More Perfect · WNYC Studios

The Sleeper Amendments with Post Animal

November 14, 2018·26 min·2 clips
Man-on-the-street guesses peg IRS audit rates at 60%, the actual number is half of one percent.
The argument begins with taxes.

As heard by us

A brisk, music-framed look at constitutional amendments that seem dull until politics starts leaning on them.

More Perfect treats the 16th and 22nd Amendments as sleeper provisions: easy to file as procedural, harder to dismiss once the politics around them comes into view.

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Why you'd press play

A constitutional deep cut with songs, tax talk, and a hard pivot from the 16th Amendment to the 22nd.

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