“The “average federal income tax” paid by the richest Americans is “8%. … If you’re a cop, a teacher, a firefighter, union worker, you probably pay two to three times that.”
What PolitiFact found
The 8% figure is a lowball estimate that uses a hypothetical calculation. And Biden’s statement ignores that most of the middle-income households he’s referring to pay tax rates of between zero and 15%.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 6 July 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 July 2022, 7 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/07/06/remarks-by-president…
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