“Most people below $50,000 don’t pay any income tax. The top 1 percent in our country pay 40%.”
Rand Paul
U.S. Senator, R-Ky.. an interview on ABC's "The View". Claim dated 11 Oct 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
In short
Rand Paul (U.S. Senator, R-Ky.) made this claim around 11 October 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 October 2019, 6 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Rand Paul has 19 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 8 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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