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Charlotte Bergmann
Charlotte Bergmann
stated on July 4, 2012 an email newsletter.
"Obamacare" represents "the largest tax increase in the history of the world."
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By Bartholomew Sullivan • July 22, 2012
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on June 28, 2012 a news release
The Affordable Care Act "will likely go down as the biggest tax increase in history."
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By Tom Feran • July 20, 2012
Vincent
Vincent "Buddy" Cianci
stated on July 11, 2012 a question to a candidate
President Obama’s health care law says "when you sell your house now you have to pay a 3.8 percent tax."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 15, 2012
American Commitment
American Commitment
stated on July 10, 2012 a television ad
The health care law "imposes the largest tax increase in history on the middle class."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 11, 2012
Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell
stated on June 29, 2012 a TV interview.
States still face a "mandate" to expand Medicaid coverage under President Obama's health care reform law.
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By Sean Gorman • July 6, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 29, 2012 a TV interview with Greta Van Susteren
A company with "20 employees" could go "out of business" because of health care law requirements to buy insurance.
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By Katie Sanders, Tia Mitchell • July 3, 2012
Mark Neumann
Mark Neumann
stated on June 20, 2012 an interview
Says "Barack Obama and his team" are "socialists in every respect of the word."
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June 29, 2012
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on June 28, 2012 comments on his radio show
"Obamacare is . . . the largest tax increase in the history of the world."
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By Aaron Sharockman • June 28, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on June 7, 2012 a television ad
Federal health care reforms amounted to ‘the government takeover of health care.’
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By James B. Nelson • June 24, 2012
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on May 9, 2012 a TV ad
"20 million people could lose their current coverage" … "including our senior citizens who are on Medicare."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 15, 2012
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on April 4, 2012 a news release
Sen. Sherrod Brown’s vote helped pass "Barack Obama’s job-killing health care law, which slapped small businesses throughout Ohio with a $500 billion tax increase."
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By Stephen Koff • April 12, 2012
Joseph Kyrillos
Joseph Kyrillos
stated on March 15, 2012 a campaign e-mail
Says under the new health care law "the patient-doctor relationship will be eliminated."
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By Erin O'Neill • March 26, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on March 12, 2012 a campaign memo
President Barack Obama is "ending Medicare as we know it."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2012
Pat Boone
Pat Boone
stated on March 11, 2012 a television ad
An independent payment advisory board created by the health care reform law "can ration care and deny certain Medicare treatments."
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By Tom Feran • March 19, 2012
Pat Boone
Pat Boone
stated on March 12, 2012 a television ad
"This (Independent Payment Advisory Board) board can ration care and deny certain Medicare treatments so Washington can fund more wasteful spending."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 15, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on February 2, 2012 a message via the Internet
"If you sell your house after 2012 you will pay a 3.8 percent sales tax on it."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 7, 2012
Stacey Campfield
Stacey Campfield
stated on January 26, 2012 an interview with Michelangelo Signorile on the Sirius satellite radio show “OutQ.”
AIDS was transmitted to humans because "one guy" had sex with "a monkey" and then started "having sex with men."
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By Zack McMillin • February 3, 2012
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on December 27, 2011 tweets
Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker eliminated "cancer screenings for uninsured women" and offered "no alternatives."  
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January 6, 2012
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Iowa
Says Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, "put into place socialized medicine."
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By Becky Bowers • December 11, 2011
60 Plus Association
60 Plus Association
stated on November 7, 2011 a television commercial
An independent payment advisory board created by in the health care reform law is "like a Medicare IRS with the power to cut Medicare in order to pay for new government programs."
Pants on Fire!
By Sabrina Eaton • November 25, 2011
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