Refunds not the same as tax burden
"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
Poll didn't ask about a 70% rate
"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
Cause and effect aren't as simple as this claim asserts
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
If by 'soda tax,' we mean 'capital project'
"In Springfield, Susana Mendoza voted to hit working families with a massive new soda tax."
— PolitiFact Illinois on Sunday, February 3rd, 2019
Looks and works like a tax hike
"There is no tax increase in the governor’s budget plan."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Tuesday, January 29th, 2019
How soaked are the rich?
"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
Not every city
"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
Only applies to lower income residents
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
Blown out of proportion
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
McCready wants reform, not repeal
Says "Dan McCready wants to repeal tax cuts that saves (sic) you $1,300" per year.
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Monday, October 29th, 2018
Progressive, but not the most
"We have the most progressive tax system in the country, right here in Vermont."
— PolitiFact Vermont on Monday, October 29th, 2018
Recession wasn't AG Cordray's fault
"During the Strickland-Cordray era, taxes were raised by $800 million and Ohio lost 400,000 jobs."
— PolitiFact Ohio on Monday, October 29th, 2018
Walker, not Evers, came up with the $1 figure
Says Tony Evers will "raise the gas tax by as much as a dollar a gallon."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
He turns a vote 'against' one thing into a vote 'for' another
Says Beto O'Rourke "voted in favor of a $10 a barrel tax on every barrel of oil produced in the state of Texas."
— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, October 19th, 2018
This argument's mostly show
"For decades, Madigan kept property taxes high and made a fortune helping cronies like Pritzker dodge them."
— PolitiFact Illinois on Sunday, October 7th, 2018
Overall population continues to grow
California "is hemorrhaging population."
— PolitiFact California on Friday, September 28th, 2018
They teamed up to overhaul two Chicago pension funds
Says "Mike Madigan and Kwame Raoul team up to raise property taxes."
— PolitiFact Illinois on Sunday, September 16th, 2018
A taxing examination
Says "Mimi Walters raised taxes on middle-class Californians."
— PolitiFact California on Friday, September 7th, 2018
Rauner's attack ad selectively quotes newspapers
Says Bruce Rauner is "misquoting newspapers to lie about J.B. Pritzker."
— PolitiFact Illinois on Sunday, September 2nd, 2018
Less than meets the eye
"U.S. government reports record tax haul after Trump tax cuts spur economic growth."
— PunditFact on Friday, August 17th, 2018