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Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on January 20, 2014 an interview
"We’re trailing every other state in the Midwest in terms of job creation since January of 2011."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • February 2, 2014
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on January 22, 2014 a campaign commercial
Says Alex Sink supported "more taxes on water and TV."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • January 27, 2014
Rod Monroe
Rod Monroe
stated on January 15, 2014 an Oregon Senate work session
"We have the lowest beer tax in the nation."
False
By Dana Tims • January 24, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 22, 2014 a speech
"With the tax controls we already put in place, property taxes on a typical home in December of 2014 will actually be lower than they were in December of 2010."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • January 23, 2014
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on January 10, 2014 a speech
"The average rate of fraud" in the Earned Income Tax Credit, Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps programs "is 20 to 25 percent."  
Pants on Fire!
January 20, 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."
True
By John Hill • January 19, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 10, 2014 a speech at a Texas Public Policy Foundation forum
Obama unilaterally announced he was delaying employer mandate "through a blog post by a mid-level bureaucrat at the Department of Treasury."
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • January 16, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on January 7, 2014 an interview
Scott Walker's income "tax plan is a tax hike. It increases taxes for nearly 80% of the people in the state."
Pants on Fire!
January 16, 2014
Marilinda Garcia
Marilinda Garcia
stated on December 11, 2013 a tweet
"I cut spending while serving in the state Legislature"
Mostly True
By Kevin Landrigan • January 14, 2014
Kathleen Vinehout
Kathleen Vinehout
stated on December 5, 2013 a speech
"If you make the average amount of people in Wisconsin, $50,000, you got $1.60 less a week in taxes" under the state income-tax cut, but "it didn’t show up in your paycheck."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • January 14, 2014
Kathleen Peters
Kathleen Peters
stated on January 8, 2014 a campaign mailer
"When I was Mayor of South Pasadena, we actually reduced the property taxes we collected."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • January 10, 2014
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on December 17, 2013 Coburn's "Wastebook 2013"
"Oregon is spending $10 million advertising Obamacare with ads that don’t even mention the program and how to enroll in it" and that don’t "mention the word ‘insurance.’"
Mostly False
By Dana Tims • January 8, 2014
Jonathan Harris
Jonathan Harris
stated on December 24, 2013 a newspaper commentary
"You don’t see Norway losing population, and its taxes are astronomical."
Mostly True
By John Hill • January 7, 2014
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on December 12, 2013 a tweet
In altered photo, says Barack Obama wants "more of Texans’ private data" via health care.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • January 4, 2014
Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann
stated on December 12, 2013 a broadcast of "The Big Picture"
Republican state lawmakers "are refusing to give the people of their own states their own tax dollars back in the form of (expanded) Medicaid."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • December 31, 2013
David Rible
David Rible
stated on November 30, 2013 an interview on NJTV's 'On the Record' with Michael Aron program
"This governor has given us continual balanced budgets without raising taxes."
Half-True
By Caryn Shinske • December 29, 2013
Revitalize Cobb
Revitalize Cobb
stated on November 22, 2013 a flier
The new Atlanta Braves stadium will require no tax increase for homeowners and provide $3 million annually for Cobb County schools.
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • December 16, 2013
Senate Conservatives Fund
Senate Conservatives Fund
stated on December 9, 2013 as quoted by Politico
"John Cornyn has voted to increase the debt, raise taxes, bail out Wall Street banks and fund Obamacare."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 12, 2013
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on October 1, 2013 a blog post on his campaign website
"I have cut taxes 63 times, including a 2006 property tax reduction that ranks as the largest in state history."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 8, 2013
James Capretta
James Capretta
stated on December 1, 2013 a broadcast of "Fox News Sunday"
Obamacare is a "massive, massive income redistribution" with "$250 billion a year in Medicaid expansion (and) in the subsidy structure that's basically being paid for by people on Medicare, through Medicare cuts, and a lot of tax increases."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • December 5, 2013
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