If you are watching the Trump town hall and saw the ad about DeSantis backing a 23% sales tax hike, that’s misleading. While in Congress, DeSantis was one of many GOP cosponsors of a bill to replace income taxes, etc with national sales tax.
"In Congress Ron DeSantis pushed a 23% national sales tax where the middle class pays more," said an ad byThe ad said DeSantis’ plan would increase taxes on nearly all U.S. families, while"President Trump cut taxes a lot, lowering tax rates for everyone."We fact-checked a similar and slightly moreThe current attack repeats the playbook by leading with the high sales tax number and leaving out a key offset: the"fair tax" would eliminate other federal taxes.
DeSantis has not mentioned the idea in years. While this ad aims to draw a line between Trump and DeSantis, a political action committee supporting DeSantis fired back with aIn 2015, Trump repeatedly floated the idea but didn’t commit to it."Now you could go to the fair tax, the flat tax; there's a lot of things you could go to," Trump said on MSNBC.
Other times, Trump was more critical of the idea. In a 2015 Republican presidential debate when asked about a flat tax, Trump said if someone makes $200 million a year, that person pays"very little, relatively, to somebody that's making $50,000 a year." Although the finger-pointing draws a lot of attention, in truth, neither politician is looking to hike taxes.The idea behind the Fair Tax Act is to introduce a 23% federal sales tax that would replace other federal taxes. The bill would eliminate income, estate, payroll and gift taxes, as well as the Internal Revenue Service.
The Fair Tax Act has been introduced in Congress repeatedly since 1999, earning support from some prominent Republicans along the way, including former Vice President
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