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Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 25, 2015 a forum at the Freedom Partners 2015 California retreat:
"When you look at the earned income tax credit, it has about a 25 percent fraud rate. We're looking at $20 billion to $30 billion."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • January 30, 2015
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on January 25, 2015 an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes":
The Affordable Care Act "basically puts a penalty or a tax on employers for every new job they create."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2015
Stuart Varney
Stuart Varney
stated on January 27, 2015 an interview on Fox News' "America's Newsroom":
"It will cost $50,000 per enrollee in Obamacare over the next 10 years."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • January 28, 2015
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on January 25, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday":
"You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down -- Abraham Lincoln said it."  
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • January 25, 2015
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 13, 2015 a news release:
Middle-class Americans "pay a higher tax rate than millionaires and billionaires."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • January 25, 2015
Jennifer Granholm
Jennifer Granholm
stated on January 18, 2015 an interview on ABC's "This Week":
Says Mitt Romney "pays less tax than the guys who installed his car elevators."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 18, 2015
Bob Buckhorn
Bob Buckhorn
stated on January 15, 2015 a campaign ad:
Says he "balanced the budget without raising taxes."
Mostly False
By Richard Danielson • January 16, 2015
James Aubin
James Aubin
stated on January 5, 2015 a newspaper commentary:
"Colorado raked in $60 million in marijuana taxes and licensing fees in the past year."
True
By Katie Mulvaney • January 11, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on December 17, 2014 remarks to reporters:
"The difference over the (previous) four years between where things were headed and where we brought them to over the last four years is a total of $816 in saved property tax money."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • January 9, 2015
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on January 6, 2015 his second inaugural address:
"Estimates say individuals who escaped these high tax states have taken with them around $2 trillion in adjusted gross income."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • January 8, 2015
Louie Gohmert
Louie Gohmert
stated on January 5, 2015 a Fox news interview:
Says President Barack Obama has "not proposed one thing that would change" the fact that Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.
False
By Lauren Carroll • January 7, 2015
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 1, 2015 a chain email:
New tax increases that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2015, "all passed under the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 5, 2015
Kevin Brady
Kevin Brady
stated on December 17, 2014 a press release:
"Texas families have kept more than $10 billion in their family budgets since we successfully fought to restore Texas' sales tax deduction a decade ago."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 23, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on December 12, 2014 a tweet:
"My property taxes went down largely because my technical college portion went down 35.5% because of the money we put in at state."
True
By Dave Umhoefer • December 18, 2014
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on December 11, 2014 an interview with CNN:
The home-mortgage deduction is widely thought to be "a middle-class benefit. It's not -- 73 percent of it goes to people making a quarter-million dollars or more a year."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2014
Susan Stimpson
Susan Stimpson
stated on December 2, 2014 a news release.:
"Bill Howell has been the consistent force behind every major tax increase in Virginia in the last decade."
Mostly True
By Nancy Madsen • December 15, 2014
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on December 2, 2014 a TV ad:
Mike "Martinez has voted to raise taxes and utility rates while ending free bus service for seniors."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 11, 2014
Mario Loyola
Mario Loyola
stated on November 5, 2014 an opinion piece:
"Wisconsin’s state budget is almost twice as large per person as the state budget of Texas, and even after billions in tax cuts, Wisconsin’s working families and businesses remain subject to a heavy tax burden."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • December 1, 2014
Jim Skaggs
Jim Skaggs
stated on November 5, 2014 as quoted in a news story:
Austin is "burdened by the fastest-growing tax increases of any major city in the nation."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 28, 2014
Anne Nolan
Anne Nolan
stated on November 12, 2014 a Journal commentary:
"In Rhode Island, a recent study showed that among a group of people who had been homeless for a year or more, Medicaid costs averaged about $60,000 per person."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 23, 2014
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