Repubs (O'Reilly) caught lying about taxes by Media Matters.

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This issue is one of the most important today. Here's a good summary of how desperate Republicans are lying about it in effort to stop time from moving forward.


FOX News Channel host Bill O'Reilly labeled as "socialist" a proposal to reform the New Jersey property tax system and attempted to discredit it by misrepresenting how the current system works. On the May 20 edition of O'Reilly's nationally syndicated radio program, The Radio Factor With Bill O'Reilly, O'Reilly spoke disparagingly of a proposal by New Jersey Governor James McGreevey to increase state income taxes on households earning over $500,000 and use the money to give property tax rebates to 2 million low-income, middle-income, and elderly residents. Arguing against the proposal, O'Reilly misleadingly claimed that upper-income New Jerseyans already pay a larger percentage of their income than lower-income residents.

O'Reilly criticized the tax proposal, calling it quasi-socialist, communism, and socialism and labeling it a "deviation" from the wishes of the Founding Fathers -- and then he added that Democrats favor the proposal:


O'REILLY: All right, so it's income redistribution. It's basically slapping more tax -- and remember, if you were earning $500,000 or more, you're paying your property tax already. You're paying a federal income tax. You're paying a state income tax. You're paying all the other taxes that come along.

Now, is this good? Is this what we should be doing here in America? Now, remember -- remember how the country was founded. So this is a deviation, because the Founding Fathers didn't want any federal income tax at all. That only happened around the turn of the 20th century. And they said OK, leave it to the -- leave it to the locals to tax and take what they need.

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