Graham Plattner

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438 appearances 36 recordings 15 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 10 Jul

Graham Plattner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 36 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 19.

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The David Pakman Show · ICE agents in trouble as under the bus goes Bovino · 29 Jan 2026 podcast

Yeah, I mean, Elizabeth Warren has a very good wealth tax proposal, essentially around this exact problem. matched

Because that is true. matched

That's the case. matched

Now, I also think, and this is another kind of leg of the stool here, is funding enforcement mechanisms. matched

The IRS goes after poor people when we cut its funding. matched

The IRS goes after small businesses when we cut its funding. matched

Because it's expensive to battle corporate attorneys. matched

It's manpower intensive. matched

I have a very good friend of mine who was an IRS special agent. matched

And he always told me, he's like, every time our budget gets cut, matched

we essentially change our entire enforcement strategy because we do need to show wins. matched

We need to go after tax cheats. matched

We have to go after unclaimed taxes. matched

To go after large corporate structures and the ultra rich, we need a mountain of lawyers and personnel to do the forensic audits, to chase the money down. matched

That stuff costs man. matched

It's manpower and money. matched

And when you don't have that, instead, you're just going to go back. matched

You're going to go after a small business that did its deductions wrong. matched

Or because because, you know, you can get money and wins out of that. matched

So you're not going to get. matched

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