Fact-check: “the GOP constantly shifting the burden of society from the wealthy to the poor, right? Since Reagan the GOP have been the party for and by the wealthy.”
Verdict: Partly True (45% confidence)
The documented record shows that major GOP tax legislation since Reagan — the 1981 ERTA, the 2001/2003 Bush cuts, and the 2017 TCJA — did deliver the largest absolute benefits to top earners and cut top marginal rates substantially, and that top-400 incomes roughly tripled while their effective tax burden dropped. But the claim that this 'constantly' shifted costs 'to the poor' overstates a more mixed picture: the 1986 Tax Reform Act and Reagan-era policies also removed many low-income filers f…
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