Fact Check Posts – Page 3

Peter Barca
stated on June 5, 2013 a fund-raising email

Under Republican-backed state budget, the state education agency estimates expansion of Wisconsin’s school voucher program "could cost nearly $2 billion annually"

June 26, 2013

Charlene Lima
stated on June 13, 2013 a speech on the floor of the Rhode Island House of Representatives

Rhode Island "didn't ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution to pay federal income taxes. So Rhode Island doesn't even have to pay federal income taxes."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 19, 2013

Chain email
stated on June 12, 2013 an email

A hidden provision in Obamacare taxes sporting goods as medical devices.

By Tom Feran • June 14, 2013

Progress Texas
stated on May 31, 2013 a tweet

Says two-thirds of groups targeted for IRS scrutiny were not conservative.

By Sue Owen • June 11, 2013

Michele Bachmann
stated on May 15, 2013 an interview on Fox News' "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren

The IRS is going to be "in charge" of "a huge national database" on health care that will include Americans’ "personal, intimate, most close-to-the-vest-secrets."

By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2013

Associated Industries of Florida
stated on April 14, 2013 a TV ad

The "working tax cut" created "over 40,000 new jobs in just the last four years."

By Katie Sanders • April 19, 2013

Richard Saslaw
stated on January 15, 2013 a news conference.

Except for Virginia, "the other 49 states keep raising their gas tax."

By Sean Gorman • February 11, 2013

Bob McDonnell
stated on January 8, 2013 a news conference.

Says his plan to raise car registration to $56 would still leave Virginia with a fee that’s "equal to or lower than most states."

By Sean Gorman • February 1, 2013

Barbara Buono
stated on January 13, 2013 an interview on bluejersey.com

Says Chris Christie’s plan "to kick-start our economy" is to propose an "income tax cut that disproportionately benefits the wealthy, and...he's still proposing it."

By Bill Wichert • January 24, 2013

Barry Hinckley
stated on October 24, 2012 a television commercial

Sheldon Whitehouse voted for a "$525-billion tax increase on the middle class."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 1, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on October 10, 2012 a campaign ad

"Under President Obama: $4,000 tax hike on middle-class families."

By Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2012

Paul Sadler
stated on October 2, 2012 the U.S. Senate candidate debate at WFAA-TV in Dallas.

"I never supported" a state income tax for Texas.

By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2012

Yes on 79
stated on August 20, 2012 a state voters' pamphlet argument

Says "One of the state’s largest governments made charging this tax one of their top priorities just this year."

By Janie Har • September 25, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on September 19, 2012 remarks in Atlanta

"Redistribution" has "never been a characteristic of America."

By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2012

Menendez Facts
stated on September 4, 2012 a blog

"Sen. Bob Menendez voted to enact a new tax on the sale of homes of 3.8%."

By Erin O'Neill • September 17, 2012

Harry Reid
stated on July 31, 2012 an interview with the Huffington Post

Says Mitt Romney did not pay taxes for 10 years.

By Louis Jacobson • August 6, 2012

We Are Milwaukee
stated on July 30, 2012 a campaign flyer

Says "millions of dollars in tax breaks" were paid for "by busting unions, cutting BadgerCare, and raising taxes on the poor and the middle class, thanks to Elizabeth Coggs' help."

July 31, 2012

Jeff Wentworth
stated on July 19, 2012 a campaign mailer.

Says Donna Campbell is pushing a 35 percent sales tax extending to medicine, groceries and real estate.

By W. Gardner Selby • July 27, 2012

Chain email
stated on July 24, 2012 a chain email

The health care law includes "a 3.8% sales tax" on "all real estate transactions."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 25, 2012

Jeff Fitzgerald
stated on June 28, 2012 a tweet

Says "Obamacare" is "the largest middle-class tax increase in history."

July 23, 2012

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