New Blunt Ad Falsely Claims That Carnahan Supports "The Largest Tax Increase In History"

A new ad from the Roy Blunt for Senate campaign claims that Robin Carnahan supports "the largest income tax increase in history."

This is obviously false.  Not only does it misstate Carnahan's position on the Bush tax cuts, it completely mischaracterizes Barack Obama's proposal for extending the tax cuts.  Indeed, Politifact.com looked at this same claim when Sarah Palin made it a few weeks ago, and rated it "Pants on Fire!"

[Letting all the tax cuts expire isn't the plan the Democrats are proposing..

Palin said, "Democrats are poised now to cause this largest tax increase in U.S. history." She was asked about tax cuts for the top 2 percent. Either Palin is confused about the revenue numbers involved with extending the tax cuts, or she's willfully distorting the Democratic plans. We'll let you be the judge of that. Regardless, Wallace was very specific about asking her about tax increases for the top 2 percent. And that does not represent the largest tax increase in history. The unlikely outcome that she seems to be talking about -- that all of the Bush tax cuts will be repealed -- wouldn't be the largest tax increase in history either. Palin read the number on her hand correctly, but that's about all she got right. So we rate her statement Pants on Fire.