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Citizens Against Government Waste
stated on August 31, 2022 in a Facebook ad:
“More than half of the $739 billion tax increase (in the Inflation Reduction Act) will go to wasteful Green New Deal programs like tree equity, ‘clean’ garbage trucks, and studying cow farts.”
Mostly False
By Jessica Riley, Sierra Worden • October 25, 2022
Charlie Crist
stated on August 25, 2022 in a tweet:
Gov. Ron DeSantis raised “taxes on the middle class by more than $1.5 billion while giving away $624 million to big corporations.”
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • September 2, 2022
Deidre DeJear
stated on August 13, 2022 in remarks at the Iowa State Fair:
“$1.5 billion of your taxpayer money is sitting in an account” that can be used for other purposes.
Mostly False
By Lyle Muller • August 29, 2022
Ben Cline
stated on August 12, 2022 in a statement.:
A new Democratic law “will make the IRS workforce larger than the Pentagon, FBI, State Department, and Customs and Border Patrol, combined.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Sara Swann, Warren Fiske • August 24, 2022
Tom Cotton
stated on August 3, 2022 in an ad:
The Inflation Reduction Act “doubles the size of the IRS, raises your taxes and spends billions on a green energy slush fund.”
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • August 23, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on August 16, 2022 in a Facebook post:
“The IRS is about to double in size, with 87,000 new armed agents and an additional $80 billion in order to primarily enhance IRS enforcement and operations.”
Mostly False
By Jeff Cercone • August 18, 2022
Rick Scott
stated on August 16, 2022 in a press release:
The IRS is adding 87,000 new agents, making the IRS “larger than (the) Pentagon, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Customs and Border Protection and the State Department combined.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Sara Swann • August 17, 2022
Bob Good
stated on August 10, 2022 in a tweet.:
“Democrats are voting to add an army of 87,000 IRS agents who will target middle class taxpayers and conduct at least 1 million more audits each year. ”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg, Warren Fiske • August 17, 2022
Kevin McCarthy
stated on August 9, 2022 in a tweet:
“Democrats’ new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you — with 710,000 new audits for Americans who earn less than $75k.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • August 11, 2022
Rebecca Kleefisch
stated on July 6, 2022 in TV ad:
“Tim Michels pushed for years to raise (Wisconsin’s) gas tax.”
Mostly False
By Madeline Heim • August 5, 2022
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on May 2, 2022 in News release:
Republican politicians are pushing a plan “that could raise taxes on almost one in three Wisconsinites and sunset Social Security and Medicare in five years.”
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • June 15, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on April 9, 2022 in a photo on Facebook:
“If you earn $100 and pay $33 income tax you’re left with $67. You then buy $67 worth of fuel and in doing so pay a 48% fuel tax (fuel tax = $32.16 + $6.70 GST). This means that the government just got $71.86 tax from your hard earned $100.”
Mostly False
By Sara Swann • May 6, 2022
Rebecca Kleefisch
stated on March 28, 2022 in TV ad:
“As your Lieutenant Governor…I cut your taxes.”
Mostly False
By Laura Schulte • April 13, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on March 30, 2022 in a Facebook post:
“Democrat’s New Plan: Tax billionaires to lower the deficit by $1 TRILLION and fund clean energy independence. Republican’s New Plan: Raise taxes on households earning less than $50,000 by an ADDITIONAL $4,500 after CUTTING taxes for the rich.”
Mostly False
By Sara Swann • April 4, 2022
Bill O'Reilly
stated on March 15, 2022 in a video on his website:
“As soon as Biden took office, he eliminated all subsidies for fossil fuels.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on February 20, 2022 in a Facebook post:
The IRS is taking money away from people who received unemployment benefits.
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 3, 2022
Joe Manchin
stated on December 20, 2021 in a radio interview:
The expanded child tax credit in the Build Back Better Act has “no means testing,” so people making $200,000 and $400,000 would get “the same as someone making” $70,000.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 20, 2021
Chris Jacobs
stated on November 19, 2021 in a radio interview:
“This one here has subsidies for people making as much as $800,000 to be able to buy a Tesla.”
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 26, 2021
Candace Owens
stated on September 9, 2021 in a tweet:
“The Biden administration is attempting to empower the IRS to monitor every single withdrawal, deposit, and transaction you make from your personal banking accounts, PayPal, Venmo, etc.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • October 11, 2021
Common Sense Leadership Fund
stated on September 17, 2021 in an attack ad:
Democrats “want to tax your retirement funds to pay for their new trillion dollar power grab.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 29, 2021
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