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Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagher
stated on September 12, 2016 a TV ad:
Says Tom Nelson "backed higher taxes on Social Security, costing Wisconsin seniors $95 million."  
False
By Tom Kertscher • September 30, 2016
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 19, 2016 a statement:
Says that except for Donald Trump, "every other major party nominee" for the past 40 years has released their tax returns.  
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • September 28, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 26, 2016 a Presidential debate:
"The only years that anybody's ever seen" of Donald Trump’s tax returns "showed he didn't pay any federal income tax."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 27, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 a Presidential debate at Hofstra University:
"You will learn more about Donald Trump by going down to the Federal Elections" to see the financial disclosure form than by looking at tax returns.
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 15, 2016 a speech:
"Latinos are 17 percent of our country's population but hold only 2 percent of its wealth."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 6, 2016 a rally in Tampa:
"That's legal: If you find out about somebody else's salary even if you're doing exactly the same job, you can be retaliated against, including being fired, in most places."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • September 9, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on August 17, 2016 a campaign rally in Cleveland:
"I am the only candidate who ran in either the Democratic or the Republican primary who said from the very beginning (that) I will not raise taxes on the middle class."
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll, Warren Fiske • August 17, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on August 15, 2016 a campaign speech in Scranton, Pa. :
Says her campaign platform includes the "biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • August 17, 2016
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on August 4, 2016 a rally:
The Obama administration has been "raising taxes."  
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • August 16, 2016
Paul Manafort
Paul Manafort
stated on August 14, 2016 an interview on "State of the Union":
In Hillary Clinton's tax returns, "you saw a lot of income coming from donors to the Clinton Foundation and people who benefitted from her State Department term as well."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • August 14, 2016
Tom Harkin
Tom Harkin
stated on July 26, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention:
Says "employers are still allowed to pay people with disabilities below the minimum wage."
Mostly True
By Taylor Leighton • August 12, 2016
Anthony Weiner
Anthony Weiner
stated on July 27, 2016 an appearance on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
"We know this now. The banks no longer loan (Donald Trump) money because he's a terrible risk. So he goes to these (Russian) oligarchs and borrows money."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 8, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 25, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention:
"The top 1 percent in recent years has earned 85 percent of all new income."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • July 27, 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."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll, Tom Kertscher • July 26, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 his acceptance speech at the Republican Natiional Convention in Cleveland:
"Household incomes are down more than $4,000 since the year 2000."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2016
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on June 1, 2016 a press conference:
"We have lower family incomes in Illinois today than we had 17 years ago in Illinois ... because of the control of (House) Speaker (Michael) Madigan and his Democrats."
Half-True
By Matt Dietrich • July 13, 2016
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on May 19, 2016 an interview with Chris Stigall on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT:
It's entirely possible that the Democratic nominee, [Hillary Clinton], earned more money giving a single speech on Wall Street than I made the six years that I was there back in the 1980s… In fact, it’s quite likely.
Mostly False
By Loghan Thain • May 31, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 24, 2016 an advertisement:
"In 2006, Donald Trump was hoping for a real estate crash."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 26, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 22, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"The only two (Donald Trump tax returns) we have show that he hasn't paid a penny in taxes."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 24, 2016
Jennifer Shilling
Jennifer Shilling
stated on May 11, 2016 a teleconference:
Under Donald Trump's tax plan, "the top 0.1 percent of taxpayers -- people earning multiple millions of dollars a year, on average --  would get more tax relief than the bottom 60 percent of taxpayers combined."
True
By Tom Kertscher • May 20, 2016
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