Fact-Checkers: Democrats Just Keep Lying Hysterically About Tax Reform

This reality, and the resulting assignment of an avalanche of 'Pinocchios,' comes as no surprise to our readers -- who've been kept abreast of Democrats' never-ending onslaughtof falsehoods, misinformation, fear-mongeringand distortions about the GOP's tax reform bill. Fact-checkers have been working overtime to correct the record in an exhausting game of anti-lie whack-a-mole, with the Washington Post's team dishing out 11 Pinocchios to three top Democrats on the ridiculous "private jet tax break" fairly tale alone. This nonsense is still floating around, promoted by the DNC chairman:

Actually, no; not seriously. A Senate Democrat promulgated the same lie, adding "you can't make this stuff up." Actually, you can; he just did. In case you missed it, here is the reality, as relayed by the office of the liberal Democrat who's pushed for this idea:

Did you hear the one about the “private jet deduction” in Senate Republicans’ tax bill? There’s less to it than that—and it’s backed by one of the most liberal Democrats in the Senate. The provision attempts to ensure an excise tax for commercial airline flights isn’t imposed on private flights operated through management companies...“This provision in no way cuts taxes for private jet owners,” said Jennifer Donohue, a spokeswoman for [Sen. Sherrod] Brown (D-OH). “It simply clarifies what the law already says—that service companies made up of mechanics and service workers don’t pay ticket taxes, because they don’t sell tickets.” Mr. Brown’s home-state colleague, Republican Rob Portman, wrote the amendment that got the provision into the Senate bill. “This bipartisan proposal clarifies the intent of the law and stops a specific IRS abuse when the agency chose to ignore the law,” said Kevin Smith, a spokesman for Mr. Portman.

WaPo's fact-checkers slapped Sen. Kamala Harris with 'Three Pinocchios' for regurgitating this story, adding a fourth pinocchio for Perez and Merkley over their additional claim that the nonexistent "tax break" was being financed by slashing healthcare and education funding. We've already tackled some of the unhinged hyperbole coming from top Democrats and liberals about a bill that reforms the tax system and cuts taxes for the vast majority of Americans. It's an world-ending "armageddon" that will kill kill kill, they say (narrator: it's not, and it won't). Paul Ryan's office has put out a blog post rounding up some of the most risible examples of Democrats' rhetorical excesses (including references to neo-Nazi's and rape), and CATO's Michael Tanner delves deeper into the absurdity. He reminds us that the US federal government does not have a revenue or taxation problem. It has a spending problem:

Fact-Checkers: Democrats Just Keep Lying Hysterically About Tax Reform