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Biggest Tax Increase in History?
Critics of the health care law have claimed that it’s the biggest tax increase in history. But that could only be true in raw dollars. When adjusted for inflation — or better yet, as a percentage of gross domestic product — several other tax increases just since 1968 are larger. …
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Twisting Health Care Taxes
Republicans are twisting the facts on taxes in the Affordable Care Act, grossly overstating the impact on families or lower-income earners. In what has become a Republican talking point, several GOP lawmakers have wrongly claimed that a Congressional Budget Office report said that 75 percent of the federal health care …
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Tax Facts: Lowest Rates in 30 Years
Politicians talk about the burden of taxes incessantly. Now comes a rare chance to check the facts. And the fact is that federal tax rates had fallen to the lowest in 30 years when President Barack Obama took office — and fell again in his first year in office. This …
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Biggest Tax Increase in History?
Q: Is the new health care law “the biggest tax increase in history”? A: In raw dollars, perhaps. But several tax increases just since 1968 were larger as percentages of the economy, or in inflation-adjusted dollars.
Dueling Distortions in North Carolina
It didn’t take long for the governor’s race in North Carolina to turn ugly. Although it’s only June, Republican Pat McCrory and Democrat Walter Dalton both find themselves under attack from outside groups spending heavily on misleading TV ads: A Democratic group claims McCrory, a former mayor of Charlotte, “used …
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Tagged Beverly Perdue, North Carolina, Pat McCrory, taxes, Walter Dalton
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Romney’s Jobs Record Is Best (or Worst)
A campaign ad that praises Mitt Romney’s performance as governor of Massachusetts presents a slanted view of his record on jobs, unemployment and taxes. To every claim, there is a “yes, but” qualifier. The Romney ad claims that as governor, “Romney had the best jobs record in a decade.” Yes …
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A Bogus Tax Attack Against Obama
The latest multimillion-dollar attack ad from Crossroads GPS claims President Obama broke a promise to not increase taxes for families making less than $250,000 a year. That’s almost entirely false. The truth is that Obama repeatedly cut taxes for such families, first through a tax credit in effect for 2009 …
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Tagged Crossroads GPS, False advertising, health care, President Obama, taxes
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