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Carlos Gimenez
stated on April 10, 2013 in a county commission meeting:
The Miami Dolphins “are the only NFL team in the entire nation that pays property taxes.”
False
By Amy Sherman • April 22, 2013
Virginia Society for Human Life
stated on April 3, 2013 in a statement.:
Under Obamacare, Virginia taxpayers would have been “forced to pay for abortions” if the General Assembly had not recently intervened.  
False
By Sean Gorman • April 15, 2013
Lon Burnam
stated on March 4, 2013 in a press release:
Says rejecting federal aid to expand Medicaid in Texas will “send $9 billion in federal taxes paid by Texans to other states to insure their working poor.”
False
By Sue Owen • April 12, 2013
Bruce Hanna
stated on March 6, 2013 in a floor speech:
Says, “The Democrats’ proposed budget is also balanced by using more in new tax revenue than in total PERS reform or savings.”
False
By Janie Har • March 23, 2013
Paul Ryan
stated on March 3, 2013 in an interview:
The fiscal cliff agreement was “the largest tax increase in history.”  
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 15, 2013
Rick Scott
stated on March 5, 2013 in his State of the State speech:
A “legacy of taxing and borrowing … crippled the economy we inherited two years ago.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 5, 2013
Grover Norquist
stated on February 7, 2013 in a radio interview.:
In Virginia “there has been a billion dollars in surplus over the last three years. The legislature has spent less than 1 percent of that on roads.”
False
By Sean Gorman • February 18, 2013
Richard Saslaw
stated on January 9, 2013 in an interview:
“One-third of the gasoline is purchased by out-of-state people” in Virginia
False
By Nancy Madsen • February 5, 2013
John Boehner
stated on November 9, 2012 in a news conference:
“The problem with raising tax rates on the wealthiest Americans is that more than half of them are small business owners.”
False
By Tom Feran • January 3, 2013
Barack Obama
stated on December 5, 2012 in a report:
“If the House of Representatives fails to extend the middle-class tax cuts, 400,000 middle-class Rhode Island families will see their federal income taxes increase.”
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 16, 2012
Mike White
stated on October 23, 2012 in an email to employees:
Says that with President Obama’s re-election, state and federal income tax rates for some taxpayers will rise “to roughly 65 percent.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • November 15, 2012
Clayton County Government
stated on November 2, 2012 in a web post:
“Clayton County offers the lowest operating millage rate in Metro Atlanta.”
False
By Eric Stirgus • November 14, 2012
Connie Mack
stated on October 26, 2012 in a fundraising email:
“Bill Nelson actually voted in favor of higher taxes 272 times.”
False
By Amy Sherman • November 1, 2012
Connie Mack
stated on October 17, 2012 in in a debate in Davie, Fla.:
“Bill Nelson voted for higher taxes 150 times.”
False
By Amy Sherman • October 18, 2012
Tommy Thompson
stated on October 27, 2012 in an interview:
Says U.S. Senate opponent Tammy Baldwin supported a federal budget “that spent trillions — not billions, trillions — more money than the Obama budget.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • October 5, 2012
Barack Obama
stated on October 3, 2012 in the first presidential debate in Denver:
“Under Gov. Romney’s definition … Donald Trump is a small business.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 4, 2012
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 22, 2012 in a campaign email:
Says 7,000 millionaires “gamed the system to pay no income taxes.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • September 30, 2012
John Burzichelli
stated on September 19, 2012 in an interview with NJToday:
Says “the governor is going around the state talking about [how] we should fund an income tax cut” that benefits higher income earners and not lower income earners
False
By Erin O'Neill • September 24, 2012
George Allen
stated on September 20, 2012 in a news release.:
“Tim Kaine announced he wants to raise taxes on everyone.”
False
By Nancy Madsen • September 24, 2012
Mitt Romney
stated on May 17, 2012 in a surreptitiously recorded speech to donors at a fundraiser:
The “48, 49 percent” that supports President Barack Obama are “people who pay no income tax.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2012
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