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Latest Fact-Checks On Mark Warner

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Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on June 27, 2011 in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.:
"If you look at our tax mix, the share of corporate revenues as a percentage of our overall revenue mix has declined by about half over the last 30 years."
Half-True
By Jacob Geiger • July 2, 2011
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on April 17, 2011 in a TV appearance.:
"Right now we are spending at an all-time high, close to 25 percent of our GDP [is] being spent on the federal government. But our revenues are at an almost all-time low of about 15 percent [of GDP]."
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By Jacob Geiger • April 22, 2011
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on April 11, 2011 in a meeting with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial board:
"There used to be 16 workers for every one person on Social Security. ... Now it’s three."
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By Eric Stirgus, Willoughby Mariano • April 12, 2011
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on January 25, 2011 in a TV interview.:
The U.S. loses more on tax breaks than it collects in personal income taxes. 
True
By Warren Fiske • February 1, 2011
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on December 6, 2010 in a floor speech.:
The national debt grew an estimated $15 billion last weekend.
True
By Wes Hester • December 9, 2010
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on November 11, 2010 in n Op/Ed in The Financial Times:
$65 billion "would be added to the deficit if we keep the cuts for people on the highest incomes."
Mostly True
By Wes Hester • November 14, 2010
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on August 26, 2008 in Denver:
The U.S. energy policy is to "borrow money from China to buy oil from countries that don't like us."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2008
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