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Claim: Former President Donald Trump "intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year." (Kamala Harris, 2024-08-22)
Evidence (2024-08-25): Under the Biden-Harris administration, the IRS has also beefed up tax enforcement to ensure that wealthier people and businesses pay what they owe. GOP lawmakers have criticized that effort, and it would likely be reversed in a second Trump administration. Both Harris and Trump have proposed exempting tips from taxation. While popular with workers in the swing state of Nevada, where many people work in tip-heavy industries like casinos, the idea has serious problems. Unless the lost tax revenue were replaced somehow, it would create an even bigger budget deficit. It would treat one class of workers (tipped employees) differently from all other workers. And it would invite gamesmanship as other workers tried to have part of their own income reclassified as tax-free tips. Depending on how the exemptions were structured, it could also result in lower retirement benefits for tipped workers. – Scott Horsley 8. "And all the while he intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax? Call it a Trump tax that would raise prices on middle class families by almost $4,000 a year."
Claim: Former President Donald Trump "intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year." (Kamala Harris, 2024-08-22)
Evidence (2024-08-22): In many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man. (Laughter.) But the consequences — but the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious. (Applause.) [...] And consider — consider what he intends to do if we give him power again. Consider his explicit intent to set free violent extremists who assaulted those law enforcement officers at the Capitol; his explicit intent to jail journalists, political opponents, and anyone he sees as the enemy; his explicit intent to deploy our active-duty military against our own citizens. [...] THE VICE PRESIDENT: And all the while, he intends to enact what in effect is a national sales tax — call it a "Trump tax" — that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump "intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year." (Kamala Harris, 2024-08-22)
Evidence (2024-09-02): Even as Trump proposes tax cuts that would benefit wealthier Americans, Harris said, he "intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax — call it a Trump tax — that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year."
Claim: Former President Donald Trump "intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year." (Kamala Harris, 2024-08-22)
Evidence (2024-08-30): Former president Donald Trump has said that, if he is elected for another term, he will impose an across-the-board tariff on all imported products. As is usual with Trump, he doesn’t offer many specifics — and they can change day-to-day. Sometimes he has suggested it would be a 10 percent tariff; another time he floated it as high as 20 percent. He has also indicated that he would impose a 60 percent tariff on Chinese products. [...] Trump’s undisciplined messaging has given Vice President Kamala Harris an opening to argue, as she did in her nomination acceptance speech at the Democratic convention, that Trump would harm middle-class voters. "He intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax," she said. Her figure is a high estimate from a left-leaning group supportive of Democrats, but other economists agree such tariffs would raise prices for Americans. [...] The Trump campaign has cried foul about Harris’s claim that the tariffs are, in effect, a national sales tax. But at least her statement is based on widely accepted economic theory on the immediate impact of tariffs. One could argue over whether the estimate of the impact is correct. As we noted, she embraces a high estimate.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump "intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year." (Kamala Harris, 2024-08-22)
Evidence (2024-08-23): Fact checking Harris' claim that Trump's tariff plan will cost families almost $4,000 per year: Partially true, needs context [...] Details: Harris is citing an estimate of potential costs if former President Donald Trump were to implement tariffs on imported goods. Trump has advocated for a tariff of at least 10% on most imports and a tariff of at least 60% on Chinese imports. Estimates of the potential costs and the likely scale of the tariffs vary. An analysis by the Center for American Progress Action, a progressive policy think tank, estimated that a 20% tariff on most imports, combined with a 60% tax on Chinese goods, would amount to a tax increase of around $3,900 annually for middle-income families.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump "intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year." (Kamala Harris, 2024-08-22)
Evidence (2024-08-23): Trump is right that home affordability is currently at a low point, but economists say his constant harping about inflation under the Biden-Harris Administration is misleading and that his plans could actually worsen the situation. While Harris said his "national sales tax"—a label her campaign has given to his tariffs plan—would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year, an August estimate by the left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress placed the annual burden per household between $2,500 and $3,900, while the Peterson Institute for International Economics estimated the cost on middle-income households to be more than $2,600 per year.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump "intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year." (Kamala Harris, 2024-08-22)
Evidence (2024-08-23): Harris said, "As a part of his agenda, [Trump] and his allies would limit access to birth control, ban medication abortion, and enact a nationwide abortion ban, with or without Congress. And get this … He plans to create a national anti-abortion coordinator and force states to report on women's miscarriages and abortions." [...] The plan proposes withholding federal money from states that don’t report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention how many abortions take place within their borders; would prohibit abortion providers, such as Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid funds; and calls for the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that the training of medical professionals, including doctors and nurses, omits abortion training. [...] —PolitiFact’s Samantha Putterman and Aaron Sharockman
Claim: Former President Donald Trump "intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year." (Kamala Harris, 2024-08-22)
Evidence (2024-08-23): Harris said Trump "intends to enact what in effect is a national sales tax -call it a Trump tax - that would raise prices on middle class families by almost $4,000 a year." Trump has said that he would propose a 10% tariff on all non-domestic goods sold in the U.S. While tariffs are levied separately from taxes, economists say that much of their impact would be passed along to consumers, making them analogous to a tax. [...] The American Action Forum, a center-right think tank, has projected additional costs per household of $1,700 to $2,350 annually. The Peterson Institute of International Economics, another Washington, D.C.-based think tank, projected that such tariffs would cost a middle-income household about $1,700 extra each year.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2024-06-21): Former President Donald Trump frequently spoke negatively, and sometimes falsely, about voting by mail in 2020. He called the practice "corrupt" at a February 2024 rally in Michigan. This year, he has said his goal is "one-day voting." But he has also told voters that voting by mail is a good option. In June, Trump said "whether you vote early, absentee, by mail, or in person we are going to protect the vote."
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2024-06-26): Liberal group’s ad says Trump is ‘against mail in voting.’ That omits his recent comments [...] Former President Donald Trump frequently spoke negatively, and sometimes falsely, about voting by mail in 2020. He called the practice "corrupt" at a February 2024 rally in Michigan. [...] Trump said that in response to a reporter’s question about his opposition to voting by mail. Trump also said, "If you're a senior citizen and if you're somebody that needs (mail-in voting), I'm all for it."
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2024-10-02): Trump has spread many falsehoods about voting by mail, even though he has sometimes used it himself as a Florida voter. Mail-in voting provides more opportunity for fraud than in-person voting, but it’s still rare. [...] RELATED: Liberal group’s ad says Trump is ‘against mail in voting.’ That omits his recent comments
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2024-10-03): WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump and his campaign have accused special counsel Jack Smith of violating long-standing Justice Department norms by including new revelations about his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in a filing released Wednesday. [...] Trump argued on his Truth Social account Thursday that the Justice Department should do "absolutely nothing" that could interfere with an election in the 60 days before it. "They disobeyed their own rule in favor of complete and total election interference," he wrote in one post. "I did nothing wrong, they did! The case is a scam, just like all of the others."
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2024-10-05): Local election officials, in compliance with federal law, complete an effort to remove ineligible voters from the rolls such as those who moved not later than 90 days before an election. (Some removals still take place after that deadline, such as when people alert the elections office that they have moved or that a family member died.) But there are additional steps election officials take to protect the election. About two-thirds of states have laws requiring voters to show ID at the polls. The remaining 14 states verify voters’ identities in other ways, such as a signature which is checked against information on file. Mail-in voting has safeguards Trump has spread many falsehoods about voting by mail, even though he has sometimes used it himself as a Florida voter. Mail-in voting provides more opportunity for fraud than in-person voting, but it’s still rare. There are protections in place to prevent people from casting multiple ballots. Take California, which Trump has falsely criticized as sending seven ballots to every voter. California is one of eight states plus Washington, D.C., that send a ballot to all registered, active voters.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2024-10-03): Special counsel Jack Smith laid out a detailed road map to his federal 2020 election subversion case against former President Trump in unprecedented court documents that were unsealed Wednesday, just about a month before the presidential election. [...] That includes baseless claims Trump promoted about noncitizens and dead people voting in elections. [...] A month later, Trump spoke with McDaniel and asked her to promote a private report that claimed to identify flaws in the use of voting machines in a Michigan county. She resisted, telling the former president that she had discussed it with Michigan’s House Speaker, then Lee Chatfield (R), who gave a stark assessment: The report was "f‑‑‑ing nuts."
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2020-06-22): FACT CHECK: Trump Spreads Unfounded Claims About Voting By Mail President Trump has made it clear that he does not support allowing all registered voters access to mail ballots this fall, even during a pandemic. But he keeps changing his story about why he's opposed. Among his past claims, the president has said ballots would be stolen out of mailboxes, despite very little evidence of such fraud over the past 20 years. Trump has also said universal access to mail-in voting would boost Democrats and prevent Republicans from winning future elections, despite studies and real-life election results contradicting that theory.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2024-10-03): WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith has provided a road map for how prosecutors hope to prove their case charging former President Donald Trump with an illegal scheme to overturn his 2020 election loss — if it ever gets to trial. [...] "Working with a team of private co-conspirators, the defendant acted as a candidate when he pursued multiple criminal means to disrupt, through fraud and deceit, the government function by which votes are collected and counted—a function in which the defendant, as President, had no official role." [...] It’s unclear, though, what impact it will have on voters, given the wealth of detail about the 2020 campaign that has already been released as well as Trump’s multiple indictments. In polling, concerns about protecting democracy have typically lagged behind concerns about issues like the economy and inflation.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2024-10-03): WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump laid the groundwork to try to overturn the 2020 election even before he lost, knowingly pushed false claims of voter fraud and "resorted to crimes" in his failed bid to cling to power, according to a court filing unsealed Wednesday that offers new evidence from the landmark criminal case against the former president. [...] "So what?" the filing quotes Trump as telling an aide after being advised that his vice president, Mike Pence, had been rushed to a secure location after a crowd of violent Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to try to prevent the counting of electoral votes. [...] Immediately after the election, prosecutors say, his advisers sought to sow chaos in the counting of votes. In one instance, a campaign employee described as a Trump co-conspirator was told that results favoring Democrat Joe Biden at a Michigan polling center appeared accurate. The person is alleged to have replied: "find a reason it isnt" and "give me options to file litigation."
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2024-10-03): Washington — U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has made public a key filing from special counsel Jack Smith that includes evidence compiled in his investigation into former President Donald Trump's alleged efforts to subvert the transfer of presidential power after the 2020 election. [...] The narrative begins in the weeks before the 2020 presidential election, when prosecutors said Trump was briefed on the likelihood that many Democratic voters would cast their ballots by mail and have their votes counted after Election Day. Investigators alleged Trump told his advisers that he would "simply declare victory before all the ballots were counted and any winner was projected." [...] Notably, investigators revealed Trump and his allies — including Giuliani — allegedly attempted to "exploit the violence and chaos at the Capitol" in a bid to delay the election certification further by calling senators and leaving voicemails asking that they object to the states.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2024-10-04): Trump and the federal election case against him: Key passages from prosecutors’ latest court filing [...] Prosecutors say they will introduce evidence that shows Trump and his allies "made up figures from whole cloth" about election fraud, detailing how they repeatedly changed their baseless claims on the numbers of noncitizens voting in Arizona. [...] When Pence refused on Dec. 28 to support the various legal cases being pursued by Trump and his close allies in Congress, the filing states that Trump told his vice president that "hundreds of thousands" of people "are gonna hate your guts" and "people are gonna think you’re stupid." He added, "You’re too honest."
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2024-09-24): A panel of three judges – all appointees of former President Donald Trump – on the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals also had tough questions at a Tuesday hearing for those defending Mississippi’s policy, the target of a GOP lawsuit, of accepting properly-postmarked mail ballots that are received by election officials within five days after an election. [...] Donald Trump has not let go of his 2020 rhetoric railing against mail voting – insisting at times that elections should be "one-day voting" by "paper ballots" – even as he and the Republican party have at other times this cycle encouraged their voters to cast ballots early, including by mail. [...] However, in other states, ending the acceptance of late-arriving ballots could have a bigger impact. Washington state, which conducts its entire election by mail, more than 400,000 ballots that were counted in the 2022 midterms arrived after Election Day.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2024-09-20): Trump most recently floated possible legal action as he attacked mail-in voting. As many key battleground states prepare to send out mail-in ballots to voters for the November general election, former President Donald Trump has been escalating his false and unsubstantiated rhetoric on mail-in voting, most recently even floating possible court action in what could be a repeat of the onslaught of legal battles on election results that followed the 2020 presidential election. But the former president's messaging on mail-in voting has been anything but consistent with his allies at the Republican National Committee often cleaning up Trump's attacks on mail-in voting and urging voters to embrace different voting methods as the party attempts to expand voter turnout for November.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2024-10-02): From Trump’s fictitious stats about voter fraud to the FBI’s forensic analysis of Trump’s phone, prosecutors previewed how they would make their case at trial. Federal prosecutors have filed their most detailed compilation of evidence yet against former President Donald Trump in connection with the criminal case accusing him of conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images [...] After a Fox News host called out Trump-aligned lawyer Sidney Powell for making bizarre claims about Dominion Voting machines, Trump called her on speakerphone. On the Nov. 20, 2020 call, Trump muted his line and mocked her to two aides, calling her claims about the election "crazy" and making a reference to Star Trek, prosecutors contend. On another occasion, he called Powell "unhinged."
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2024-10-02): In a newly unsealed court filing, special counsel Jack Smith provides the most detailed picture yet of his criminal case against Donald Trump for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election and why the former president isn't immune from prosecution. [...] Prosecutors accuse Trump of spearheading a conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election and disenfranchise millions of American voters.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2024-10-03): ResumeHere & Now's Anthony Brooks speaks with Politico Magazine reporter and former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori about the new evidence special counsel Jack Smith lays out in a now-unsealed court filing in the federal election interference case against former President Donald Trump, including that Trump said 'so what' when told the vice president had been evacuated from the Capitol Building during the Jan. 6 riot.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2024-05-17): By — Nicholas Riccardi, Associated Press Nicholas Riccardi, Associated Press By — Margery A. Beck, Associated Press Margery A. Beck, Associated Press Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-changes-tone-on-mail-in-ballots-and-other-forms-of-early-voting Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Trump changes tone on mail-in ballots and other forms of early voting Politics May 17, 2024 5:40 PM EDT Marta Moehring voted the way she prefers in Nebraska’s Republican primary Tuesday — in person, at her west Omaha polling place. She didn’t even consider taking advantage of the state’s no-excuse mail-in ballot process. In fact, she would prefer to do away with mail-in voting altogether. She’s convinced fraudulent mailed ballots cost former President Donald Trump a second term in 2020. "I don’t trust it in general," Moehring, 62, said. "I don’t think they’re counted correctly." WATCH: Why Trump’s statements on mail-in ballots, election results are ‘extremely problematic’ But now Republican officials — even, sometimes, Trump — are encouraging voters such as Moehring to cast their ballots by mail.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2023-09-19): We have been tracking the president’s remarks about mail-in voting. In late July, we wrote a story — "The President’s Trumped-Up Claims of Voter Fraud" — recapping his numerous false, misleading and unsupported claims to date about mail-in ballots. At the time, Trump had suggested the 2020 election should be postponed, claiming mail-in voting this year will result in the "most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history." Since then, the president has ramped up his attacks on mail-in voting on a near-daily basis. His attacks come despite a U.S. intelligence bulletin issued to law enforcement agencies on Sept. 3 warning that Russia wants "to undermine public trust in the electoral process" by "amplifying criticisms of vote-by-mail," as first reported by ABC News. [...] Trump’s Absentee vs. Mail-In Ballot Spin, June 19: Trump continues to draw false distinctions between mail-in and absentee ballots, claiming the former are rife with voter fraud while the latter — which he has used as president — require a voter to go through "a very strict process. The equivalent of going to a voting machine, or maybe even sometimes better."
Claim: Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.” (Pennsylvania Values, 2024-06-21)
Evidence (2024-07-01): The Trump clips are authentic and were taken from remarks he made this past February and in 2020. The ad concludes with text: "Stand Strong with President Trump against mail in voting!" [...] Trump said that in response to a reporter’s question about his opposition to voting by mail. Trump also said, "If you're a senior citizen and if you're somebody that needs (mail-in voting), I'm all for it." [...] A liberal political action committee’s ad said Trump is "against mail in voting."