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Latest Fact-Checks In Taxes

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Fight Right Inc.
stated on December 6, 2023 in a TV ad:
Nikki Haley “raised taxes.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • December 13, 2023
Alex Mooney
stated on November 2, 2023 in a post on X:
Jim Justice “broke his pledge, raised the gas tax.”
False
By Ayden Norcross • November 21, 2023
Melissa Agard
stated on July 27, 2023 in X, formerly Twitter:
Potato chips, KitKat bars and Viagra are not taxed in Wisconsin because they are considered “essential.”
True
By Sophia Voight • November 3, 2023
Americans for Prosperity
stated on July 17, 2023 in a Facebook ad:
“The Inflation Reduction Act led to higher taxes.”
Mostly False
By Anthony Starkey • October 19, 2023
Tricia Cotham
stated on September 25, 2023 in an interview on WBT-FM:
The North Carolina state budget includes “the largest cut in our personal income tax that we’ve ever seen.”
False
By Paul Specht • October 9, 2023
Nick LaLota
stated on March 29, 2023 in a press release:
“For every dollar in federal taxes my constituents pay, we get a mere 93 cents back.”
Mostly True
By Cameron Carr • June 19, 2023
MAGA Inc
stated on May 12, 2023 in a TV ad:
“In Congress Ron DeSantis pushed a 23% national sales tax.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • May 16, 2023
Robin Vos
stated on March 9, 2023 in Podcast:
“When a basketball player or football or baseball player from another team plays in Wisconsin, that one game’s salary, they pay Wisconsin income tax on it. … So, if for some reason we do not have the Brewers in Wisconsin all of those player salaries that generate dollars for the State of Wisconsin go away.”
True
By D.L. Davis • May 12, 2023
Ron Johnson
stated on April 24, 2023 in Public statement:
Says Social Security is a “legal Ponzi scheme.”
Mostly False
By Vanessa Swales • May 5, 2023
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 13, 2023 in a speech:
Florida has “the second lowest tax burden per capita in the United States.”
Mostly True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • April 19, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on February 15, 2023 in a speech in Lanham, Maryland:
The “average tax” for billionaires is “about 3%,” which is “a lower tax than a schoolteacher or a firefighter.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on February 7, 2023 in a post on Facebook:
“In the month since Republicans took the House majority,” they are trying to “impose a 30% tax on everything.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Tom Kertscher • February 10, 2023
Rick Scott
stated on February 7, 2023 in an ad:
President Joe Biden “cheated on his taxes and got away with it.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • February 10, 2023
Mike Palicz
stated on February 7, 2023 in a tweet:
The 87,000 new IRS agents who were supposed to “only target the rich” are now “coming after waitresses’ tips.”
Mostly False
By Loreben Tuquero • February 10, 2023
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on January 27, 2023 in an interview with reporters:
“The largest contributor to the debt ceiling, or to our deficit, has been the Trump tax cuts.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 1, 2023
Glenn Youngkin
stated on January 23, 2023 in a speech.:
Virginia tax receipts “in just the last four years alone have grown 50%.”
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • January 25, 2023
Eric Adams
stated on January 7, 2023 in a radio interview:
“Fifty-one percent of our taxes are paid by 2% of New Yorkers.”
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 24, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on January 6, 2023 in a video shared on Facebook:
“Americans who worked through the pandemic are being paid up to $26,000 by qualifying for the Employee Retention Credit.”
False
By Madison Czopek • January 17, 2023
Citizens for Sanity
stated on November 2, 2022 in an ad:
President Joe Biden and Democrats “send a fortune to Ukraine but nothing for our children.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 3, 2022
Senate Leadership Fund
stated on October 11, 2022 in a political ad:
Cheri Beasley “backs tax hikes — even on families making under $75,000.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • October 31, 2022
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