Fox Business used a graphic with a badly distorted scale to exaggerate the effect that the expiration of the Bush tax cuts would have on the rich.
Here's how Fox Business' Cavuto presented a return to the Clinton-era tax rate of 39.6 percent on the top income bracket, from the Bush-era rate of 35 percent:
![](https://www.mediamatters.org/static/images/item/fbn-cavuto-20120731-bushexpire.jpg)
Here's what that increase of 4.6 percentage points looks like on a more realistic scale:
![](https://www.mediamatters.org/static/images/item/20120731-mytaxhike.jpg)
Fox has a lot of trouble making charts that are accurate and fair, having aired misleading graphics on gas taxes and statistics about unemployment, among other subjects.