Tonight, bold progressive candidate Elizabeth Warren is in a live television debate on Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA).

During a moment just now, Scott Brown defended voting against President Obama’s jobs bill that would’ve created up to 1.9 million jobs nationwide. Ai??Warren first challenged him for voting against these jobs bills, and then he quickly responded.

Looking at the camera, Brown said, “The [jobs bill] that she refers to with all due respect would have raised your taxes $450 billion.” Watch it:

Brown pretended that the Obama jobs bill raised taxes on the very audience and constituents who were watching the debate. But the bill only raised taxes in its original form on Americans whose household income topped $250,000. Senate Democrats later proposed raising taxes only on millionaires.Ai??These tax hikes on the rich were included to pay for the bill. In essence, the bill asked the richest Americans to pay a little bit more to hire thousands of teachers, firefighters, and other important workers and to rebuild America.

Maybe Brown thinks only the super-rich are watching the debate, or those are the only people he wants to speak to. It’s entirely possible he didn’t want to tax the rich a tiny amount to pay for jobs for millions of Americans. Any other explanation would be that he simply wanted to mislead the audience.