John Hood writes today about the often repeated claim by North Carolina’s Leftists that the state’s historic tax reform resulted in a tax hike for the vast majority of North Carolinians.

Uh, no. And now it’s the Washington Post that has called out the Left for this ridiculous talking point.

How many times have you heard the claim that the 2013 tax reform bill enacted by the General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Pat McCrory will result in a tax increase for 80 percent of North Carolinians? The claim was ubiquitous during and after the tax-reform debate last year. Now that N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis is the Republican nominee against U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, the claim is making the rounds again. But it was false in 2013 and remains false today. In fact, the term “false” is a generous one. For months, I have labeled the claim “mathematically impossible,” citing a 2013 analysis by the legislature’s nonpartisan fiscal analysts and a 2014 analysis published by JLF. Now The Washington Post, hardly a creature of the vast right-wing conspiracy, has come up with another appropriate description of the “80 percent got a tax hike” claim: absurd. Glenn Kessler, the Post’s fact-checker, looked into the claim because it was included in a post-primary ad against Tillis by the Senate Majority PAC, an independent-expenditure group allied with Democrats. While informed observers in North Carolina have long recognized the absurdity of the 80 percent claim, Kessler did North Carolinians a great service by clarifying its source: strange methodology from a North Carolina Justice Center contractor, combined with misleading rhetoric and sloppy reporting.

For more details, keep reading John’s column. And fasten your seats. Despite knowing this claim is untrue, you can expect North Carolina’s Left to keep saying this — along with other equally false allegations against fiscal conservatives, some of which are dripping with hateful vitriol.