Taxes: what they said and what the record shows
What right-wing public figures said and how they voted on taxes, set against the record. 11 entries: 1 vote, 10 claims.
- “And this week, millions of Americans received the largest tax refunds of their lives. The average is more than $4,000 per filer.”
- “we saved two million American farms from extinction by virtually ending the unfair estate tax. We've ended the estate tax, or as they call it, the death tax.”
- “That means every extra hour you work, your overtime pay is now 100-percent tax-free. You have no tax.”
- “We also made interest on car loans fully tax deductible so that when you go out and buy a car, if you have a, you know, mortgage or you get a loan on a car…”
- “We've taken in trillions of dollars in tariffs, and we want to keep it that way.”
- “We're making a fortune with tariffs. Two billion dollars a day.”
- “With me, they paid hundreds of— $600 billion or so, or more—more than that, even—of tariffs.”
- “Macron of France, good guy. He's a friend of mine, but he loves France, and he was going to put a tax on all American business, a very substantial tax, 25%, on…”
- “But those 87,000 people are allowed to carry guns.”
- “If it looks like to me, Chuck, we're adding one penny to the deficit, I am not going to be for it.”
- “We're the highest taxed nation in the world. Anywhere in the world. And of the industrialized nations, we're far and away the highest taxed nation.”