All Taxes statements that are Mostly False

"Why should you get a break for racehorses and not get a break for child care?"

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, June 19th, 2019

"There are parts of I-80 near Joliet that school buses are not allowed to cross because of the fragile nature of a bridge."

— PolitiFact Illinois on Sunday, June 16th, 2019

State Sen. Emmett Hanger "has voted for the three largest tax increases - proposed tax increases - in Virginia history."  

— PolitiFact Virginia on Tuesday, April 30th, 2019

"In almost every state with an income tax, wealthy people pay a higher tax rate than the middle class."

— PolitiFact Illinois on Sunday, April 21st, 2019

"Fifty-two counties have average taxes of above the SALT $10,000 cap."

— PolitiFact New York on Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

"HR 1 is going to take your hard-earned tax dollars and millions more and send them to (a political candidate’s) campaign so (they) can put ads on TV."

— PolitiFact North Carolina on Tuesday, March 26th, 2019

"Tax revenue went up, actually, $14 billion last year after the tax cut actually occurred. We had greater revenue."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, March 7th, 2019

Says taxing more services, taxing retirement income and increasing the flat-rate income tax would "fall disproportionately on the working poor and the middle class."

— PolitiFact Illinois on Sunday, March 3rd, 2019

"The average tax refund is down about $170 compared to last year. Let’s call the President’s tax cut what it is: a middle-class tax hike to line the pockets of already wealthy corporations and the 1%."

— PolitiFact California on Wednesday, February 13th, 2019

"Seventy percent of the American public agree with" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "on having the top marginal (tax) rate for the rich" at 70 percent, and "that's a Fox News Poll saying that."  

— PunditFact on Wednesday, February 6th, 2019

During the three times the top marginal tax rates were lowered in the 20th century, "revenues actually went up while the economy improved in America."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Tuesday, February 5th, 2019

"In Springfield, Susana Mendoza voted to hit working families with a massive new soda tax."

— PolitiFact Illinois on Sunday, February 3rd, 2019

"There is no tax increase in the governor’s budget plan."  

— PolitiFact Virginia on Tuesday, January 29th, 2019

"According to the Tax Foundation, the top 10 percent of earners already pay almost 80 percent of all taxes."

— PunditFact on Thursday, January 24th, 2019

"Every city that has a commuter tax — look at Detroit, Philadelphia — they are actually stagnating in terms of their economy. It’s been a job-killer."

— PolitiFact Illinois on Sunday, January 13th, 2019

Says Chicagoans "live in one of the most taxed cities and the most taxed county, unfortunately, in the country."

— PolitiFact Illinois on Sunday, December 2nd, 2018

Says California Republican Young Kim is "a tax cheat" who "illegally claimed a $7,000 annual homestead exemption on a house she wasn’t living in," had "multiple tax liens placed on her" as a result and "owes over $10,000 in unpaid federal income taxes."  

— PolitiFact California on Friday, November 2nd, 2018

Says "Dan McCready wants to repeal tax cuts that saves (sic) you $1,300" per year.

— PolitiFact North Carolina on Monday, October 29th, 2018

"We have the most progressive tax system in the country, right here in Vermont."

— PolitiFact Vermont on Monday, October 29th, 2018

"During the Strickland-Cordray era, taxes were raised by $800 million and Ohio lost 400,000 jobs."

— PolitiFact Ohio on Monday, October 29th, 2018