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Claim: Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.” (Donald Trump, 2024-06-02)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Joe Biden to revive plan for billionaire tax in State of the Union address 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: Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.” (Donald Trump, 2024-06-02)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Joe Biden proposes big tax rises in budget to shave $3tn off US deficit 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: Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.” (Donald Trump, 2024-06-02)
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. [...] Observation: President Biden was unable to gain support for many of his key corporate and individual tax proposals during his first two years in office, when Democrats narrowly controlled both the House and Senate. The Senate in particular became a stumbling block and the outcome could have been significantly different if his party had held even one more seat in the Senate at that time. Republicans in the next Congress might be forced to consider some of President Biden’s tax increase proposals as part of a compromise bill preserving key TCJA tax provisions that benefit families and small businesses. [...] 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: Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.” (Donald Trump, 2024-06-02)
Evidence (2024-06-02): Donald Trump’s False claim that Joe Biden wants to quadruple your taxes [...] Biden does propose to quadruple one particular type of tax. He proposes raising the tax on stock buybacks for certain corporations from its current 1% to 4%. In a stock buyback, the company would pay shareholders the market value of their holdings to take possession of their shares. [...] Trump said Biden wants "to quadruple your taxes."
Claim: Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.” (Donald Trump, 2024-06-02)
Evidence (2024-03-07): - The Biden administration wants to quadruple the stock buyback tax to 4%. [...] The Biden administration wants to quadruple taxes on corporate stock buybacks. [...] "President Biden would quadruple the stock buyback tax from one percent to four percent to address the continued tax advantage for buybacks and encourage corporations to invest in productivity and the broader economy rather than windfalls for investors," the White House said.
Claim: Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.” (Donald Trump, 2024-06-02)
Evidence (2024-03-12): President Joe Biden on March 11 released his $7.3 trillion proposed budget for fiscal year 2025, which calls for protecting Social Security, raising the corporate tax rate and quadrupling the tax on corporate stock buybacks. [...] Separately, Biden's budget also proposes raising the minimum corporate tax rate to 21% from 15%, which he called for in his State of the Union address. The Inflation Reduction Act, which Democrats passed in August 2022, previously established a 15% minimum corporate tax rate and a 1% tax on stock buybacks. Under his new budget, Biden proposes quadrupling the stock buybacks tax to 4%, according to a separate White House fact sheet.
Claim: Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.” (Donald Trump, 2024-06-02)
Evidence (2024-06-28): Trump claims Biden wants to quadruple taxes. Fact-checkers say: False. Trump at one point during the debate over tax policy claimed that Biden wants to quadruple taxes for Americans. [...] Biden has pledged to raise taxes only on corporations and taxpayers making more than $400,000 per year. Some experts question, however, whether long-term debt issues can be solved with that approach alone.
Claim: Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.” (Donald Trump, 2024-06-02)
Evidence (2024-06-27): Here’s another example using numbers to tell a deceptive story: Biden said the Trump administration "added more to the national debt than any presidential term in American history." This is accurate — but only until Biden’s own one-term debt total exceeds the amount accumulated under Trump. By the time he leaves office, Biden is projected to have overseen a debt increase larger than Trump’s. Then there are taxes, which the candidates couldn’t see more differently. Trump often says, falsely, that Biden wants to "quadruple your taxes." Biden proposed a tax increase of about 7 percent over the next decade, almost exclusively on the wealthiest Americans and corporations, not the 300 percent that Trump said. Biden has frequently said the average federal tax for billionaires is 8.3 percent, but that’s False. Under the current tax code, the richest Americans pay an effective tax rate of more than 20 percent on income the government counts. Biden’s 8 percent figure compares their tax payments with an amount that includes income that is not currently taxed under law, making it a theoretical figure.
Claim: Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.” (Donald Trump, 2024-06-02)
Evidence (2024-09-05): Why it matters: Harris' call for Americans making $1 million a year to pay a 28% capital gains rate marked a symbolic departure from President Biden, who prefers a higher 39.6% tax. [...] Flashback: For Biden, taxing capital gains as regular income — which is where the 39.6% rate comes from — has always been a matter of basic economic fairness. "We're going to get rid of the loopholes that allow Americans who make more than $1 million a year to pay a lower rate on their capital gains than working Americans pay on their work," he said in his first address to a joint session of Congress.
Claim: Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.” (Donald Trump, 2024-06-02)
Evidence (2024-05-15): "Joe Biden’s economic plan is to make China rich and America poor," he said at a rally this month in Wisconsin.
Claim: Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.” (Donald Trump, 2024-06-02)
Evidence (2024-04-18): Joe Biden announced plans to triple tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum and promised to block the acquisition of US Steel by a Japanese company during a speech to steelworkers on Wednesday in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, where union support could prove crucial in the November general election. [...] Trump’s proposals would "badly hurt" American consumers and cost the average American family an average of $1,500 a year, Biden warned. In response, the Trump campaign said Biden had spent his entire career "betraying" working Americans by supporting Chinese membership in the World Trade Organization in 2011. The former president is spending much of the week in a Manhattan courtroom in his criminal trial.
Claim: Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.” (Donald Trump, 2024-06-02)
Evidence (2024-06-28): Is Biden planning to quadruple taxes? CLAIM: Trump said that Biden "wants to raise your taxes by four times... He wants the Trump tax cuts to expire". VERDICT: President Biden’s most recent US budget, external makes no reference to the quadrupling of taxes for ordinary households. In fact, it proposes tax cuts for families earning less than $400,000 a year, along with increases for higher earners.
Claim: Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.” (Donald Trump, 2024-06-02)
Evidence (2024-03-07): - 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. [...] - Quadrupling the stock buyback tax. In response to the surge in corporate stock buybacks after the Trump tax cuts, President Biden signed into law a surcharge on stock buybacks that encourages businesses to invest in their growth and productivity as opposed to funneling tax-preferred profits to wealthy and foreign shareholders. President Biden would quadruple the stock buyback tax from one percent to four percent to address the continued tax advantage for buybacks and encourage corporations to invest in productivity and the broader economy rather than windfalls for investors.
Claim: Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.” (Donald Trump, 2024-06-02)
Evidence (2024-06-28): Is Biden planning to quadruple taxes? CLAIM: Trump said that Biden "wants to raise your taxes by four times... He wants the Trump tax cuts to expire". VERDICT: President Biden’s most recent US budget makes no reference to the quadrupling of taxes for ordinary households. In fact, it proposes tax cuts for families earning less than $400,000 a year, along with increases for higher earners.
Claim: Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.” (Donald Trump, 2024-06-02)
Evidence (2020-05-13): President Donald Trump falsely claims that Democrats propose "doubling, tripling, quadrupling your taxes" and that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s plan specifically would result in "doubling and tripling your taxes." Biden proposes to raise an additional $4 trillion in taxes over the next decade, but the increases would fall mainly on very high-income earners and corporations, and would not nearly double, let alone triple or quadruple, 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. [...] But it’s a huge stretch to say that Biden’s plan would double, triple or quadruple people’s taxes.
Claim: Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.” (Donald Trump, 2024-06-02)
Evidence (2024-09-26): On a gross basis, we estimate Biden’s FY 2025 budget would increase taxes by about $4.4 trillion over that period. After taking various credits into account, the increase would be about $3.4 trillion. The tax increases would substantially increase marginal tax rates on investment, saving, and work, reducing economic output by 1.6 percent in the long run, wages by 1.1 percent, and employment by 666,000 full-time equivalent jobs. [...] Biden also proposes quadrupling the IRA’s 1 percent excise taxAn excise tax is a tax imposed on a specific good or activity. Excise taxes are commonly levied on cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, soda, gasoline, insurance premiums, amusement activities, and betting, and typically make up a relatively small and volatile portion of state and local and, to a lesser extent, federal tax collections. on stock buybacks. Stock buybacks are one of the ways businesses return value to their shareholders. Companies can return earnings to shareholders by issuing dividends (namely cash payments) or with stock buybacks (purchasing shares of their own company). As much as 95 percent of the money returned to shareholders from stock buybacks subsequently gets reinvested in other public companies. Quadrupling the tax rate would likely discourage firms from pursuing stock buybacks, potentially tilting toward more dividend issuances instead, and could discourage investment.
Claim: Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.” (Donald Trump, 2024-06-02)
Evidence (2020-10-13): Trump said Biden "wants to quadruple your taxes." Not even close, according to both Biden himself and independent analyses.
Claim: Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.” (Donald Trump, 2024-06-02)
Evidence (2024-04-17): President Joe Biden is calling on the U.S. Trade Representative to triple the China tariff rate on steel and aluminum imports as he makes the rounds in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania. [...] Biden's escalated push to hike tariffs comes as he balances election-year politics with a fragile geopolitical landscape and heightened concerns about the strength of the U.S. economy. [...] Biden, speaking to reporters on Wednesday, insisted that there is "no trade war" with China, despite his call to triple tariffs.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2024-05-20): Former President Donald Trump has said several times over the years that he wants to replace the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare — most recently in December. Trump has since walked back this stance, writing on social media in March that he "isn’t running to terminate" the health care law, but instead wants to make it "better" and "less expensive." Trump hasn’t said how he would do this, and health care policy experts said it’s difficult to know where he stands without a detailed plan.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2023-12-27): As he campaigns for a return to the White House, former President Trump vowed recently to "never give up" his call to repeal Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act. Trump and congressional Republicans came within one vote of repealing the law during his first term — a defeat that he ranks as one of his biggest disappointments. [...] Trump wrote on his social media platform on Christmas that the ACA is "too expensive, and otherwise, not good healthcare," while promising to come up with "a much better, and less expensive, alternative!" "We had a couple of Republican Senators who campaigned for 6 years against it, and then raised their hands not to terminate it," Trump wrote in November. "It was a low point for the Republican Party, but we should never give up!"
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2024-09-04): As president, Donald Trump attempted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but failed. Since running for a second term as president he’s wavered on the issue. In January, for example, Trump repeated his repeal pledge before backtracking on the idea in March, asserting in a post on Truth Social that he instead wanted to make the ACA "better." Indeed, now he and other Republicans claim they want to improve the healthcare program. [...] Yet Trump has been highly critical of the ACA, otherwise known as Obamacare, which has near-universal coverage as its main objective. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump pledged to immediately repeal and replace the ACA. That promise ultimately went unfulfilled. But it’s worth retelling a condensed account of the story of how we got to this point in which Trump appears to no longer set his sights on dismantling the ACA. [...] The perennial problem for Republicans who’ve wanted to get rid of the ACA is that the law contains provisions that are popular with voters. These include guaranteed coverage along with community rating for people with pre-existing health conditions; subsidies for individuals who purchase health insurance on the federally run state exchanges; and permission for those under 26 to remain on their parents’ insurance plans.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2024-05-08): In the ad, titled "Terminate," Biden assails former President Donald Trump for his past promises to overturn the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Biden also warns of the potential effect if Trump is returned to office and again pursues repeal. [...] Even if you consider the broadest definition of the number of Americans living with such conditions, "there is zero way you could justify that 100 million people would lose coverage" without ACA protections, said Theo Merkel, who was a Trump administration health policy adviser and is now a senior research fellow with the Paragon Health Institute and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative think tank. [...] PolitiFact, "Does Trump want to repeal the ACA, as Biden says? Tracking his changing stance over the years," June 3, 2024
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2024-09-30): He has said he still wants to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, for example, though he has not specified how. In his September debate with Harris, he said he only has "concepts of a plan." [...] That is the same language Republicans used to describe their plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare," in 2017 when Trump was in office and spent most of his first year trying to get rid of the law. [...] The point of Monday’s paper from the Harris campaign is to remind people that Trump tried to repeal before ― and could try it again ― threatening health care access for the tens of millions who now depend on the Affordable Care Act.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2024-09-15): If Your Time is short - As president, Donald Trump cut funding for Affordable Care Act marketing, outreach and enrollment assistance and expanded access to short-term, limited-coverage plans that Democrats call "junk insurance." [...] Most of the Trump administration’s Affordable Care Act-related actions involved cutting the program, including reducing by millions of dollars funding for marketing and enrollment assistance and backing the many failed efforts in Congress and the courts to overturn the law. In June 2020, for example, the administration asked the Supreme Court to overturn the law in a case brought by more than a dozen GOP states. The high court eventually rejected the case. [...] The New York Times, Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strike down Affordable Care Act, June 26, 2020
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2020-06-29): "Everybody knows that Trump and the GOP’s attacks on health care were a driving force behind the energy that built the blue wave in 2018. Now Trump is fighting yet again to trash the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a shrug," says Ezra Levin, co-founder of the liberal grassroots network Indivisible. "We welcome this political malpractice, and it makes it easy for Biden to simply stand against death and destruction—which is, you know, a winning campaign message." [...] Pushing to overturn the ACA has been a Republican goal ever since the law first passed in 2010, and opposition to the health care law fueled the rise of the Tea Party during the Obama presidency. But in recent years, attempts to gut Obamacare have benefited Democrats more than Republicans, as more and more Americans have gotten used to the law’s protections. A June poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 53% of Americans trusted Biden to handle health care policy, compared to just 38% who trusted Donald Trump.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2024-01-07): Former President Donald Trump is doubling down on his vow to repeal Obamacare if he wins the White House again, even though an increasing number of Americans have embraced the landmark health reform law in recent years. [...] A record number of people are signing up for Obamacare policies and the law enjoys much higher favorability ratings among the public than it ever has. But although it has been a politically losing issue for Republicans in recent elections, Trump has revived his quest to kill Obamacare during his latest bid for the GOP nomination. It began in November, when he posted on his Truth Social site that Republicans should "never give up" trying to terminate the law and that he would replace it with "MUCH BETTER HEALTHCARE." [...] The nearly 14-year-old law is even more embedded in the nation’s health care system than it was when Trump took office, vowing to eradicate Obamacare. But he and the Republican lawmakers who controlled Congress ultimately failed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act after months of unsuccessful attempts to come up with an alternative.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2024-09-16): "Trump was not successful as president in undoing the ACA, but it was not for lack of trying," said Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at KFF, a nonpartisan research group. "Trump encouraged congressional efforts to repeal and replace the ACA, and then took administrative steps to try to weaken it when the legislative route failed." On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order proclaiming: "It is the policy of my Administration to seek the prompt repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act." [...] In 2020, he endorsed a lawsuit that would have wiped out the ACA entirely. The case made it all the way to the Supreme Court, and the Trump administration formally asked the justices to rule for the challengers and terminate the law, despite the political risks as he sought re-election.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2024-09-11): WASHINGTON — Donald Trump took aim at the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday in his presidential debate with Kamala Harris, reviving a 15-year-old partisan fight over a law that has swung from a liability to a political asset for Democrats. [...] Trump indicated that he’d only eliminate the ACA, also called "Obamacare," if he could devise a better and cheaper system. Pressed by debate moderators on whether he has a plan, he said, "I have concepts of a plan," adding that he intends to release "concepts and options ... in the not-too-distant future." [...] The 2010 law, signed by then-President Barack Obama, was unpopular early on and weaponized politically by Republicans, who vowed to "repeal and replace" it if given power. But in 2017, when Trump and a GOP-led Congress sought to undo the law, it sparked a public backlash and enhanced the ACA’s popularity. A Trump-backed Republican repeal bill sought to roll back the subsidies for expanding coverage and unwind some of the ACA’s protections for people with pre-existing conditions, one of its most popular features. It fell one vote short when Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., unexpectedly voted "no" during a late-night Senate session.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2024-06-05): Trump’s repeated declarations over the past several weeks that he intends to finally repeal the ACA if reelected surprised many Republicans. Few GOP leaders have talked about uprooting the law since the party’s last effort failed, during Trump’s first year as president. At that point, Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress. But whereas the House, with Trump’s enthusiastic support, narrowly voted to rescind the law, the Senate narrowly rejected repeal. Three GOP senators blocked the repeal effort by voting no—including the late Senator John McCain, who dramatically doomed the proposal by signaling thumbs-down on the Senate floor. (Trump mocked McCain while calling the ACA "a catastrophe" as he campaigned in Iowa last weekend.)