Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, appears to have a fraught relationship with the truth, as he has a history of making dishonest claims about various aspects of his personal background story.

On Tuesday, Walz seemingly told two separate and provable lies in the same statement while dodging an actual answer to a question from a reporter about American families struggling to deal with price inflation, according to Breitbart.

The governor first dishonestly asserted that Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee who is a multi-millionaire, was part of the "middle class," and then falsely accused former President Donald Trump of seeking to impose a "national sales tax" on the American people.

Walz dodges a question on dealing with price inflation

While campaigning in Georgia on Tuesday, Gov. Walz took a break to briefly field a series of viewer-submitted questions from local WMAZ news anchor Frank Malloy, who first raised the issue of price inflation and asked, "What do you tell people who wake up each morning wondering how am I gonna get by financially?"

"I tell them Kamala Harris and I know something about it, being middle-class folks," Walz replied. "Our family sit at the table trying to pay the bill. We know coming out of the COVID pandemic with prices where they were, that people need to see some relief."

Multi-millionaire Harris' plan would likely increase costs, and she is not "middle class"

As Breitbart noted, none of Gov. Walz's responses had anything to do with reducing the burden of price inflation on American families, which can no longer be attributed to the COVID pandemic, as Democrats continue to try to do.

Furthermore, it could be argued that VP Harris' "plan" to subsidize home ownership and artificially cap prices of certain prescription drugs will only drive housing costs and prices for other drugs even higher. The same argument can be made about federally funded infrastructure projects as well, which do nothing to lower the prices families pay for gas and groceries.

The big lie there from Walz, however, was the assertion that Harris is "middle class," which couldn't be further from the truth, as she grew up as the privileged child of university professors and researchers, has worked on the taxpayer dime her entire adult life, and is estimated to have a combined net worth of more than $8 million with her husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff.

The lie about a Trump "national sales tax"

Gov. Walz wasn't finished uttering untruths in the WMAZ interview, though, and went on in response to the same question about price inflation to falsely state, "I think the contrast is, is that we see a proposal from Donald Trump to put a 20% national sales tax basically on everything, adding about $4000. Not a single economist thinks it's a good idea."

Per a separate report from Breitbart, that oft-repeated false claim about a Trump "national sales tax" from the Harris-Walz campaign is a blatantly dishonest reference to the former president's proposal to raise tariffs on certain imported goods from foreign producers, especially China.

To be sure, some economists have suggested that tariffs will ultimately result in higher costs being passed on to consumers, but there are plenty of other economists who argue otherwise that tariffs don't measurably add to the cost of consumer goods -- as evidenced by studies of the nearly non-existent price inflation when Trump enacted numerous tariffs throughout his first term in office.

The real kicker here, though, is the fact that while the Harris-Walz campaign is knocking Trump over tariffs supposedly driving up costs for American families, most of his previous tariffs have remained in effect, if not even been increased, by the Biden-Harris administration, but have not been a contributor to the price inflation driven largely by excessive government spending and monetary policies.