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Marco Rubio
stated on October 18, 2022 in a campaign ad:
Val Demings “voted with Pelosi to raise taxes over $4,000 on Florida families.”
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • October 25, 2022
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
Joe Manchin
stated on August 28, 2022 in a tweet:
“WV families making less than $400K & small businesses will NOT be targeted by the IRS.”
Mostly True
By Amanda Boring • October 18, 2022
Ron Johnson
stated on September 26, 2022 in TV ad:
Says Mandela Barnes “supported a 20% increase in the gas tax.”
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • October 6, 2022
Instagram posts
stated on August 21, 2022 in an Instagram post:
“America now has a government that forbids border agents from using deadly force, but is training IRS agents to use SWAT-team tactics on law-abiding citizens.”
False
By Jeff Cercone • September 30, 2022
Raphael Warnock
stated on August 29, 2022 in a speech in Albany, Ga.:
The child tax credit passed under President Joe Biden “has helped 97% of the families with children who are living in poverty.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 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
Herschel Walker
stated on August 22, 2022 in a tweet:
Joe Biden and Raphael Warnock “are spending $1.5 billion on ‘urban forestry’ and raising taxes on those making under $200k to pay for it.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Tori Gantz • September 1, 2022
Charlie Kirk
stated on August 24, 2022 in a Tweet:
“Harvard is sitting on top of a $54 billion hedge fund they call an ‘endowment’ that they pay zero taxes on. Yale has $31 Billion. Stanford $29 Billion. Princeton $26 Billion.”
Half-True
By Madison Czopek • August 31, 2022
Joni Ernst
stated on August 24, 2022 in a newsletter:
“The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says with the supersized staff, the IRS audit rate ‘would rise for ALL taxpayers’ regardless of income, and would even result in audits of innocent Americans who have paid their taxes and don’t owe the IRS anything.”
Half-True
By Lyle Muller • August 31, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on August 25, 2022 in a post:
Student debt relief is taxable by the Internal Revenue Service.
False
By Jeff Cercone • August 30, 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
Ron Johnson
stated on August 7, 2022 in News release:
“Last year the IRS audited Americans earning less than $25,000 a year at five times the rate of other groups.”
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • August 25, 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
Instagram posts
stated on August 17, 2022 in Instagram post:
“Biden is adding more IRS agents to investigate your taxes than we have detectives investigating every crime in the country.”
False
By Michael Majchrowicz • August 23, 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
Instagram posts
stated on August 21, 2022 in an Instagram post:
“Congress just voted to exempt themselves from IRS auditing of their personal finances.”
False
By Sara Swann • August 23, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on August 16, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Photos show “an IRS agent training class.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • August 19, 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
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