Elizabeth Warren (8:57)

Hi, I'm Danny Werfeld. I'm the IRS commissioner. Now, the entire IRS team is really excited because for the first time ever, 19 million taxpayers across 12 states can file their taxes online for free, direct with the IRS through our new IRS Direct File program. Direct File is available in English. It's available in Spanish. It's free. It's also simple, accurate, and secure. The Direct File program will walk you through filing your return step by step, making sure that you get the credits, the deductions, and the refunds that you're entitled to. Now, if you need to take a break, you can securely sign back on to Direct File and finish your taxes anytime before the April deadline. And there's more. We have customer service reps standing by to help on text. So we have a live text feature. So if you're on Direct File and you have any questions as you're walking through your taxes, just text a live assister right there and we'll have give you real time help with the new Direct File tool. So to learn more, to see if you're eligible, be a part of our pilot in the first year, go to irs.gov you'll see the link to Direct File. Or you can search Direct File on any search engine. And let me close by thanking all taxpayers for doing their civic duty and filing your taxes each year.

Ryan Reynolds (10:26)

And that's what MAGA Republicans attack. By the way, IRS Commissioner Wurfel's term expires in about three years, 2027. But Donald Trump is going to try to fire him. Wurfle says I'm not leaving. Trump's going to try to fire him and bring in MAGA Republican Congress member Billy Long.

Billy Long (10:46)

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Ryan Reynolds (12:39)

Let's take a look at Billy Long's Twitter or X a description of himself. It says he's a US Congress member from 2011 to 2023. He's a certified tax business advisor. DM me to save 40% on your taxes. Oh, wait a minute. Is Billy Long someone who runs a company that helps people prepare their taxes who is actually hurt by a free tax filing system? Maybe that's the conflict of interest right there. Maybe that's the conflict of interest. By the way, this is a video when Billy Long went into Congress. This is his whole shtick. One of the things that Billy Long did, in addition to you can DM him, apparently he believes he'll save you 40% on your taxes if you DM them. How embarrassing. That's the guy they put as the guy advertising services like that on Twitter or X. How you freaking humiliating. Here he is in 2011. His shtick is he was an auctioneer. He ran an auction house. And so we'd always be like $1, $2, $3, $4, 5. $5. This is him right here. Billy Long in 2011 doing that with the national debt. Play this clip.

Joe Biden (13:50)

We are one of the few people that can actually keep up with the national debt. I'm going to trillion now 3. You buy them. 3 trillion, now 4. $4 trillion. 5. 5 trillion. $6,608 trillion. 11 trillionaire. 12 12. 2013, you're out of here. 13 trillion. 14. 14 trillion, now 15. I have sold at 14 trillion. Thankfully, Mr. Speaker, we also could say those numbers backwards so we get the spending under control here. I'll be back.

Ryan Reynolds (14:21)

Okay, Billy Long and okay, all of you MAGA debt talks. It's just so fascinating that you talk about things like that when it benefits you. But when Donald Trump adds $8 trillion to our national debt, more than anybody before, a third of all of our debt right now in our country comes from Donald Trump tax cuts he couldn't pay for recklessly printing money. The PPP program where, by the way, they forgave the loans to their rich friends. Those loans were forgiven. Not student debt loans, but PPP loans to all of the members, Republican members of Congress who took out millions of dollars and all of Trump's friends and cronies who got millions in ppp. That debt, of course that could be forgiven. You're rich, you get your debt forgiven. When it comes to regular people, you don't get your debt forgiven. Just be clear what's happening here. I want you to direct your anger at the right places, not the wrong places, because they're going to distract you with their culture wars. Blame the trans people, blame the migrants, blame the communists and the Marxist deep state cabal Soros. Wow. No, be clear where this is coming from. Trump added over $8 trillion in debt. I don't hear him going $5 Trillion. I wouldn't be a great auctioneer. Let's be clear. But by the way, based on Trump's new policies, economists and the Congressional Budget Office estimated on the high end, Trump will add another $15 trillion in debt. And the medium Trump will do 7 trillion. On the low end, Trump will add $1.65 trillion to our national debt. Why do I think that he'll add more than the high predict, the high projection or prediction, I think Trump will probably add about. What's your guess? $20 trillion in debt. $25 trillion in debt. Do you think you'll hear a peep from magazines? You think they'll be sending letters about the threats and attacks and all of that? By the way, just take a chart. Take a look at this chart here where Trump Added more debt than anybody before. Let me just leave this here with you. This is President Biden speaking February 5, 2022 about what his vision of a fair tax code is. And to be clear, this is why all of the corporate media, which is owned by billionaires, attacked Biden. Because Biden was saying, look, I want a tax plan that taxes the rich fairly, that they get taxed fairly, and that everybody else is also taxed fairly. But billionaires can't escape their taxes. Listen to this. Play this clip.

Midas Touch Host (17:02)

We're still going to work on gas prices. We're still going to work on the food prices. But in the meantime, we can deliver that piece of. We can deliver that peace of mind to the American people and give them a little breathing room. And by the way, the proposals that I have out there, nobody earning less than $400,000 a year would pay a single additional penny in taxes. Not a single penny. And a lot of companies I've spoken to are willing to pay a little more in their corporate taxes and their personal taxes to see that happen. You've heard me say it a hundred Times. You got 55 companies of the Fortune 500 companies that paid zero tax the last couple of years and they made over $400 billion. Look, we can do this without increasing the deficit. Actually, we reduced the deficit over 300 billion. And 17 Nobel laureates in economics came to me several months ago to say that this plan would not only not raise inflation, it would ease long term inflationary pressures.

Ryan Reynolds (18:06)

Well, there you have it folks. Let me know what you think. I thought it was important there that I read you the letter, not just describe it because I want you to hear the language that these magas are using. Thanks for watching. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Appreciate you. Love this video. Make sure you stay up to date on the latest breaking news and all things Midas by signing up to the Midas Touch newsletter@midas touch.com newsletter.

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