Fact check: Meme misleads on tax rate for $15 minimum wage
A meme claims that if Congress raises the minimum wage to $15 an hour, President Biden will try to tax those full-time workers at 52%. This is false.
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A meme claims that if Congress raises the minimum wage to $15 an hour, President Biden will try to tax those full-time workers at 52%. This is false.
Font Size David Bozell, the son of MRC founder and president Brent Bozell, called me the other day to bring my attention to a USA Today“fact check” that blocks a meme on the Facebook page of their group For America. It’s a humorous CNN-mocking meme of only 15 words: 2016 Media: Russia stole the election 2020 Media: Our elections are literally impossible to steal. For America’s added Facebook message was simple: “The media are a virus.” Any conservative critic of CNN gets the joke. For years, journalists aerobically implied that Donald Trump was involved in a conspir...