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7 October
6:24 pm

Sixty percent of the relief from that bill was targeted and taken advantage of by the middle class.

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Ashley Hinson, at Iowa U.S. Senate General Election Debate

6:24 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific percentage claim about who benefited from the tax bill — verifiable against distributional analysis of the legislation.
What we foundThe claim that 60 percent of the bill's relief was targeted to and taken advantage of by the middle class is disputed by independent analyses, which find that the largest share of total dollar benefits flows to higher-income households.
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