🧩 BND Motif Index · M125
Tax-raiser
The opponent is a tax-raiser who will take more of your money.
🎭 Archetypes🗂️ Politician Archetypes
- 9claims filed under it
- 1center show it came up on
- 3right shows it came up on
- 2fact-checkers
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 It's the economy, stupid
↔️ answers and mirrors:
- 🧩 Rich should pay their fair share Tax-raiser answers Rich should pay their fair share
⏱️ answered 16 days after this was first told here (2026-09-17 → 2026-10-03)
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 1
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Troy Jackson wants to raise Social Security taxes and has voted to increase taxes on gasoline and groceries.” 🔎 FactCheck.org
- 2026-10-24 “In a campaign ad, U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody claims that her opponent, Angie Nixon, backed a $4 trillion tax hike on everyone in a diner, including a server and older adults.” 🔎 PolitiFact
- 2026-10-22 “Governor Gavin Newsom opposes a billionaire's tax because it could hurt California's budget.”
🎙️ 1A (WAMU/NPR) 🎙️ Morning Wire - 2026-10-22 “Democrats blaming the debt on tax breaks for billionaires really means they haven't stolen enough money.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show - 2026-10-20 “Kathy Hochul is the worst governor in America because she has made New York the highest taxed state.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-08 “Democrats are opposing popular tax cuts for tips, overtime, and Social Security that were part of Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” 🔎 FactCheck.org
- 2026-10-06 “Democrats intend to raise taxes on citizens under the guise of lowering costs.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show - 2026-10-01 “Chris Pappas voted to raise taxes 68 times.” 🔎 PolitiFact
- 2026-09-17 “Rob Sand wants to raise Iowans’ taxes by $7,500 a year.” 🔎 PolitiFact
M125 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-22 · what this is · how the index works