In anticipation of Tax Day this Wednesday, last night’s Last Week Tonight took a closer look at the the one government agency everyone loves to hate: the IRS. It’s been an uphill battle for IRS employees (or as John Oliver calls them, “the physical equivalent of Ambien”) for the last several years between dramatic budget cuts and losing over 13,000 employees since 2010, and Oliver thinks it’s time to give them a break: “We don’t need to love the IRS or even like them, but after decades of us calling them Nazis and sending them mustard, I think they may deserve at least a few minutes of at least grudging acknowledgement of the unpleasant but necessary function they serve.” Oliver isn’t the best at sincere emotions, to he brought in Grammy winner Michael Bolton to sing a beautiful song of “reluctant support for their appropriate funding.”
John Oliver and Michael Bolton Stick Up for the IRS Through the Power of Song
