Haley’s Ad Misleads About Trump’s Proposed Tariffs
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As former President Donald Trump campaigns on the exaggerated claim to being the largest tax cutter in U.S. history, the latest ad from Nikki Haley’s campaign misleadingly claims Trump now favors “a 10% across the board tax increase.”
The ad refers to a proposal Trump that floated in an interview last August to impose a 10% tariff on all imported goods. Economists have warned that most of the cost of those tariffs would ultimately fall on American consumers of foreign products.
But without the qualifier that Trump is proposing a “10% across the board tax increase” (emphasis is ours), many viewers might assume the ad meant that Trump was proposing to raise all Americans’ federal taxes by 10%. That’s not what Trump
