Claim: " found that Romney would raise taxes on the average middle class family by $2,000 to pay for $5 trillion in tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires."
Fact-check: Mitt Romney's tax cut proposal blasted by New Jersey Democrats for using $2,000 middle-class tax hike to cover $5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Bill Wichert
Date published: 2012-08-12T00:00:00