“Inflation is not caused because you cut taxes.”
What PolitiFact found
Sometimes tax cuts won't increase inflation, such as in a recession. But in our current period of 40-year-high inflation, tax cuts would likely increase inflationary pressures.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rick Scott (U.S. Senator, R-Fla.) made this claim around 30 October 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 November 2022, 8 days later. Its rating was “It depends on the economy”.
Rick Scott has 28 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 15 of them false or fake, 11 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- transcripts.cnn.comhttps://transcripts.cnn.com/show/sotu/date/2022-10-30/segment/01
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