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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
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
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
Edward Lindsey
Edward Lindsey
stated on November 10, 2014 an Atlanta Journal-Constitution story
Georgia has some of the highest gas taxes in the Southeast but one of the lowest taxes on gasoline for transportation in the nation.
Mostly True
By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • November 18, 2014
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