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Scott Walker
stated on May 31, 2018 a tweet

"Since taking office, we have enacted more than $8 billion in cumulative tax relief."

June 22, 2018

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 30, 2018 a tweet

"You know what Amazon paid in federal income taxes last year? Zero."

By Manuela Tobias • May 3, 2018

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"

By Dan Clark • April 12, 2018

Robert Mujica
stated on January 18, 2018 a radio interview

"70 percent of the income tax that the state collects happens to come from Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk and New York City"

By Dan Clark • February 1, 2018

Daniel Biss
stated on November 27, 2017 a tweet

These guys are now pretty much living up to the @BruceRauner standard. And falling dismally short of the @MittRomney standard. Even Romney released his full tax returns.

By Matt Dietrich • December 4, 2017

Mark Pocan
stated on October 18, 2017 an interview

What Republicans call the "death tax" is the estate tax "on the ultra wealthy" which, in 2016, was paid by only "two out of every 1,000 people."

October 27, 2017

Roy Blunt
stated on September 8, 2017 a tweet

"Our tax code has nearly doubled since 1985."

By Katelyn Brown • October 17, 2017

Illinois Policy Institute
stated on August 3, 2017 a tweet

The new tax will make soda sold in Chicago among the most expensive in the country.

By Matt Dietrich • August 7, 2017

John Faso
stated on July 15, 2017 an article in the Times Herald-Record

"We now have about one-third of New York’s population on Medicaid."

By Dan Clark • July 21, 2017

Scott Walker
stated on May 17, 2017 a radio interview

Tax cuts approved and those proposed in his state budget "will exceed $8 billion by the time the budget is done."

By Alan Hovorka • July 12, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on May 11, 2017 an interview with 'The Economist'

The federal tax code includes "deductions for birds flying across America."

By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2017

Rana Foroohar
stated on April 26, 2017 a CNN interview

"There's no real evidence in the last 20 years that" growth from tax cuts has made up lost revenue.

By John Kruzel • April 28, 2017

Ron Johnson
stated on March 21, 2017 an interview

The GOP’s Obamacare replacement would reduce subsidies that help lower-income people buy health insurance, but also "expand the entitlement" by giving subsidies to higher-income people "that Obamacare never helped."

March 23, 2017

Donna Howard
stated on February 27, 2017 a Facebook Live interview with Austin bureau reporters for the Dallas Morning News

Says condoms "used to be tax-exempt here in Texas."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 10, 2017

Rick Scott
stated on March 7, 2017 his State of the State speech

"Florida is now the only state in the nation to tax commercial leases."

By Allison Graves • March 8, 2017

Nancy Pelosi
stated on March 5, 2017 an interview with CNN's "State of the Union"

Says 70 percent of benefits in Donald Trump’s proposal for child care "go to the people making over $100,000 a year."

By Gabrielle Healy • March 8, 2017

Scott Walker
stated on January 10, 2017 In a speech

Wisconsin property taxes, as a percentage of personal income, "are the lowest that they've been since the end of World War II."

January 13, 2017

Robert Astorino
stated on January 10, 2017 a press release

"I have never once raised the county tax levy -- not for seven straight years."

By Dan Clark • January 11, 2017

Hillary Clinton
stated on November 4, 2016 a campaign rally

Under Donald Trump's tax plan, "51 percent of single parents would see their taxes go up."

By Linda Qiu • November 6, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 the second presidential debate

Says Warren Buffett has publicly said his secretary "should not be paying a higher tax rate" than him.

By Rachel Tiede • October 18, 2016

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