“But no billionaire should be paying a lower tax rate than a schoolteacher or a firefighter.”
Joe Biden
President of the United States. State of the Union address. Claim dated 7 Feb 2023.
FactCheck.org rated thisNot the Whole Story
What FactCheck.org found
Biden's comparison relies on including wealthy families' gains on unsold stock as income.
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In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 7 February 2023. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 February 2023, 9 days later. Its rating was “Not the Whole Story”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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