Elizabeth Warren
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So I want to say to anybody who listens to this, if you think that's the right approach, go to ElizabethWarren.com, kick in 10 bucks, and we'll do some more of this to support our state parties.
so that we can be the party that really advances our agenda that not only is about the economics of the American family, helping families build some economic security, but also helping secure our democracy because we demonstrate that we can make government work, not for a handful of oil executives.
And not for people who want to throw anyone out of the country who doesn't look like them.
We can make this country work for working families.
But that's the job the Democrats have got to take on now.
Okay, so I'll try to do this fast, but look at something like the CFPB.
We built it on an abundance principle before abundance was cool.
And the idea was we scooped up all of these different regulations, put them all in one place, smoothed them out, made them work, and collected over a billion dollars that was returned directly to families that had been cheated.
That's efficiency at its best.
But you've got to ask yourself, when you can't seem to fix that, what's gone wrong?
Why is it that we can't do the same thing with filing your taxes?
Come on, in most parts of the world, you can go online, you can look at something the government has laid out there, and you can file your taxes if they're not very complicated.
But in America, even the most simple filing, often people got to spend 200, 300 bucks, right, in order to be able to file their taxes.
So I've been pushing for direct file, simple, efficient.
And what happens?
The tax industry, the people who make money off the inefficiency, keep the inefficiency in place and they fight for that inefficiency.
So when the IRS
Finally did.
A terrific site for direct files so people could file for free.
What happens?