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"(Ronald Reagan) raised taxes a billion dollars in his first year as governor of California."
An anonymous e-mail says that Hillary Clinton advocates communism.
"I get the most money from active duty officers and military personnel."
"People were hopeless. Sixty percent of the population, 70 percent of the population wanted to live somewhere else. . . . By the time I left, 70 percent wanted to stay."
"Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change."
"Our tax code is so complicated it extracts $140 billion in extra tax preparation costs every year - one thousand dollars for every American family."
In 2006, Arizona had four ballot issues that were "very tough on illegal immigration... Forty-seven percent of the Hispanics in Arizona voted for them."
"The Iraq Study Group reported that (Saddam Hussein) had designs on reviving his nuclear program."
"The reality is, with a $2 trillion-a-year health care budget, we're spending more on health care, nearly 17 percent of our gross domestic product, versus 3.8 percent of GDP on the entire military budget."
Recent stories from John Martin
Gravel: I'm not dead yetIn an exclusive interview with PolitiFact, the former Alaska senator confirms his status in the presidential campaign.
Commie e-mail quiz gets an FAn anonymous e-mail makes the case that Sen. Clinton holds the same beliefs as Karl Marx and Joseph Stalin by using communist-sounding quotes. But the e-mail presents her statements out of context or distorts them.
Who made Big Apple sweeter?Rudy Giuliani presided over an economic rebound in New York City, but his claims ignore the nation's economic expansion. And he doesn't mention the less rosy details of his tenure.
McCain overbids on eBayThe Republicans clashed on taxes, the economy and Iraq during a debate in Dearborn, Mich. They fumbled a few facts along the way.
Giuliani says a little too much about Democrats and taxesDemocrats and taxes make an easy target for a Republican, but Giuliani can't quite justify his claim for how high taxes would go.
John Martin joined the St. Petersburg Times as a news researcher in 1995. He served as Times research editor for three years before returning to research full time in 2006. Currently, he is based in the Times' Tampa bureau.
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