Latest Fact-Checks By Tom Feran

Says Wendy’s founder "Dave Thomas left the state literally on his deathbed to avoid the estate tax."

Says signs posted at projects funded by the federal stimulus act has cost "20 or 40 million" dollars.

"One of the biggest causes of our soaring debt and economic insecurity ends up being Pentagon spending. The budget for the Pentagon consumes more than…

Says Ohio is one of just 17 states with an estate tax, and it has "the lowest threshold in the nation."

"For [GM] to pay back everything it owes, it would have to sell its shares at $143 a share . . . where the highest…

"Ben Franklin once quipped that only two things in life were certain: death and taxes. I think even he didn't envision that the tax man…

On whether the state should privatize the Ohio Turnpike.

Says that before health care reform, one of every three health care dollars spent -- more than $800 billion a year -- didn't go for…

Says the 3C Corridor train would have taken  "an hour and 15 minutes longer" to carry passengers across Ohio "than it would have taken on…

"It's taken more time to complete the Towpath Trail than it did to build the (Ohio & Erie) Canal."

"We're worse than a Third World country in terms of water quality and the way we treat our sewage."

"We are giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries every year to make the (childhood obesity) epidemic…