Fact Check Posts – Page 6

Libraries Yes! Committee
stated on October 21, 2012 a campaign mailer.

Says Multnomah County libraries "are open 44 hours per week … the lowest of any library in the four-county region."

By Ian K. Kullgren • October 26, 2012

Libraries Yes! Committee
stated on October 21, 2012 a campaign mailer.

Says "the typical homeowner will pay $4 more per month" if library district passes.

By Ian K. Kullgren • October 26, 2012

Betty Sutton
stated on October 17, 2012 a campaign commercial

"Jim Renacci tried to avoid paying taxes on nearly $14 million that he made."

By Sabrina Eaton • October 22, 2012

Josh Mandel
stated on October 2, 2012 a campaign commercial

Sherrod Brown "failed to pay his own taxes three separate times."

By Tom Feran • October 17, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on October 3, 2012 the first presidential debate

The federal tax code has "loopholes that are giving incentives for companies that are shipping jobs overseas."

By Jon Greenberg • October 8, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on October 3, 2012 a presidential debate in Denver

Says Romney wants to add $2 trillion to the defense budget that the military hasn’t asked for.

By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on May 17, 2012 remarks at a campaign fundraiser

"Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax."

By Molly Moorhead • September 18, 2012

Lamar Smith
stated on August 1, 2012 a speech to the Austin-Oak Hill Rotary Club

Says the top 20 percent of income earners pay nearly 70 percent of all federal taxes.

By Sue Owen • August 27, 2012

Martavius Jones
stated on July 13, 2012 an interview on the Fox 13 News program "Memphis in the Morning."

"From a standpoint of the county government, neither school system has received an increase in funding over the past six years."

By Zack McMillin • August 20, 2012

George Allen
stated on July 21, 2012 a debate.

Tim Kaine, as governor, proposed tax increases on people earning "as little as $17,000."

By Sean Gorman • August 3, 2012

Jackie Cilley
stated on July 16, 2012 a statement during a candidates forum at Nashua City Hall

Says New Hampshire has the third-highest property tax in the country.

By Jake Berry • July 23, 2012

Accountability in Government
stated on July 20, 2012 a TV ad

Says Jim Frishe wanted to "tax us for doing our taxes" through an accountant.

By Katie Sanders • July 20, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on July 14, 2012 a TV ad

Says Mitt Romney had millions in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven.

By Molly Moorhead • July 17, 2012

Robert Gibbs
stated on July 8, 2012 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"

Says Mitt Romney "has a corporation in Bermuda (but) failed to disclose that on seven different financial disclosures."

By Jon Greenberg • July 10, 2012

Don McIntire
stated on June 26, 2012 a radio show

"We’re spending $12,000 bucks a kid a year in the school system."

By Janie Har • July 3, 2012

Sarah Palin
stated on June 28, 2012 a tweet

Obama "said (the individual mandate) wasn't a tax."

By Louis Jacobson • June 28, 2012

Gerry Connolly
stated on June 5, 2012 a floor speech.

Ronald Reagan "raised taxes in 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1987."

By Nancy Madsen • June 25, 2012

Lou Greenwald
stated on April 1, 2012 an interview with on NJTV's "On The Record."

New Jersey has "the highest property taxes in the nation and not by a little. They are the highest property taxes in the nation, more than double the national average."

By Caryn Shinske • May 10, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on May 5, 2012 a speech in Columbus, Ohio

Says Mitt Romney is proposing a "tax cut that gives an average of $250,000 to every millionaire in this country."

By Louis Jacobson • May 8, 2012

John Wisniewski
stated on April 13, 2012 a video press release

"If you're earning under $100,000 a year and you commute to New York every day you pay more to the Port Authority in tolls than you pay to the state of New Jersey in income tax."

By Erin O'Neill • April 23, 2012

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