Donald Trump is set to roll out his well-worn and false line that the United States is among the “highest-taxed nations in the world” on Thursday when he accepts the Republican presidential nomination.
“America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world,” Trump will say, according to his prepared remarks.
That false claim will come amid criticisms that Democrat Hillary Clinton plans to raise tax rates and that the real estate mogul is proposing the “largest tax reduction” of the presidential candidates that ran this year, according to the prepared remarks.
Politifact, the non-partisan fact-checking service, has determined that the United State’s tax rate would rank about 64th among 189 countries.
Trump is either insane or knows that there is a sucker born every minute…or both.
This article implies Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about. What’s next? Palin is not the greatest orator of all time, also?
He also knows that most of the media will not fact-check his statement on things like “the United States is among the “highest-taxed nations in the world””. Not when they can lazily pull the false equivalency card whenever the need to avoid pinning Trump down on a fact. He makes so many blatant lies that either the media makes no effort to keep up with them or makes no effort to confront them because…GOP. Whereas they will be going over every word Clinton says since, ironically, they won’t be distracted by the fiasco that is the GOP Convention. And let’s not forget that the Blitzers, Todds, and Mitchell-Greenspans of the media world are all one-percenters. They are among the few who would likely benefit from a Trump presidency.
" Where’s your tax returns, Trump?"
Yes! Another classic example of an issue the media has completely dropped in favor of Trump. Just like they dropped the racist birtherism.
Fact checkers just found out they were going to have to go through that mendacious cesspool of Trump word salad he threw up tonight:
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