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Metro
Metro
stated on April 24, 2013 voters pamphlet:
Metro on whether it could use bond money for restoration.
Full Flop
By Janie Har • May 4, 2013
League of Women Voters of the Austin Area
League of Women Voters of the Austin Area
stated on April 28, 2013 a Voters Guide.:
Says proponents of a bond package for the Austin school district say the district has the second-lowest bond tax rate "among the Central Texas area school districts."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 3, 2013
League of Women Voters of the Austin Area
League of Women Voters of the Austin Area
stated on April 28, 2013 a voters guide.:
Says opponents of proposed Austin school district bonds say the district’s "debt load doubles with these new bonds."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 3, 2013
Leonard Lance
Leonard Lance
stated on April 15, 2013 a press release:
"The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • May 2, 2013
Rob Woodall
Rob Woodall
stated on April 16, 2013 a speech:
"Do you know those former Soviet Bloc countries have all moved to flat taxes?"
Half-True
By Chris Joyner • April 29, 2013
Adam Schefter
Adam Schefter
stated on April 25, 2013 a tweet about the NFL Draft:
"Odd fact for odd draft: No. 2 overall pick will earn more than the No. 1 pick due to no state tax in Florida. So 2 not so bad."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • April 26, 2013
Bill Hammond
Bill Hammond
stated on April 15, 2013 a press conference with Gov. Rick Perry, April 15, 2013:
Says businesses pay roughly 60 percent of taxes in Texas.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • April 26, 2013
Leonard Lance
Leonard Lance
stated on April 15, 2013 a news release about tax reform:
"The United States currently has the highest corporate tax rate in the world."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • April 25, 2013
Carlos Gimenez
Carlos Gimenez
stated on April 10, 2013 a county commission meeting:
The Miami Dolphins "are the only NFL team in the entire nation that pays property taxes."
False
By Amy Sherman • April 22, 2013
Associated Industries of Florida
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."
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • April 19, 2013
The Tax Foundation
The Tax Foundation
stated on April 12, 2013 a press release:
"We Really Do Have the Highest Corporate Tax Rate in the World."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • April 17, 2013
Nancy Nathanson
Nancy Nathanson
stated on April 4, 2013 a House floor speech.:
Says "a pack-a-day smoker who quits because of the tax increase will save about $1,650 a year."
True
By Ian K. Kullgren • April 15, 2013
Virginia Society for Human Life
Virginia Society for Human Life
stated on April 3, 2013 a statement.:
Under Obamacare, Virginia taxpayers would have been "forced to pay for abortions" if the General Assembly had not recently intervened.  
False
By Sean Gorman • April 15, 2013
Lon Burnam
Lon Burnam
stated on March 4, 2013 a press release:
Says rejecting federal aid to expand Medicaid in Texas will "send $9 billion in federal taxes paid by Texans to other states to insure their working poor."
False
By Sue Owen • April 12, 2013
Caddy McKeown
Caddy McKeown
stated on April 4, 2013 a House floor speech:
Says "A baby in Coos County is two times as likely to be born to a mother who is someone who used tobacco during her pregnancy as is the average baby born in Oregon or the U.S."
True
By Janie Har • April 12, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on March 25, 2013 an answer to a caller on NJ 101.5's "Ask The Governor" program:
"The people who were running the budget, in the Corzine years, decided to steal from the unemployment trust fund. … As did other Governors before. We simply don’t do that, haven’t done it, and won’t permit it."
Mostly False
By Caryn Shinske • April 11, 2013
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 21, 2013 a television interview:
"Right now, Texas doesn’t have an income tax and Oklahoma’s lowering their income tax rates, and guess what their severance tax is? Sky high."
True
By Robert Higgs • April 8, 2013
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on March 25, 2013 a radio interview.:
Paul Ryan’s budget "keeps the Obamacare taxes and spending cuts that paid for Obamacare, but then cuts all of the benefits."
Mostly True
By Nancy Madsen • April 8, 2013
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on March 22, 2013 a news release:
Says that even if his budget is adopted, private schools in the choice program would be getting about half the per-pupil funds that public schools receive
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • April 7, 2013
Ron Wyden
Ron Wyden
stated on April 1, 2013 a press conference:
Says "I've authored the first bipartisan tax reform bill in a quarter-century."  
Mostly True
By Janie Har • April 6, 2013
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