claim: "we're the highest taxed nation in the world."
author: donald trump
evidence_1: oct 10, 2017 ... on tuesday, president donald trump again repeated his claim that u.s. citizens  pay an unfairly high tax burden. "we're the highest taxed nation in the world," he  said, according to npr white house reporter scott horsley. "people want to see  massive tax cuts." ...
evidence_2: oct 12, 2017 ... president trump on wednesday told fox's sean hannity, "we are the highest  taxed nation in the world." at this point, trump has publicly made this claim at  least 20 times. and it's still not true. in fact, here are just a few ways the united  states trails other countries in terms of taxation. total revenue collected.
evidence_3: sep 6, 2017 ... "the people of this country want tax cuts," he said. "they want lower taxes; we're  the highest taxed nation in the world." the assertion echoed a twitter message  last month, repeating a false claim trump made during the presidential election  campaign. "we are the highest taxed nation in the world — that ...
evidence_4: oct 10, 2017 ... "that's what he's talking about. we are the highest corporate taxed country in the  developed economies across the globe." advertisement. but while a reporter  pushed back by arguing that trump's repeated statements aren't accurate  because they're too broad, sanders responded that "it seems pretty ...
evidence_5: sep 6, 2017 ... on tuesday, president donald trump once again claimed that the us is the " highest taxed" nation in the world. "i will say that we're the highest-taxed nation in  the world. people want to see massive tax cuts. i'm giving the largest tax cuts in  the history of this country. in addition to that, there will be reform," ...