Biden falsely claims that Trump tax cuts went mainly to the rich

 Breitbart:

CLAIM: At his first press conference since taking office, President Joe Biden claimed that 83 percent of Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cut went to the top 1 one percent of earners.

Verdict: False.

The beneficiaries of the 2017 tax reforms were not confined to the top earners. In fact, the overwhelming majority of American taxpayers received a tax cut through the Trump Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Eighty-two percent of American middle-class households received a tax cut and received an average tax cut of $1,260. Ninety percent of Americans saw an increase in take-home pay. The tax cuts raised wage growth by 3.3 percent and helped foster historic lows in unemployment.

The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimated in 2018 that the top 1 percent would get 20.5 percent of the tax cuts. The top twenty percent would get 65.3 percent. Higher-income people pay most of the income tax so cuts to income taxes tend to benefit them. The top twenty percent of households, for example, earn 53 percent of pre-tax income and pay 68 percent of all income taxes, according to the Peter Peterson Institute.

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Biden is intellectually challenged at best.  He either does not comprehend how the tax cuts worked or he is lying.  Biden supports government greed over all taxpayers.

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