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1 October
9:13 am

you're gonna make across the board tax cuts — you're gonna end up giving the wealthiest Californians billionaires a forty percent tax cut, the biggest in California history

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Xavier Becerra, at California Governor General Election Debate (CNN)

9:13 am
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Why we checked itBecerra claims the opponent's tax plan would give billionaires a 40% tax rate cut and that this would be the biggest in California history — a specific, verifiable assertion about a rival's policy proposal
What we foundThe ~40% figure is mathematically derivable from the top marginal rate reduction (13.3% to 8%), but presenting it as a billionaires-only '40% tax cut' overstates the specificity, and the 'biggest in California history' superlative is unverified by any independent source.
CorrectedCorrection: the transcribed wording was corrected on 2026-10-01 and the claim re-checked. Transcription error: 'tax cut' transcribed as 'tax rate'; the verdict rejected a 40% rate that was never claimed. Text corrected, verdict cleared for re-check.
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