Lie December 5, 2017 · Remarks · Taxes

“We're the highest-taxed industrialized country in the world. Of the major countries, we're the highest taxed, period.”

Said
December 5, 2017
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Taxes
Repeated
34 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 1752)

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