October 4, 2012
The Lie: Mitt Romney Says He Doesn’t Have a $5 Trillion Tax Cut
THE LIE – During the first presidential debate of the 2012 election, Republican challenger Mitt Romney said, “I don’t have a five trillion dollar tax cut. I don’t have a tax cut of the scale that you’re [President Obama] talking about. My view is that we ought to provide tax relief to people in the middle class.”