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Tom Kean Jr.
Tom Kean Jr.
stated on October 7, 2011 a news release:
Says Democrats raised taxes over 115 times in the past 10 years, "making New Jersey increasingly unaffordable and chasing jobs to neighboring states."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • October 16, 2011
Peter Palumbo
Peter Palumbo
stated on October 5, 2011 a speech:
"The Tax Foundation figures Rhode Island as the 10th highest state for state and local tax burden per capita in the country. We're the 6th worst in the country for the business tax index. We're the 3rd highest per capita in the country for all taxes."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 14, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidental primary debate:
The poverty rate for families in which a husband and a wife work is 5 percent, but in families headed by one person … "it's 30 percent today."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • October 13, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on October 7, 2011 a news release:
"Our unemployment rate has been higher than 8 percent for more than two-and-a-half years, far above what the Obama Administration promised with the 'stimulus.' "
Mostly False
By Tom Feran • October 13, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.:
"I created a flat tax in the state of Utah. It took that state to the number-one position in terms of job creation."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 12, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.:
In the early 1960s, all levels of government were "consuming about 27 percent of the U.S. economy," a number that has risen to 37 percent today. With that trendline, "we cease at some point to be a free economy."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 12, 2011
Occupied Wall Street Journal
Occupied Wall Street Journal
stated on October 5, 2011 an article:
"More than 25 million Americans are unemployed. More than 50 million live without health insurance. Perhaps 100 million live in poverty."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 11, 2011
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 10, 2011 postings on Facebook, blogs, and social-media sites:
Say the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay in the U.S. is 475 to 1.
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 10, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 6, 2011 a press conference at the White House:
The Arab Spring … "drove up gas prices."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 7, 2011
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on September 15, 2011 a television interview:
"We have a $2 trillion to $3 trillion infrastructure deficit. We’ve got work that needs to get done. We’ve got people that want to go to work."
Mostly True
By Henry J. Gomez • October 6, 2011
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on September 27, 2011 a speech to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics:
"The typical white male worker in this country is making in real terms what he was making in 1973" and "the average worker is making what they were making in 1996."
Mostly True
By John Gregg • October 5, 2011
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on September 14, 2011 a speech in the House of Representatives:
"Last year, Korea sold nearly half a million cars in our country. ... The United States, you know how much we sell to them? Six thousand. What kind of deal is that?"
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • October 4, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on September 15, 2011 an op-ed:
"If our recovery were more typical of the postwar era . . . we would have 14 million more jobs today."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • October 3, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on September 12, 2011 an ad from the Republican Governors Association:
"We’re. . . keeping and creating jobs in our state. From American Greetings, to Wendy’s, to Diebold, we’ve gone to their doorsteps to keep jobs right here in Ohio."
True
By Reginald Fields • October 3, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on September 7, 2011 a television interview:
"The Fed created $1.2 trillion out of nothing, gave it to banks, and some of them foreign banks, so that they could stabilize their operations."
True
By Peter Krouse • September 28, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on September 19, 2011 a television interview:
"We have 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day."
True
By Sabrina Eaton • September 26, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on September 15, 2011 an op-ed :
"This is the worst jobs recovery since the Great Depression."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • September 26, 2011
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on September 14, 2011 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
Says the Panhandle has had its highest-ever bed tax collections in 2011.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • September 23, 2011
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on September 22, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Orlando, Fla.:
"We're bankrupt."
False
By Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson • September 23, 2011
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer
stated on September 20, 2011 an interview on MSNBC:
"Since 1995, the top 400 wealthiest families have seen their incomes go up 400 percent and their tax rates go down 40 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 21, 2011
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