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Conservatives really should stop listening to Rush Limbaugh. It's bad for them.
Largest tax increase?
Finally, the health care law is not the largest tax increase in history. We looked into this topic in detail when we fact-checked Rush Limbaughs statement that the health care law is "the largest tax increase in the history of the world."
That detailed analysis can be found here, but the bottom line is this:
Depending on your rounding, tax increases resulting from the health care law are about the size of tax increases proposed and passed in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter, in 1990 by President George H.W. Bush and in 1993 by President Bill Clinton.
The health care laws tax increases are smaller than tax increases signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1982 and a temporary tax signed into law in 1968 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. And they are significantly smaller than two tax increases passed during World War II and a tax increase passed in 1961.
Its true that the tax increases in the health care legislation do reverse a trend of federal tax cuts and represent the first significant tax increases since 1993.
But they are not the largest in the history of the United States.
Conservatives really should stop listening to Rush Limbaugh. It's bad for them.