ICYMI: Begich Caught Red-Handed in Lies on Big, Ugly Bill

CNN called out how Begich’s tax scam creates massive threats to Alaska’s rural hospitals, tax breaks that will “[squeeze] the most vulnerable to give to the rich” and fact checked his certifiably false claim that if the House “didn’t pass this bill the average American would see a 68% tax increase.”

WATCH

• BROWN: “Critics argue that [this bill goes] beyond that… it’s beyond the waste in the program…there’s not going to be as much funding for rural hospitals.. You’re hearing from hospitals concerned that they’re going to have to shut down because of this, that the red tape, the more paperwork they’re going to have to fill out, that they’re going to slip through the cracks of the Medicaid system.
• They argue that this is taking from the poor, squeezing from the most vulnerable to give to the rich. There’s an analysis done… that found that the top .1% of earners in the United States, the average annual income gain would amount to more than $290,000. When you consider that, how can you argue that this legislation really benefits working class Americans rather than the wealthiest of the wealthy?”
• BEGICH: “If we didn’t pass this bill the average American would see a 68% tax increase.”
• BROWN: “I’m not sure that’s actually accurate.My producer can tell me in my ear — I don’t think it’s a 68% increase…But, I don’t think that’s right. And I just want to be clear: the number that I mentioned was from the Penn Wharton budget model that uncovered that statistic. It’s a nonpartisan entity that conducts these analyses. I just want to be transparent with our viewers.”

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