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Steve Doocy says someone earning $250,000 pays half that in taxes

By Louis Jacobson July 16, 2012

"If you make more than $250,000 a year … you only really take home about $125,000."

Marco Rubio says $800 billion in taxes in health care law do not “discriminate between rich and poor”

July 16, 2012

The health care law "adds around $800 billion of taxes on the American people. It does not discriminate between rich and poor."

NH Democrats heap blame on Speaker Bill O’Brien and his Tea Party followers

By Jake Berry July 16, 2012

"Bill O'Brien's Tea Party legislature tried to repeal kindergarten and compulsory education, defund Planned Parenthood and eliminate insurance coverage for birth control."

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says prostitution money is helping fund groups backing Rep. Sean Duffy’s campaign

By James B. Nelson July 16, 2012

"Foreign Chinese prostitution money is allegedly behind the groups funding Congressman Sean Duffy’s Republican Majority."

Chris Christie claims New Jersey has reduced the number of state employees without any layoffs to below the level when Christie Whitman resigned

By Bill Wichert July 16, 2012

"New Jersey today has fewer employees in state government than it had when Christie Whitman left office in January of 2001, and I think that’s…

Bill Johnson says Ohio leads in job creation and has among the best jobless rates

By Tom Feran July 16, 2012

"The state of Ohio has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation right now and is leading the pack in terms of job…

Cantor says that under the health care law, the people who like their insurance will lose “what they have”

By Warren Fiske July 16, 2012

Because of the health care act, "The people who have health care and like it in this county are not going to be able to…

Deal spokesman slips up on health care impact to Georgia

By Eric Stirgus July 16, 2012

Funding the federal health care law without a tax hike will "require the state to cut nearly a quarter of its annual budget."

GOP Wisconsin Senate candidate Tommy Thompson says he never backed individual mandate

July 15, 2012

Says he "never supported" federal health care individual mandate.

Joe Kyrillos claims the United States is not producing jobs

By Erin O'Neill July 15, 2012

"We are not producing jobs. We created 80,000 jobs last month. We don't talk about the jobs that we lost. The net of it all…

Talk show host Buddy Cianci says Obama’s health care plan dictates a 3.8 percent tax on home sales

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. July 15, 2012

President Obama’s health care law says "when you sell your house now you have to pay a 3.8 percent tax."

Granite State has lost jobs during the recession like the rest of the U.S., just not that many

By Jake Berry July 13, 2012

"There are 60,000 fewer jobs today in this state than we had in 2008."

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