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bdrasin
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2012 Jul 12, 12:23am
bdrasin says
This is narrowly true, but most people think "the taxes I pay to the IRS each year on my 1040" when they hear "income tax", and by that standard its not true because those include medicare and social security tax.
It looks like you are correct yes. Politifact has a link to more details for each "claim." Here's the link for Cornyn's claim:
This whole thing seems to me to be verbal sleight-of-hand. Payroll tax is an income tax in the general sense of being "a tax levied on and based on income", even if its not FICA. So its a true statement that doesn't mean what most people will assume it means.
freak80
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2012 Jul 12, 12:33am
So its a true statement that doesn't mean what most people will assume it means.
Maybe it should have gone under Politifact's "mostly true" category rather than "true" category.
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I've been kind of harsh toward some of the "far right" trolls here on Patnet. To be fair, I've decided to list some of the right-wing claims categorized as "true" by Politifact.com.
-- Rick Santorum: "Over 40% of children in America are born out of wedlock"
-- Michelle Bachmann: "Our government right now...(is) spending 40% more than what we take in"
-- John Cornyn: "51%, that is, a majority of American households, paid no income tax in 2009. Zero. Zip. Nada."
-- George Will: "we lost more jobs in this great recession than the last four recessions combined."
-- Scott Walker: "most federal employees do not have collective bargaining for benefits, nor for pay."
-- George Will: if Wisconsin's governor cuts [pay and benefits] as much as he plans to do, "it would still leave (public sector workers) better off than their private sector counterparts."
-- Rand Paul: the federal government "can cut all of the non-military discretionary spending and still not balance the budget."
-- Barack Obama: the US has "one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world." (no, I don't know why Obama used this standard right-wing talking point)
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