sandra: interesting commentary from benjamin ha...

That, do they have to provide this alternative now? >> well, i mean, i think they propose a series of cuts but i think to argue that by putting back in over $700 billion into medicare that thats somehow advances the date of insolvency of medicare is not true. >> jackie, an interview in "fortune" magazine where romney did get some specifics on some things we hadnt heard before on places he would cut. still not talking about the tax code itself, but he talks about ending subsidies for amtrak, pbs,...

Dealt with the montana freemen and other groups. there have always been tax protest groups out there who have felt that either the tax code itself, just the act of taxation, was unjust, or the tax code was written to -- as mr. stack said in his manifesto, to benefit the very rich and to leave you and i and everybody else kind of left on the wayside. i think the bigger issue for the government right now, again, is, you know, does he represent an ongoing movement, and as stack tends to suggest, bu...