“Under the Democrats’ Build Back Better bill, “the experts are telling us that 30% of middle class Americans will end up paying higher taxes” while giving “a tax break to two-thirds of the millionaires in America.”
What PolitiFact found
The impact would be small in dollar and percentage terms, and they would result from the murky, indirect impact of a corporate tax hike, not a direct tax visible on a return or paystub.
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In short
John Barrasso (U.S. Senator, R-Wyo.) made this claim around 14 November 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 November 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
John Barrasso has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- abcnews.go.comhttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-11-14-21-brian-deese-sen/story?id=81152029
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