“The Inflation Reduction Act "doubles the size of the IRS, raises your taxes and spends billions on a green energy slush fund.”
What PolitiFact found
The law would allow the IRS to hire up to 87,000 employees, but the agency expects to lose 50,000 employees. The law directly levies tax hikes only on very large corporations and high-earning money managers.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tom Cotton (U.S. senator, R-Ark.) made this claim around 3 August 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 August 2022, 20 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Tom Cotton has 13 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 8 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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