“Teachers and nurses and firefighters are paying a higher tax rate than billionaires and the biggest corporations.”
What PolitiFact found
Most firefighters, teachers and nurses earn between $50,000 and $100,000, and 91% of people in that range pay less than 15% in taxes. Most billionaires and corporations pay a higher rate than that.
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In short
Kamala Harris (Vice President) made this claim around 7 October 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 October 2024, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Kamala Harris has 63 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 13 of them false or fake, 40 misleading or mixed and 7 true.
Where the claim appeared
- cbsnews.comhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-2024-election-interview-60-minutes-transcript/
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