Fiscal FactCheck
Latest
-
GDP Did Not Just Increase 33%
Read moreToday's advanced third quarter GDP estimates from the Bureau of Economic Analysis are being reported as showing 33 percent economic growth. This...
-
Factchecking Tax Claims in the 2020 Election
Read moreIn recent days, President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden have made several competing claims about the other's tax agenda. We summarize and...
-
Would Joe Biden Significantly Raise Taxes on Middle Class Americans?
Read moreDuring the 2020 Republican National Convention, several speakers claimed that Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden would...
-
Did GDP Fall by One-Third?
Read moreIn their reporting on the Bureau of Economic Analysis's (BEA) second quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) report, several news outlets have used the...
-
Have We Spent Trillions on Wars?
Read morePresidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) claimed at the presidential debate last week that the wars in the Middle East "have cost us...
-
Factchecking and Live-Tweeting the Democratic Presidential Primary Debates
Read moreTonight's Democratic presidential primary debate marks the fifth round of debates of the 2020 campaign and will surely touch on fiscal issues. Through...
-
Could Medicare for All be Financed Entirely by Cutting Defense Spending?
Read moreLast week, The New York Times published an op-ed entitled “We Don’t Need to Raise Taxes to Have ‘Medicare for All’ .” In it, Lindsay Koshgarian...
-
Would Medicare for All Require a Middle-Class Tax Hike?
Read moreWith several 2020 presidential candidates endorsing a move to single-payer health care ( Medicare for All), there is an ongoing debate over whether...
-
Fact Checking Medicare for All Claims from the Fourth Democratic Primary Debate
Read moreDuring the fourth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential election cycle, former Vice President Joe Biden and South Bend, Indiana Mayor...
-
Is Spending, Not Tax Cuts, Driving the Deficit?
Read moreThe House Ways and Means Committee minority recently published a blog post claiming that "spending, not tax cuts, [is] driving national deficits." It...
-
Was a "No" Vote on the Budget Deal a Vote for "More Spending"?
Read moreIn support of the $1.7 trillion Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019 (BBA19), Senator David Perdue (R-GA) gave a floor speech and penned an op-ed arguing...
-
Are There $1.6 Trillion in Tax Loopholes?
Read moreFormer Vice President and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden told the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Convention on June 28 that the tax code contains $1.6...