Want a Transcript of Your Old Tax Returns? A Blind Dude From the IRS Is Here To Help [VIDEO]

It's tax season, and you get a couple extras days to file your return this year: Instead of April 15th, the deadline is Monday, April 18th, because of 'Emancipation Day", a holiday about freeing the slaves that's being observed in D.C. on Friday the 15th.

But the IRS is here to help in other ways too. Just check out their latest PSA on getting a transcript for your files. It features 'Eric', an IRS employee who's very friendly, very helpful, and who happens to be very BLIND.  He also speaks with a LISP.

Call me cynical, but something tells me the Internal Revenue Service KNOWS how much everyone hates them and might be using this dude to generate sympathy: