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Is ‘In God We Trust’ still on U.S. coins?

On the campaign trail recently, Mitt Romney brought up an issue that sounded familiar to us: the question of whether "In God We Trust" has been removed from U.S. coins.

PolitiFact looked into it.

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Has ‘In God We Trust’ been taken off U.S. coins?

On the campaign trail recently, Mitt Romney brought up an issue that sounded familiar to us: the question of whether "In God We Trust" has been removed from U.S. coins.

It's not a new claim, but now that it's emerged in the presidential campaign, we took a new look at its origins.

 

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Has ‘In God We Trust’ been taken off U.S. coins?

Mitt Romney said, "I will not take ‘God’ off our coins." But it turns out the phrase "In God We Trust" has been there all along.

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Ryan and the Simpson-Bowles Commission: the full story

In his speech accepting the vice presidential nomination, Paul Ryan blamed President Barack Obama for the failure of a presidentially appointed debt commission. But that ignored Ryan's own role.

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Will millionaires “pay a little more” under Obama’s plan?

"In the real world, an 8.8 percent reduction in after-tax income is a significant blow," said Daniel Mitchell, a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute.

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Will millionaires “pay a little more” under Obama plan?

In a new campaign ad, President Obama says millionaires will "pay a little more" under his tax plan. We crunch the numbers to see how much that would be.

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Olympians will owe $9,000 in taxes on their medals?

We fact-check a claim from Americans for Tax Reform that Olympians are taxed 35 percent on their medals.

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As Olympics open, a super PAC attack against Romney

Priorities USA Action, a super PAC supporting President Barack Obama, released an ad that uses the trappings of the Olympics to attack Mitt Romney.

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Mailbag: ‘Get out of your parents’ basement and into the real world!’

We offer readers another chance to vent about -- or praise -- our coverage of recent political statements.

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As Olympics open, a super PAC attack against Romney

A Democratic super PAC produced a snarky ad with Olympic imagery that charges Mitt Romney outsourced jobs and used offshore accounts for his personal finances. We've put two of the claims to the Truth-O-Meter.

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How does U.S. gun violence compare?

In the wake of the Aurora shootings, we fact-check some claims about gun violence in the United States.

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Romney, RNC correct about Obama golfing, jobs meetings

The RNC and Mitt Romney say that over the past six months President Barack Obama had time for fundraisers and golf, but there were no meetings of his jobs council. We check the numbers and find they are on target.

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