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Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 17, 2015 a radio interview:
"By the end of this budget I'm in right now, taxes will have been cut $4.7 billion in my state." 
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By Lucas Daprile • August 28, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 3, 2015 a candidates forum:
Wisconsin’s "rainy day fund" is "165 times bigger than when we first took office."
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By Tom Kertscher • August 7, 2015
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on June 14, 2015 an opinion column:
"Jasper County in Texas raised property taxes by 7 percent in order to pay for one death penalty case."
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By W. Gardner Selby • July 9, 2015
Lee May
Lee May
stated on June 2, 2015 a press release:
"Our reserves are now in much better shape than they were just a few years ago."
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By April Hunt • June 9, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 remarks at an economic summit in Orlando:
"You can fill out your tax return in Estonia online in five minutes."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 4, 2015
Timothy Sheehy
Timothy Sheehy
stated on April 10, 2015 an interview:
A 50-50 public-private split for paying for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena would "be much better -- in terms of the portion of the public financing -- than most of the other arena projects done around the country."  
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By Tom Kertscher • May 29, 2015
Elizabeth Roberts
Elizabeth Roberts
stated on March 2, 2015 a presentation to the Reinventing Medicaid Working Group:
"More than 30 cents of every state tax dollar goes to Medicaid."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 19, 2015
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
stated on February 10, 2015 news reports:
The proposed transportation tax plan revokes a tax-credit for consumers’ electric cars while the state retains similar credits for similar vehicles for businesses.
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By April Hunt • March 16, 2015
Trebor Banstetter
Trebor Banstetter
stated on February 2, 2015 in a statement:
A bill to eliminate Delta Air Lines’ jet fuel tax breaks "violates federal law and puts the state at risk of losing critical funding from the Federal Aviation Administration."
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By Nancy Badertscher • February 23, 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."
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By Katie Mulvaney • January 11, 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."
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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."
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By Dave Umhoefer • December 18, 2014
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on September 2, 2014 a speech:
"Miller Brewing is not a U.S. company any more. Neither is Anheuser-Busch."
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By James B. Nelson • September 8, 2014
Mike Martinez
Mike Martinez
stated on August 4, 2014 as quoted in a news story:
"The majority of Austinites rent" the places they live.
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By W. Gardner Selby • August 22, 2014
Virginia Foxx
Virginia Foxx
stated on April 15, 2014 in a comment on Twitter:
Americans spend "6.1 billion hours a year" on tax preparation.
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By Tim Ryan • April 15, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on March 4, 2014 a statement to reporters:
"Once our Blueprint for Prosperity is signed into law, we will have delivered $2 billion" in tax relief.
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By Dave Umhoefer • March 12, 2014
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
stated on January 16, 2014 a web ad.:
Mark Warner voted for "nearly $1 trillion in new taxes and $7 trillion in new debt."
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By Nancy Madsen • February 10, 2014
Nicholas Gorham
Nicholas Gorham
stated on December 30, 2013 a newspaper commentary:
The General Assembly "has no explicit constitutional authority to impose income, sales, estate and the myriad of other taxes upon us."
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By John Hill • January 19, 2014
Jan Schakowsky
Jan Schakowsky
stated on November 12, 2013 an interview on MSNBC:
The United States "has never been richer, if you look at per capita GDP."
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By Steve Contorno • November 18, 2013
Charlotte Nash
Charlotte Nash
stated on October 22, 2013 an interview:
Finance experts estimate that paying in cash for the $2.5 billion in projects funded by the sales tax saved Gwinnett County more than $1 billion in interest payments.
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By Eric Stirgus • November 11, 2013
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