A Republican senator who is facing blowback from both sides after releasing his “11 point plan” to “rescue America” battled with a Fox News host over the weekend over whether proposed income tax hikes were a “Democratic talking point”.
Sen Rick Scott released the policy proposal in late February; the plan calls for shrinking the federal workforce by one quarter and selling government assets while also hitting on a number of other GOP talking points from critical race theory to voting rights legislation, which it falsely refers to as “institutionalizing dishonesty and fraud” in election systems and generally as an attempt to “rig elections”, playing on Donald Trump’s false claims regarding the 2020 election.
Mr Scott’s plan also plainly calls for income taxes to be hiked on millions of Americans. On a website launched by his office to promote the plan, it reads: “All Americans should pay some income tax to have skin in the game, even if a small amount. Currently over half of Americans pay no income tax.”
That quote in particular was highlighted by Fox News’s John Roberts, temporary host of Fox News Sunday, during an interview with the Florida senator over the weekend.
“That would raise taxes on over half of Americans and potentially sunset programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security,” Mr Roberts told the senator, referring to another part of the plan that says that any federal program would “sunset”, or end, in half a decade unless Congress acts to renew the...
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