“Kamala Harris is going to significantly raise taxes … Kamala’s plan will raise taxes by nearly $2,600 per year.”
— Narrator of new Trump campaign ad, released Oct. 2
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Vice President Kamala Harris has pledged to not raise taxes on people making less than $400,000, about 98 percent of taxpayers, but a new Donald Trump campaign ad claims she would raise taxes on families by nearly $2,600 per year.
How is this possible? Only through sheer mendacity by the Trump campaign. We’re used to bad clip jobs and misleading citations, but this ad really takes the cake. Let’s go through the ad line by line.
“Kamala Harris is seeking to significantly raise taxes.” — New York Times, Aug. 22, 2024
This seems like a damning quote from a leading newspaper. So we looked up the article. Here the full paragraph, with the section in the ad in boldface.
“No one making less than $400,000 a year would see their taxes go up under the plan. Instead, Ms. Harris is seeking to significantly raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans and large corporations.”
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In other words, the ad selectively snips out that Harris would raise taxes on the wealthy — not people making less than $400,000.
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