The misleading claim that Biden would raise taxes $28,000 per household

6/15/21
 
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from The Washington Post,
6/15/21:

For taxes, the document says that Biden’s budget “hikes taxes by $3.6 trillion over 10 yrs., $28,800 per house,” while the RSC budget “cuts $1.94 trillion taxes, $15,500 per household.” The document also claims that Biden’s budget “hikes taxes on every income group.”

It’s pretty simple-minded math. The RSC took the nation’s 120 million households and divided all of these numbers by that figure. That results in an “average” that is basically meaningless and easily misunderstood.

“The purpose of us including the figure isn’t to show how much each household will actually see in tax increases. It’s simply a way to help communicate the scale of the taxation,” said Mitchell Hailstone, an RSC spokesman. “It wasn’t meant to mislead.”

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