3 fact checkers agree: Obamacare does not raise taxes on the middle class

 

A Facebook friend of mine sent me an posting claiming  Obamacare would raised taxes on  the middle class. One fact checker called that “pants on fire”, another agreed with the White House that it does not; the other looks at all of Obama’s tax policies and also claims they do not.   All major  three fact checkers agree:  such claims are not true.

 I went to the Washington Post fact checker, who pointed out that the tax credits and subsidies to the middle class far exceeded taxes. Of course, if you define the middle class as those making over $250,000, you might have a point. Glenn Kessler's conclusion:
"The health law, if it works as the nonpartisan government analysts expect, will provide more tax relief than tax burden for middle-income Americans. The White House chief of staff earns a rare Geppetto Checkmark (true) for his remarks on “This Week.”  (Geppetto means the claim was true)
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Claims that Obamacare is the largest tax hikes in history gets the biggest lie Pants on Fire from fact checker at politifact, www.politifact.com "The ad calls the health care law "the largest tax increase in history on the middle class." Actually, the law is not the largest tax increase in history, and most of its taxes fall on the wealthy and the health care industry.

Even if all of the taxes in the health care law fell on the middle class -- which they don’t -- the statement still wouldn’t be accurate.

For flagrant disregard of the facts, we rate this statement Pants on Fire!"

And more from the Annenberg Public Policy Center, FactCheck.org. This makes 3 major fact checkers in concurrence that Obamacare does not raise taxes on the middle class, though this particular fact checker discusses a much broader question.

"A Bogus Tax Attack Against Obama

The latest multimillion-dollar attack ad from Crossroads GPS claims President Obama broke a promise to not increase taxes for families making less than $250,000 a year. That’s almost entirely false.

Claims that Obamacare is the largest tax hikes in history gets the biggest lie Pants on Fire from fact checker at politifact, www.politifact.com "The ad calls the health care law "the largest tax increase in history on the middle class." Actually, the law is not the largest tax increase in history, and most of its taxes fall on the wealthy and the health care industry.

Even if all of the taxes in the health care law fell on the middle class -- which they don’t -- the statement still wouldn’t be accurate."