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Anitere Flores
Anitere Flores
stated on April 30, 2010 a House floor speech:
For the new state budget, "Floridians have sent us $3 billion less of their funding."
False
By Lee Logan • May 5, 2010
Richard Shelby
Richard Shelby
stated on March 25, 2010 a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner:
"The bill reported out of committee sets up a $50 billion slush fund that, while intended for resolving failing firms, is available for virtually any purpose that the treasury secretary sees fit."
False
By Catharine Richert • April 16, 2010
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on April 8, 2010 a speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference:
When the United States "first created the federal income tax, frankly, nobody below a million dollars a year paid anything."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2010
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on March 28, 2010 a FOX News Sunday debate.:
Rubio's tax swap proposal "would have been a massive tax increase."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • March 28, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 28, 2010 a U.S. Senate primary debate on FOX News Sunday:
Did not vote for tax increases as a member of the West Miami City Commission.
False
By Aaron Sharockman • March 28, 2010
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on March 24, 2010 a comment on his "Morning Joe'' program on MSNBC:
The health care reform bill "is the largest tax increase in U.S. history."
False
By Robert Farley • March 25, 2010
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on March 24, 2010 a comment on the "Morning Joe'' show on MSNBC.:
"Joe, I keep hearing you every morning talking about the biggest tax increase in history, but you don't mention it's also the biggest tax cut in history.''
False
By Robert Farley • March 25, 2010
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on March 2, 2010 his State of the State address.:
"We worked together to enact ... the largest tax cut in Florida history."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • March 3, 2010
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on January 14, 2010 in a Republican gubernatorial debate:
"The largest tax increase that we have ever had in our state is yours – it is the business margins tax that you signed, governor."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 22, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on November 25, 2009 his campaign Web site:
"I have never voted for a tax increase."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • November 25, 2009
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on September 25, 2009 speaking to a group of Michigan Republicans:
"I signed the largest single tax cut in the history of Florida, a $25 billion tax cut over five years, directed at property tax cuts."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • November 10, 2009
Tom McClintock
Tom McClintock
stated on October 27, 2009 a speech on the House floor:
Three presidents in the last century — Harding, Kennedy and Reagan — all cut taxes during recessions and produced "rapid and dramatic economic recoveries," while two, Herbert Hoover and Barack Obama, did "the opposite."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2009
John Carter
John Carter
stated on August 31, 2009 a column by the Texas Republican on the Web site of the Christian Coalition of America:
"The Obama Administration's own White House Council of Economic Advisers has estimated 4.7 million Americans will lose their jobs if the (health care) bill passes."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 23, 2009 an op-ed for National Review:
The Democrat-backed health care reform plan "will require (Americans) to subsidize abortion with their hard-earned tax dollars."
False
By Robert Farley • August 7, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 5, 2009 a speech in Wakarusa, Ind.:
Stimulus tax cuts "began showing up in paychecks of 4.8 million Indiana households about three months ago."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2009
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 16, 2008 a Web ad:
"Obama raises taxes on seniors (and) hard-working families to give welfare to those who pay none."  
False
By Robert Farley • December 1, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 7, 2008 comment from McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds on Fox News:
"Senator Obama has voted 94 times to either increase your taxes or against tax cuts."
False
By Adriel Bettelheim • October 7, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on August 11, 2008 an Internet ad:
Obama plans "a tax increase for everyone earning more than $42,000 a year."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 12, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on July 22, 2008 a chain e-mail:
"Obama will charge a 28 percent tax on all home sales."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 4, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on July 23, 2008 a chain e-mail:
Barack Obama wants to "restore" the estate tax that George W. Bush "repealed."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 4, 2008
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