September 21, 2008
Posted: 05:30 PM ET
From CNN's Josh Levs
Did Obama vote to raise taxes more than 90 times?
The statement: "He said he won't raise taxes for most people, but he's voted 94 times in his short Senate career for tax increases and against tax cuts." Check out the facts after the jump!
Factcheck.org, a non-partisan project of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center, pieced through records to determine just what these 94 votes were. Key findings: -23 were against proposed tax cuts Annenberg says a close look at the record reveals that Obama has "voted consistently to restore higher tax rates on upper-income taxpayers but not on middle- or low-income workers." Verdict: Filed under: Fact Check |
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