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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 30, 2018 a tweet
Rep. Dan Donovan "voted for Tax Cuts"
Mostly True
By Dan Clark • June 4, 2018
Patrick McHenry
Patrick McHenry
stated on May 29, 2018 a newsletter
"Americans received the biggest tax cut in history last year."
False
By Paul Specht • June 4, 2018
Christine Quinn
Christine Quinn
stated on May 23, 2018 a presentation at the State Democratic Convention
New York state has the "second highest millionaires tax in the nation."
Mostly False
By Dan Clark • May 31, 2018
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on April 17, 2018 an online ad
"Property and income taxes will be lower in 2018 than they were in 2010."
Mostly True
May 30, 2018
Scott Dawson
Scott Dawson
stated on May 15, 2018 campaign press release
"Gov. Kay Ivey gave nearly $1 million of taxpayers’ money to a liberal activist organization that promotes alternative lifestyles and transgenderism."
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • May 29, 2018
Scott Wagner
Scott Wagner
stated on May 21, 2018 Fundraising email
Gov. Wolf is trying to implement "a severance tax that would be financed by Pennsylvania’s working class"
Mostly False
By Colin Deppen • May 25, 2018
Edward Cox
Edward Cox
stated on May 1, 2018 an interview on The Capital Pressroom
Marc Molinaro "has cut taxes, his budget now is lower than it was six years ago" in Dutchess County
Half-True
By Dan Clark • May 24, 2018
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 30, 2018 a tweet
"You know what Amazon paid in federal income taxes last year? Zero."
True
By Manuela Tobias • May 3, 2018
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on April 17, 2018 a news conference
Says that on the tax reform law, Democratic leaders "are promising to take it all away."
Half-True
May 2, 2018
Sue Bell Cobb
Sue Bell Cobb
stated on April 24, 2018 Democratic debate for governor
"Alabama is operating government on the lowest amount of tax revenue of any state in the nation."
Mostly True
By Manuela Tobias • May 1, 2018
Todd Rokita
Todd Rokita
stated on April 23, 2018 a debate
"I am the only one onstage who has never voted to raise your taxes. These two, each, a billion dollars worth of votes to raise your taxes."
Half-True
By Manuela Tobias • April 30, 2018
Ro Khanna
Ro Khanna
stated on April 19, 2018 a Facebook post
"Most of our taxes are spent on the so-called ‘War on Terror.’"
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 24, 2018
Dean Heller
Dean Heller
stated on April 17, 2018 a campaign ad press release
Says Jacky Rosen promised "to repeal middle-class tax cut."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 24, 2018
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on April 16, 2018 a news release from Senate Democrats
In the wake of the Republican-backed tax bill, "more than 100,000 American workers have already been laid off in 2018."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2018
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on April 4, 2018 a tweet
"Our bold reforms have Wisconsin’s unemployment rate down to an all-time LOW of 2.9 percent, and the number of people working at an all-time HIGH!"  
Half-True
April 18, 2018
Marc Molinaro
Marc Molinaro
stated on April 2, 2018 a conversation with reporters
New York has "among the highest tax burdens of any state in the nation"
True
By Dan Clark • April 12, 2018
Anonymous Caller
Anonymous Caller
stated on April 10, 2018 an anonymous phone message
Says that unless the recipient called back about "your tax filings," you "will be taken into custody by the local cops as there are more serious allegations pressed on your name."  
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • April 11, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 5, 2018 posts on the Internet
"Nancy Pelosi vows Democrats will raise taxes if they take back the House."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 9, 2018
Brian Kolb
Brian Kolb
stated on March 31, 2018 a statement on the state budget
This year’s state budget "continues to direct millions in taxpayer dollars in advertising to the failing Start-Up NY program"
False
By Dan Clark • April 9, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 5, 2018 an event in West Virginia
"This will be the last time — April — that you’re going to (fill out) that old-fashioned, big, lots of pages, complicated tax form. Because next April you’re going to, in many cases, (file) one page, one card. It’s going to be very, very different. Very, very different."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 9, 2018
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