WaPo fact-checker slams Kamala Harris on tax hike tweet: ‘Nonsensical and misleading’
A tweet by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) referring to the GOP tax cuts signed into law by President Trump as “a middle-class tax hike” was slammed by a Washington Post fact-checker as “nonsensical and misleading.”
The Wednesday posting by the fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, was addressing a comment this week by Harris, a 2020 presidential candidate, about the Republican tax cuts signed into law in late 2017.
“The average tax refund is down about $170 compared to last year. Let’s call the President’s tax cut what it is: a middle-class tax hike to line the pockets of already wealthy corporations and the 1 percent,” Harris wrote in a tweet to her 2.34 million followers.
The average tax refund is down about $170 compared to last year. Let’s call the President’s tax cut what it is: a middle-class tax hike to line the pockets of already wealthy corporations and the 1%.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) February 11, 2019
Kessler, however, awarded Harris four “Pinocchios,” the maximum rating he assigns to comments he considers as “whoppers”
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