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Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 11, 2016 a tweet
Says "President Obama’s proposed oil tax would cost consumers 24 cents a gallon."  
Mostly True
August 26, 2016
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on July 28, 2016 a speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention
Says Donald Trump "proposes tax cuts, too -- $3 trillion for millionaires like himself and $2 trillion for corporations like his."  
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By Nadia Pflaum • August 1, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2016 a speech.
In first week as governor, Tim Kaine "proposed a nearly $4 billion tax increase, $4 billion, including a tax increase on people earning as little as $17,000 a year."
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By Sean Gorman • July 28, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 25, 2016 remarks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia
"The top one-tenth of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."
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By Lauren Carroll • July 26, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 his acceptance speech at the Republican Natiional Convention in Cleveland
"While Hillary Clinton plans a massive, and I mean massive, tax increase, I have proposed the largest tax reduction of any candidate who has run for president this year, Democrat or Republican."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2016
Rick Saccone
Rick Saccone
stated on July 13, 2016 floor remarks during a House session
"Illegal tobacco sales, price driven too high, has been connected to at least several cases of funding terrorism against us in multi-year investigations over the last decade and a half."
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By Cassie Owens • July 18, 2016
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on June 22, 2016 a press conference and several other recent public appearances.
Says middle-class New York State residents will have the "lowest tax rate in 70 years."
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By Dan Clark • July 15, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 5, 2016 a tweet
"Taxpayers are paying a fortune for the use of Air Force One on the campaign trail" by President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 7, 2016
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on May 16, 2016 an interview
"The University of Wisconsin System budget is the biggest it has ever been."  
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May 25, 2016
Chris Wallace
Chris Wallace
stated on May 15, 2016 an episode of "Fox News Sunday"
"Every Republican nominee since Richard Nixon, who at one time was under an audit, has released their tax returns."
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By Lauren Carroll • May 18, 2016
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on April 25, 2016 an Orlando debate
Says LeBron James "stops paying his Social Security taxes at the beginning of the second quarter of the first game of the season."
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By Joshua Gillin • April 28, 2016
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on April 13, 2016 a press release
"Over the past two years, Florida has cut more than $1 billion in taxes."
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By Joshua Gillin • April 25, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 6, 2016 a tweet
"The largest U.S. companies would owe $620 billion in U.S. taxes on the cash they store in tax havens."
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By Jon Greenberg • April 11, 2016
Don Gaetz
Don Gaetz
stated on March 11, 2016 Florida Senate floor debate
"We were able to provide $428 million worth of property tax relief."
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By Joshua Gillin • March 17, 2016
Janet Adkins
Janet Adkins
stated on February 9, 2016 a House Appropriations Committee meeting
"There is great disparity, tremendous disparity, in the (capital) funding on a per-student basis between our traditional public schools and our charter public schools."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • February 22, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 4, 2016 a debate
"We bailed out" Johnson Controls when "we saved the auto industry" and "now they want to avoid paying taxes."
Mostly True
February 11, 2016
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on January 20, 2016 a comment to a Tampa Bay Times reporter
"We've cut taxes 50 times and look what has happened to our revenues. They've grown."
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By Joshua Gillin • February 4, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 14, 2016 Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.
Under Ted Cruz’s tax plan, "businesses will now have to pay 16 percent on the money they make. They will also have to pay 16 percent on the money they pay their employees."
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By W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2016
Jeff Judson
Jeff Judson
stated on December 15, 2015 Conservatives in Action blog post
Texas has the sixth-highest property taxes in the nation.
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By Filipa Ioannou • January 22, 2016
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 10, 2015 a debate
Says Marco Rubio is proposing a new $1 trillion "welfare program" in tax credits and "$1 trillion in new military spending."  
Mostly True
November 12, 2015
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