House Republicans released their tax reform bill Thursday morning, turning President Trump's original tax structure plan into legislative reality.
Here are some of the details:
-401k plans remain untouched
-$1200 deduction in taxes per average family
-Increases the child tax credit
-Reduces the cap on mortgage interest deduction to
$500,000, down from $1,000,000
-First $12,000 earned is tax free per individual
-First $24,000 earned by a couple is tax free
-Property tax reduction up to $10,000
-Corporate tax rate will be slashed to 20 percent
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WaPo Fact Checks Senate Dems' Take on GOP Tax Plan
By Cortney O'Brien
Senate Democrats have
been telling their constituents that the GOP tax reform plan will increase
taxes on most middle class families.
That’s when the Washington
Post chimed in to say hold up, wait a minute. In their fact check, they found that the Democrats were playing “a
bad game of telephone.”
It all started when the
Democratic Policy and Communications Committee released a report claiming the
average tax increase on families nationwide earning up to $86,100 would be
$794.
Top Democrats like Sen.
Kamala Harris (CA) and Bob Casey (PA) ran with the numbers and posted them on
their Twitter pages.
“On average, middle
class families earning less than $86,000 would see a tax increase under the
Republican “tax reform” plan,” Harris wrote (since deleted, it seems.)
The average tax increase on families nationwide earning
up to $86,100 would be $794.00
— Senator Bob Casey (@SenBobCasey) October
24, 2017
As the WaPo
explains, this talking point was swiped from a document first released from the
Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee. In the original report, the
committee explains that 8 million households that earn up to $86,100 will see a
$794 tax increase. That “nuance was lost” once it got into the hands of the
Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, who made it sound as if the tax
increase would affect all working-class families.
The misconstrued talking
point earns the Democrats Four Pinocchios.
"In their haste to condemn the GOP tax plan,
Democrats have spread far and wide the false claim that families making less
than $86,100 on average will face a hefty tax hike. Actually, it’s the opposite.
Most families in that income range would get a tax cut. Any Democrat who spread
this claim should delete their tweets and make clear they were in error."
The WaPo went a
step further, noting a few positives of the GOP tax reform agenda.
Meanwhile, more than 97 million (80 percent) will receive
a tax cut. Doing the math the same way the JEC staff did, we come up with an
average tax cut of about $450 for those 97 million households.
