Warnock’s False Ad on Taxes
A TV ad from Democrat Raphael Warnock falsely says Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler “supports raising taxes on Georgia’s middle class.” That’s a reference to the 2017 Republican tax law that temporarily cut individual income taxes, but Loeffler supports making permanent provisions that are set to expire after 2025.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, for which Loeffler also has voiced support, cut taxes on average initially, but it will raise them after 2025 for most taxpayers, unless the law’s provisions are extended.
Loeffler says on her campaign website that she wants to: “Make the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s tax cuts for working and middle class families permanent.”
Warnock and Loeffler are facing off in one of two runoff elections in Georgia that will decide which political party has control of the U.S. Senate. Loeffler, a wealthy businesswoman, was appointed to her seat after Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson retired in December 2019 for health reasons. The winner of the upcoming Jan. 5 election will serve the last two years of Isakson’s six-year term.
Loeffler wasn’t able to vote on the , since she took office in January 2020, but she has voiced support for the law. When Republicans passed it in December 2017, they they expected a future Congress to extend those tax cuts, rather than allowing taxes for many to increase.
