Fact Check Posts – Page 4

Jon Huntsman
stated on July 4, 2011 in a house party in Belmont, N.H. :

Says that when he was governor of Utah, he worked with the state Legislature to create a flat tax that "cut income taxes by 30 percent."

By Kevin Landrigan, Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2011

Rick Santorum
stated on July 18, 2011 in a house party in Henniker, N.H.:

In Europe, "church attendance rates (are) in the single digits" because churches are supported by taxes.

By Josh Rogers • July 27, 2011

Ron Paul
stated on July 16, 2011 in an interview with the 'Telegraph':

"When the Republicans were in charge, they actually expanded government health care with the prescription drug program."

By Jake Berry • July 25, 2011

Mitt Romney
stated on July 5, 2011 in a Town Hall in Wolfeboro, N.H.:

"Federal law requires that hospitals treat people whether or not they can pay. So someone (who) doesn’t have health insurance -- they can go to the hospital and get free care."

By Dan Gorenstein • July 22, 2011

Newt Gingrich
stated on June 13, 2011 in at a meeting arranged by the Small Business Caucus at the Kimball Jenkins House in Concord, N.H.:

Says the new Dodd-Frank financial law requires a 20 percent down payment to buy a house.

By Jon Greenberg • July 21, 2011

Bernie Sanders
stated on July 18, 2011 in a tweet:

"Since 2000, nearly 12 million Americans have slipped out of the middle class and into poverty."

By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2011

Mitt Romney
stated on July 5, 2011 in a town hall in Wolfeboro, N.H.:

During his first year, President Obama said he "was going to visit Kim Jong-ll and Ahmadinejad and Assad and Chavez – the worst actors in the world."

By Josh Rogers • July 20, 2011

Gary Johnson
stated on July 14, 2011 in an interview with the 'New Hampshire Business Review":

"New Mexico is the second Hollywood" because of tax incentives for the film industry.

By John Gregg • July 15, 2011

Timothy Geithner
stated on June 24, 2011 in a speech at Dartmouth College:

For people in the top 1 percent for income, "your effective tax burden is in the low 20s, the lowest it’s been in decades and decades and decades -- lower than somebody who might make substantially less money."

By Jeffrey Good • July 12, 2011

New Hampshire Democratic Party
stated on June 27, 2011 in a statement by state Democratic chairman Ray Buckley in a call with reporters:

"Mitt Romney is the first Massachusetts politician to run for president and not win the New Hampshire primary in a generation."

By Jake Berry • July 10, 2011

Mitt Romney
stated on June 27, 2011 in a roundtable with small business leaders in Salem, N.H.:

By the end of his first term, President Obama will have added as much debt as all the prior 43 presidents combined.

By Maryalice Gill • July 10, 2011

Richard Swett
stated on June 21, 2011 in a conference call with reporters.:

Says that in 2009, Jon Huntsman "said that the Recovery Act wasn't large enough and as governor he asked for $14.4 billion in federal stimulus funds. Now he's saying that he never supported it."

By Jake Berry • July 3, 2011

Yard sign
stated on June 15, 2011 in a yard on Route 12 near Keene, N.H.:

Says President Obama "has fired more cruise missiles than all other Peace Prize winners combined."

By John Gregg • June 30, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on June 26, 2011 in CBS' Face the Nation:

"Under Barack Obama the last two years, the number of federal limousines for bureaucrats has increased 73 percent."

June 27, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on June 1, 2011 in an interview on WKXL-AM in Concord, N.H.:

"If you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29 percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obama's policies have led to groceries going up 29 percent."

By Jake Berry • June 27, 2011

Jay Carney
stated on June 14, 2011 in a comment to reporters aboard Air Force One:

In the Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire, none of the candidates mentioned the "middle class" or "education."

By Maryalice Gill • June 24, 2011

Tim Pawlenty
stated on June 10, 2011 in an interview WKXL-AM.:

Says President Barack Obama promised he would cut the deficit in half, but instead will at least double it.

By Gregory Trotter • June 24, 2011

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