The truth may set you free, but not if you're a Republican and the subject is taxes. After all, 95% of American families as promised received a tax cut from the Obama stimulus package. And while three-quarters of Americans support President Obama's proposal to roll back the Bush tax cuts for those earning over $250,000 to their Clinton-era levels, it turns out that affluent voters, too, chose Barack Obama over John McCain. Making matters worse, a Gallup poll Monday revealed that Americans' "views of income taxes among most positive since 1956."
So as their furious followers head off to their April 15th orgy of tea-bagging, the leadership of the GOP and its amen corner in the right-wing media have instead turned to tall tales on taxes.
Here, then, are 10 Republican Tax Day lies:
- President Obama will raise taxes on small businesses.
- The estate tax devastates small businesses and family farms.
- 40% of Americans pay no taxes.
- Tax cuts always increase revenue.
- The GOP is the party of fiscal discipline.
- Ronald Reagan was the greatest tax cutter of all time.
- FDR caused the Great Depression, or at least made it worse.
- Obama's cap-and-trade plan will cost each American family $3,100 a year.
- Obama's tax proposals will undermine charitable giving.
- The rich pay too much in taxes already.
For the details behind each of the GOP's Tax Day deceits, continue reading.
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