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Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2023-03-23): The biggest single source of tax hikes on high income households is Biden’s proposal to raise the top rate on capital gains from 20 percent to 39.6 percent. Other important tax increases for high-income households: Biden’s proposed increase in the top rate for wages and salary income to 39.6 percent, and his proposed expansion and rate hike for the Net Investment Income Tax. Biden’s minimum tax on individuals with more than $100 million in wealth affects only about 20,000 households but would be substantial tax increase for those who get hit. [...] The president is nothing if not consistent. As Biden has made clear since his 2020 campaign, he wants to raise taxes substantially on high-income households and corporations and provide modest tax cuts to low- and moderate-income households. And, like it or not, that’s what his budget does.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2021-03-18): Now that he’s signed the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion Covid relief package, President Joe Biden is turning to the next items on his legislative agenda – and laying the groundwork for raising taxes on wealthier Americans to pay for them. [...] Those earning more than $1 million annually would have to pay higher taxes on capital gains, which typically make up the largest share of income for the wealthy, under Biden’s campaign proposal. [...] These business tax hikes make up the largest component of Biden’s campaign proposal, raising about $1.3 trillion in revenues over a decade.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Joe Biden to propose big tax rises for billionaires and corporate America was Dkr4188 now Dkr1999 for your first year. Make up your own mind. Build robust opinions with the FT’s trusted journalism. Offer available here until 24th October.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2024-03-07): While big corporations and the wealthy will pay more in taxes under President Biden’s policies, President Biden opposes tax increases on middle-class families. He has pledged that under his Administration, no one earning less than $400,000 will pay an additional penny in federal taxes—not one penny. [...] - Raising the corporate tax rate to 28% and the corporate minimum tax to 21%. President Biden believes large corporations should pay their fair share, and is committed to reversing the massive tax giveaway to big corporations that Republicans enacted in 2017. President Biden would raise the corporate tax rate to 28%. He would also ensure that billion-dollar corporations pay at least 21% of their income in taxes, building on the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) corporate minimum tax. [...] - Raise taxes on millions of middle-class and working families. Republican efforts to repeal President Biden’s improvements to the ACA premium tax credits would increase taxes by an average of about $800 for millions of Americans, especially older people and self-employed people. The Republican plan would also repeal the IRA’s clean energy tax credits, which would raise taxes by thousands of dollars for families installing a heat pump or solar panels.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2024-05-10): President Joe Biden's top economic advisor on Friday laid out plans for the country's looming debate over trillions in expiring tax breaks enacted by former President Donald Trump. [...] Renewing Biden's pledge for "tax fairness," she said the administration aims to extend expiring TCJA provisions for middle-class Americans. Those extensions would be funded by raising taxes on the ultra-wealthy and corporations. [...] The administration also wants to quadruple the tax on stock buybacks and add a 25% minimum income tax for billionaires, Brainard said.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2023-03-27): To be sure, Mr. Biden's budget isn't set in stone — instead, it reflects a starting point for negotiations with lawmakers, who ultimately craft and pass spending bills and new tax laws. But the White House's push to raise taxes on the wealthy reflects a push to place a higher burden on the richest Americans in order to increase funding for education, housing and health care, among other priorities. "As Biden has made clear since his 2020 campaign, he wants to raise taxes substantially on high-income households and corporations and provide modest tax cuts to low- and moderate-income households," wrote Tax Policy Center senior fellow Howard Gleckman in a blog post. "And, like it or not, that's what his budget does." [...] The biggest lever hiking taxes on high-income households is tied to the Biden administration's proposal to boost the highest rate on capital gains taxes from 20% to 39.6%, the Tax Policy Center noted.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2024-03-14): "President Biden’s $7 trillion tax increase on small businesses and families means fewer jobs, higher prices, and handing our competitive advantage to China. Far from going after the wealthy, these are tax hikes that hit workers, mom-and-pop business owners, seniors nearing retirement, and family farms and ranches. And with the IRS getting another $104 billion and an expanded ability to approve penalties, Democrats will be on the fast track to collect your life savings." [...] Breaking Pledge Not to Raise Taxes on Small Businesses - President Biden’s proposal to raise the top rate to 39.6 percent goes after small business owners who pay their business taxes via their individual tax return – despite his pledge not to raise taxes on small businesses. [...] Going After the Sweat Equity of Small Business Owners - Biden calls to expand the Net Investment Income Tax (NIIT) to apply to "non-passive business income" – meaning owner operators of businesses (e.g. mom-and-pop shops and family-owned businesses) will have to pay higher taxes.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2024-06-28): President Biden focused on the cost of the TCJA. "He had the largest tax cut in American history, $2 trillion. He raised the deficit larger than any president has in any one term … " he said of President Trump. "He got a two trillion-dollar tax code, benefited the very wealthy. What I'm going to do is fix the taxes," including by increasing taxes on billionaires. Biden further said of Trump, "Now you want a new tax cut of $5 trillion over the next ten years, which is going to fundamentally bankrupt the country." Former President Trump drew contrast with President Biden on tax and trumpeted the benefits of the TCJA. "He wants to raise your taxes by four times. He wants to raise everybody's taxes by four times. He wants the Trump tax cuts to expire so everybody, including the two of you are going to pay four to five times … " Trump said. "All my life I'd grow up and I'd see politicians talking about cutting taxes. When we cut taxes, as I said, we did more business … and all these companies, they were bringing money back into our country."
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2024-06-27): BIDEN: Yes, make the very wealthy begin to pay their fair share. Right now, everybody making under $170,000 pays 6 percent of their income, of their paycheck, every single time they get a paycheck, from the time of the first one they get when they’re 18 years old. [...] And if I’m given another four years, I will be the best. I think I’ll be the best. Nobody’s ever created an economy like us. Nobody ever cut taxes like us. He’s the only one I know. He wants to raise your taxes by four times. He wants to raise everybody’s taxes by four times. He wants the Trump tax cuts to expire so everybody, including the two of you are going to pay four to five times. Nobody ever heard of this before. [...] BIDEN: Look, the fact of the matter is that he’s dead wrong about it. He’s increased the tariff – he’s increased – he will increase the taxes on middle class people. I said I’d never raise a tax on anybody making less than $400,000. I didn’t.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2024-01-10): Why is the Biden Administration Raising Taxes…Again? [...] As of May, 58% of American adults—roughly 150 million people—live paycheck to paycheck, according to a new LendingClub report. Now, despite President Biden’s promise not to raise taxes on Americans making less than $400,000 a year, he’s done just that. In addition to raising taxes, this bill would give $80 billion to the IRS for additional audits and 87,000 new IRS agents. Americans are struggling, and what is the Biden Administration’s plan? Increasing taxes again. And it doesn’t just increase taxes on American families, it raises taxes on American businesses as well, which experts say will result in higher prices, fewer jobs, and lower wages. According to the National Association of Manufacturers, the business tax hike would eliminate more than 218,000 jobs. And a recent study by the Joint Committee on Taxation found that nearly half of this legislation’s tax burden would fall on manufacturers. When our supply chain is already disrupted, it is unconscionable for the Biden Administration to make it even harder for families to make ends meet and find the goods and products they need.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2023-04-28): "Biden broke that promise long ago — raising the tax burden on families making as little as $20,000/year." [...] One of the issues with this claim is that without sufficient context, one could be led to believe it means Biden has increased taxes for people earning $20,000. [...] There is some giveaway wording here, though. Rather than saying Biden has increased taxes for those on $20,000 per year, the tweet says he raised the "tax burden."
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2024-08-09): - Trump warned that Biden "wants to raise your taxes by four times," but Biden has not proposed anything like that. Trump was also mostly wrong when he said Biden "wants the Trump tax cuts to expire." Biden said he would extend them for anyone making under $400,000 a year. [...] Trump on Biden Tax Plan "He’s the only one I know he wants to raise your taxes by four times," Trump said of Biden. "He wants to raise everybody’s taxes by four times. He wants the Trump tax cuts to expire. So everybody … [is] going to pay four to five times – nobody ever heard of this before." [...] As we wrote in 2020, when Trump made a similar claim, Biden proposed during that campaign to raise an additional $4 trillion in taxes over the next decade, although the increases would have fallen mainly on very high-income earners and corporations. The plan would not have doubled or tripled people’s taxes at any income level (on average), according to analyses of Biden’s plan by the Penn Wharton Budget Model, the Tax Policy Center and the Tax Foundation.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2024-05-31): If you’re one of the millions of Americans struggling to save for retirement today, get ready for more struggle, at least if President Biden gets his way. He’s proposing a tax hike on savings that would mean a negative rate of return for many people after adjusting for inflation. [...] That’s why every American should be horrified that Biden wants to raise this tax to the highest rate in 111 years. Such a move would severely hamper people’s ability to save for retirement, and it would cripple economic growth. [...] Much of the White House’s proposed tax increases on investment will be hidden from view, but will nonetheless hamper your attempts to save and eventually retire. Biden’s proposed higher corporate income tax will be passed on, of course. Customers will pay higher prices, workers will receive lower wages, and investors (savers) will see lower rates of return.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2024-08-19): "The campaign specifically told us that they support all of the tax increases on the high earners and corporations that are in the Biden budget, but they did not tell us" those changes would directly pay for Friday’s tax proposals, CFRB senior vice president Marc Goldwein told Semafor. "And obviously, none of them is specifically mentioned in this [Harris] plan." If Harris’ campaign stands by its statement to CFRB, that would go a long way toward filling in the fiscal blanks as she starts rolling out specific policy proposals. The tax plans she released Friday would cost roughly $2 trillion over 10 years, according to CFRB, while the proposed tax increases that Biden’s budget largely aimed at the wealthiest Americans and large corporations would raise nearly $5 trillion over 10 years. [...] The Democratic platform, though it was crafted before Biden dropped out of the race and features several references to his "second term," includes several other tax changes that appear in Biden’s fiscal year 2025 budget. Among them: support for the 25% "billionaire tax" on the income of the super-rich who claim more than $100 million in assets and quadrupling the stock buyback tax to 4%.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2023-09-11): Just because the government raises taxes, doesn’t necessarily mean it will raise more revenues. The Biden administration is discovering that the hard way. In August 2022, President Joe Biden signed the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act into law, which included a new tax on companies’ financial statement income, new IRS funding to increase audits, an excise tax on stock buybacks, and more taxes on natural gas, oil, and coal. To top it off, certain Trump administration business tax cuts simultaneously have been phasing out. [...] Congress and the White House are spending at a breakneck pace, and now tax revenues have fallen significantly as generous tax credits and a slowing economy outweigh the revenues from Biden’s economically harmful new taxes.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2024-03-11): President Joe Biden on March 11 sent Congress a fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget that proposes to increase taxes by nearly $5 trillion for corporations and for individuals with incomes above $400,000. Many of the president’s tax proposals -- including a proposal to increase the corporate tax rate to 28% and impose a 25% minimum tax on certain high-income individuals – were included in President Biden’s previous budgets. New tax proposals in the FY 2025 budget include measures to increase the recently enacted corporate alternative minimum tax rate from 15% to 21% and to deny business deductions for employee compensation above $1 million. President Biden’s FY 2025 budget proposals to increase taxes will not be considered by the current Congress in which Republicans control the House, but do provide a marker for his tax policy priorities if he is re-elected. [...] President Biden’s proposal to increase the top individual ordinary income tax rate to 39.6% is projected to raise $245.9 billion over 10 years. The proposal to tax capital gain income for high earners at ordinary rates is projected to raise $288.5 billion over the same period.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2024-05-01): Indeed, his most recent budget included multiple ways Biden could revise the TCJA while not raising taxes for "all" or even most households. He could cut taxes for some and raise them for others. He could let the law expire and immediately replace it with a package that retains many provisions of the TCJA, but with a new name. For months before that tweet, Biden had been vowing to never raise taxes for those making $400,000 or less while paying for extending many of the TCJA’s individual provisions by raising taxes on high-income households and corporations. Biden never made clear whether his pledge applies only to direct taxes on individuals or also includes the share of corporate taxes paid by workers and shareholders. Still, even in the heated rhetoric of a presidential campaign, claiming that Biden is flip-flopping on his long-time promise to protect those under $400,000 tax filers seems a stretch. Not raising taxes on 95 percent of households is not the same as preserving in amber every TCJA tax provision for that group. His most recent tweet is consistent with his long-standing pledge, if somewhat dramatic.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2024-06-28): Fact check: Does Biden want to raise ‘everybody’s taxes’ by four times? "Nobody ever cut taxes like us. He wants to raise your taxes by four times. He wants to raise everybody’s taxes by four times," Trump claimed. "He wants the Trump tax cuts to expire." Biden’s tax plan "holds harmless for 98% of households," said Kyle Pomerleau, senior fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. And Biden wants to extend the majority of the Trump tax cuts, too, though he has advocated for hiking taxes on very high earners.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2024-06-21): Biden proposes to raise corporate rates from 21 percent to 28 percent — still below the 35 percent rate Trump’s 2017 law cut it from — and preserve the Trump-era tax cuts for individuals earning less than $400,000, including a higher standard deduction. [...] "This is going be a big debate we’re going to have, I’m sure through the election, because President Biden wants to raise everybody’s taxes," Rep. Steve Scalise (La.), the No. 2 Republican in the House, told The Washington Post. "He tries to act like it’s not going to affect certain people, but when you raise taxes, it hits everybody, especially low-income families. Look at what his energy policies have done. The people hit the hardest are low-income families paying higher gas prices, paying more at the grocery store and more for their household electricity bills all because of bad Biden policies." [...] Democrats are split on what to do with the revenue their proposed tax increases would generate. Previous Biden-era investments covered a broad swath of programs, from child care to internet access and housing support. Many of those programs have since expired, and with divided control of Congress, they have little chance of being reinstated. Biden’s budget, a largely symbolic reelection blueprint, called for new federal spending to lower consumer costs for health care, child care and housing.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2024-02-07): - Trump: Joe Biden wants to raise taxes on all Americans. Largely False - Trump: Joe Biden would have the largest tax increase in history. Almost True. [...] Claim #1: Joe Biden wants to raise taxes on all Americans. During a presidential candidate town hall held in lieu of the second debate, President Trump said "...Biden comes in and raises taxes on everybody, including middle income taxes, which he wants to do." We previously factchecked similar claims by United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and Eric Trump and found them somewhat misleading to largely false. We have adapted this factcheck from Would Joe Biden Significantly Raise Taxes on Middle Class Americans? and find that this claim is largely false.
Claim: Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes." (Donald Trump, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2024-10-04): From President Biden calling the TaxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover the costs of general government services, goods, and activities. Cuts and Jobs Act the "largest tax cut in American history," to former President Trump claiming that Biden "wants to raise your taxes by four times," the campaign rhetoric on taxes may be sparking some confusion. [...] On a gross basis, Biden would increase taxes by $4.4 trillion (an average of 1.19 percent of GDP per year) before reducing taxes by nearly $900 billion through expanded tax credits and preferences (an average of -0.25 percent of GDP per year). Together, the tax changes would increase average annual revenue by 0.94 percent of GDP, which would rank as the 9th largest tax increase since 1940 and the 2nd largest outside of wartime.
Claim: “Lego donates model MRI kits to hospitals to help children understand the procedure and reduce their anxiety.” (Instagram posts, 2023-10-08)
Evidence (2023-10-08): A Lego employee and physicians at a Danish hospital first developed a Lego model of a magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, machine, in 2015 to help children understand the procedure and feel comfortable before their exams. After a successful pilot program, Lego said in 2022 that it would donate 600 model MRI scanners to hospitals worldwide.
Claim: “Lego donates model MRI kits to hospitals to help children understand the procedure and reduce their anxiety.” (Instagram posts, 2023-10-08)
Evidence (2023-01-23): Billund, Denmark, 23 February 2022 – The LEGO Foundation has announced it will donate 600 LEGO® MRI Scanners to hospitals worldwide to help children cope with the uncertainty of having a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan. [...] Close to 100 hospitals across the world have already benefitted from the use of the LEGO MRI Scanner thanks to Erik and his heartfelt dedication. The project has been extremely well received and in order to create even bigger impact and better grasp of its potential, the LEGO Foundation is now scaling the project and encouraging hospitals from all over the world to apply for one of the 600 models currently available. Built by LEGO volunteers, the models will be shipped completely free of charge to hospitals. Once distributed, the LEGO Foundation will generate insights from participating hospitals to continue building evidence-based research and in turn guide potential future projects. To best support the use of LEGO MRI Scanners, the LEGO Foundation has developed four training videos to accompany the model. These videos are designed to help medical staff guide children through the process of a MRI scan – and in turn, facilitate their social and emotional learning through play. The videos are available free of charge to any hospital wanting to learn more about the approach.
Claim: “Lego donates model MRI kits to hospitals to help children understand the procedure and reduce their anxiety.” (Instagram posts, 2023-10-08)
Evidence (2022-02-07): Getting an MRI can be a scary experience for a child, but Lego is seeking to alleviate kids’ fears via an innovative approach: custom MRI models. Lego employee Erik Staehr wanted to help doctors and nurses prepare children for the procedure, and he designed an MRI scanner Lego kit that will be available only to hospitals. "This would reduce their anxiety and make their experience more playful and less scary," the toy manufacturer wrote on its website. "The MRI model is now being built by employees across the world to distribute to their local hospitals."