Posted: 07/30/10 00:55
by Dave Mindeman
Our soon to be ex-governor Tim Pawlenty makes a lot of statements that have a lot of tax hyperbole. Well, Politifact decided to examine the quote below and check it out for "truthiness":
"I don't think the argument can be credibly made that the United States of America is undertaxed compared to our competitors."
Tim Pawlenty, Monday, July 26th, 2010.
Verdict?
In an opinion column published the following day, Washington Post reporter Ruth Marcus took aim at Pawlenty's remark.
"Actually," Marcus wrote, "the United States is on the low end in terms of the overall tax burden -- 28 percent of gross domestic product in 2007, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, compared with an average of 36 percent in the 30 OECD countries. Only South Korea, Mexico and Turkey were lower."
Frankly, I have a hard time believing anything that the man says anymore, regarding taxes. When he does tax something, like cigarettes, he calls it a fee. Property taxes don't seem to exist to him. And Minnesota is always a high tax state when he talks about Democrats and a fair taxed state when discussing his own record.
I think we have a credibility gap here.
