Fact Check Posts – Page 29

Claudia Tenney
stated on July 7, 2016 a press release.:

Kim Myers "voted repeatedly to raise taxes on the people of Broome County, but made millions off of tax savings when her family business relocated its headquarters."

By Dan Clark • August 17, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on August 4, 2016 a rally:

The Obama administration has been "raising taxes."

By Sean Gorman • August 16, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2016 a speech:

Says Hillary Clinton's plan "would tax many small businesses by almost 50 percent."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 10, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 4, 2016 a campaign video :

"Hillary Clinton says she wants to, ‘raise taxes on the middle class.’ "

By Linda Qiu • August 5, 2016

Sherrod Brown
stated on July 28, 2016 a speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention:

Says Donald Trump "proposes tax cuts, too -- $3 trillion for millionaires like himself and $2 trillion for corporations like his."

By Nadia Pflaum • August 1, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2016 a speech.:

In first week as governor, Tim Kaine "proposed a nearly $4 billion tax increase, $4 billion, including a tax increase on people earning as little as $17,000 a year."

By Sean Gorman • July 28, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on July 27, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia:

Independent analysts "found that Trump's tax plan, given to the wealthy and big corporations, would rack up $30 trillion in debt."

By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on July 25, 2016 remarks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia:

"The top one-tenth of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."

By Lauren Carroll, Tom Kertscher • July 26, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on July 14, 2016 a speech.:

"I am the only candidate who ran in either primary who said, ‘I will not raise taxes on the middle class.’"

By Warren Fiske • July 23, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention:

"An amendment, pushed by Lyndon Johnson many years ago, threatens religious institutions with a loss of their tax-exempt status if they openly advocate their political views."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 the 2016 Republican National Convention:

"America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world."

By Louis Jacobson, Nadia Pflaum • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 his acceptance speech at the Republican Natiional Convention in Cleveland:

"While Hillary Clinton plans a massive, and I mean massive, tax increase, I have proposed the largest tax reduction of any candidate who has run for president this year, Democrat or Republican."

By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2016

Mark Kirk
stated on June 15, 2016 a website press release:

Says Rep. Tammy "Duckworth has been a staunch supporter of expanding the spending, size and reach of the IRS."

By Madeleine Doubek • July 21, 2016

Scott Walker
stated on June 27, 2016 a letter to Department of Transportation officials:

"For decades, the state’s gas tax has been among the highest in the nation."

By Sarah Hauer • July 20, 2016

Sean Duffy
stated on July 18, 2016 a speech:

"Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have left us with $19 trillion in debt."

By Tom Kertscher • July 19, 2016

Rick Saccone
stated on July 13, 2016 floor remarks during a House session:

"Illegal tobacco sales, price driven too high, has been connected to at least several cases of funding terrorism against us in multi-year investigations over the last decade and a half."

By Cassie Owens • July 18, 2016

Andrew Cuomo
stated on June 22, 2016 a press conference and several other recent public appearances.:

Says middle-class New York State residents will have the "lowest tax rate in 70 years."

By Dan Clark • July 15, 2016

Mike Turzai
stated on June 15, 2016 an op-ed for PennLive:

"Each [Corbett administration] budget finished in the black."

By Cassie Owens • July 13, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 5, 2016 a tweet:

"Taxpayers are paying a fortune for the use of Air Force One on the campaign trail" by President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 7, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 21, 2016 a speech:

Says Donald Trump’s proposed tax treatment of hedge fund managers "makes the current loophole even worse."

By Adam Thorp • July 1, 2016

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