Myth #1: The largest tax increase in history
Obamacare is…the largest tax increase in the history of the world.
-Rush Limbaugh, 06/28/2012
Actually, the largest tax increase in the United States over the last seventy years was during World War II. The revenue from the provisions of the health care law is one-tenth that size. It is also one-third less than the tax law President Ronald Reagan signed in 1982.
Read more in our new memo debunking the 12 biggest myths about the Affordable Care Act.
