“Joe Biden is proposing that any family who tries to pass a business or a farm down to their son or daughter or grandson or granddaughter are going to pay a huge new tax.”
What PolitiFact found
The White House is proposing a series of new taxes that could hit large inheritances in a significant way. But Christie is wrong to frame these as hitting “any family” passing down a business within the family.
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In short
Chris Christie (Former New Jersey governor) made this claim around 2 May 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 May 2021, 4 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Chris Christie has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- abcnews.go.comhttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-21-jake-sullivan-sen-john-barrasso/story?…
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