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Ann Wagner
stated on August 27, 2018 in a tweet:
“Since passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Walmart ‘increased their starting wage to $11/hr & has given about $400 million in bonuses.'”
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By Hannah Archambault, Matthew Hall • October 5, 2018
Scott Walker
stated on May 31, 2018 in a tweet:
“Since taking office, we have enacted more than $8 billion in cumulative tax relief.”  
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By Tom Kertscher • June 22, 2018
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 30, 2018 in a tweet:
“You know what Amazon paid in federal income taxes last year? Zero.”
True
By Manuela Tobias • May 3, 2018
Marc Molinaro
stated on April 2, 2018 in a conversation with reporters:
New York has “among the highest tax burdens of any state in the nation”
True
By Dan Clark • April 12, 2018
Robert Mujica
stated on January 18, 2018 in a radio interview:
“70 percent of the income tax that the state collects happens to come from Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk and New York City”
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By Dan Clark • February 1, 2018
Daniel Biss
stated on November 27, 2017 in a tweet:
These guys are now pretty much living up to the @BruceRauner standard. And falling dismally short of the @MittRomney standard. Even Romney released his full tax returns.
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By Matt Dietrich • December 4, 2017
Mark Pocan
stated on October 18, 2017 in an interview:
What Republicans call the “death tax” is the estate tax “on the ultra wealthy” which, in 2016, was paid by only “two out of every 1,000 people.”  
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By Tom Kertscher • October 27, 2017
Roy Blunt
stated on September 8, 2017 in a tweet:
“Our tax code has nearly doubled since 1985.”
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By Katelyn Brown • October 17, 2017
Illinois Policy Institute
stated on August 3, 2017 in a tweet:
The new tax will make soda sold in Chicago among the most expensive in the country.
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By Matt Dietrich • August 7, 2017
John Faso
stated on July 15, 2017 in an article in the Times Herald-Record:
“We now have about one-third of New York’s population on Medicaid.”
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By Dan Clark • July 21, 2017
Scott Walker
stated on May 17, 2017 in a radio interview:
Tax cuts approved and those proposed in his state budget “will exceed $8 billion by the time the budget is done.”  
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By Alan Hovorka • July 12, 2017
Donald Trump
stated on May 11, 2017 in an interview with 'The Economist':
The federal tax code includes “deductions for birds flying across America.”
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By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2017
Rana Foroohar
stated on April 26, 2017 in a CNN interview:
“There’s no real evidence in the last 20 years that” growth from tax cuts has made up lost revenue.
True
By John Kruzel • April 28, 2017
Ron Johnson
stated on March 21, 2017 in an interview:
The GOP’s Obamacare replacement would reduce subsidies that help lower-income people buy health insurance, but also “expand the entitlement” by giving subsidies to higher-income people “that Obamacare never helped.”
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By Tom Kertscher • March 23, 2017
Donna Howard
stated on February 27, 2017 in a Facebook Live interview with Austin bureau reporters for the Dallas Morning News:
Says condoms “used to be tax-exempt here in Texas.”
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By W. Gardner Selby • March 10, 2017
Rick Scott
stated on March 7, 2017 in his State of the State speech:
“Florida is now the only state in the nation to tax commercial leases.”
True
By Allison Graves • March 8, 2017
Nancy Pelosi
stated on March 5, 2017 in an interview with CNN's "State of the Union":
Says 70 percent of benefits in Donald Trump’s proposal for child care “go to the people making over $100,000 a year.”
True
By Gabrielle Healy • March 8, 2017
Scott Walker
stated on January 10, 2017 in In a speech:
Wisconsin property taxes, as a percentage of personal income, “are the lowest that they’ve been since the end of World War II.”
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By Tom Kertscher • January 13, 2017
Robert Astorino
stated on January 10, 2017 in a press release:
“I have never once raised the county tax levy — not for seven straight years.”
True
By Dan Clark • January 11, 2017
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 4, 2016 in a campaign rally:
Under Donald Trump’s tax plan, “51 percent of single parents would see their taxes go up.”  
True
By Linda Qiu • November 6, 2016
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