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Quentin Fulks
stated on February 25, 2020 in a TV interview:
Says California has a top income tax rate of 13.3% “and people aren’t leaving.”
Half-True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • March 1, 2020
Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 19, 2020 in the Democratic debate in Nevada:
The budget hole in Bernie Sanders’ plans “is bigger than the size of the entire economy of the United States.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 20, 2020
Veronica Escobar
stated on February 4, 2020 in a speech:
“The president has exploded the debt by more than $3 trillion — all to give billion-dollar tax cuts to the wealthiest few.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on November 23, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Up until 1913 Americans kept all of their earnings.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • January 21, 2020
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 19, 2019 in a rally in New York City:
Says Congress gave Wall Street “trillions of dollars of zero interest loans.”  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 25, 2019
Ilhan Omar
stated on October 12, 2019 in a tweet:
“The 1% is paying less in taxes than everyone else.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2019
stated on September 15, 2019 in an appearance on WISN-TV's UpFront:
Milwaukee has less taxing power than most similar cities and is the only U.S. city of 400,000 or more “that does not have a sales tax or local income tax.”
Half-True
By Eric Litke • September 18, 2019
Tom Reed
stated on August 20, 2019 in a Tweet:
After the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, “the typical American worker’s pay growing at more than 3 percent a year, record low unemployment.”
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 6, 2019
Andrew Cuomo
stated on July 19, 2019 in a radio interview:
Property taxes have “nothing to do with the state.”
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • August 10, 2019
Marianne Williamson
stated on July 28, 2019 in an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation":
“We are the only advanced industrialized nation that bases our educational funding on property taxes.”
Half-True
By Bill McCarthy • July 31, 2019
JB Pritzker
stated on May 1, 2019 in a speech:
Says states with graduated income taxes “create jobs and grow their economies faster” than Illinois.
Half-True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • May 19, 2019
Tony Evers
stated on April 3, 2019 in a tweet:
“More than a million Wisconsinites have voted to raise their own property taxes because Republicans have failed to fully fund our public schools for the past eight years.”
Half-True
By Eric Litke, Mica Soellner • May 17, 2019
David Craig
stated on April 2, 2019 in a tweet:
Says Gov. Tony Evers’ budget includes tax and fee increases even while spending “more on his way to a nearly $2 billion deficit.”
Half-True
By Mica Soellner • April 24, 2019
Wisconsin Assembly Republicans
stated on March 27, 2019 in a tweet:
“Governor Evers’ budget would increase property taxes by the largest amount in a decade”
Half-True
By Eric Litke • April 12, 2019
Sherrod Brown
stated on February 18, 2019 in an interview:
With the Trump tax law, “70 percent of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1 percent.”  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • March 5, 2019
John Nygren
stated on February 12, 2019 in a tweet:
GOP tax plan “is better for working, middle-class families” since “88% of the tax relief goes to those making $100,000 or less.”
Half-True
By Eric Litke • February 22, 2019
Joe Biden
stated on January 28, 2019 in remarks in Fort Lauderdale:
“There was virtually no new business investment” after the 2017 tax law. “The bulk was used to buy back their own stock.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 4, 2019
Gery Chico
stated on January 2, 2019 in a campaign ad:
“As chairman of the City Colleges, I cut millions in waste and we cut property taxes.”
Half-True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • January 20, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 2, 2019 in an interview on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show:
With the Republican tax law, “the rich folks got $1.5 trillion.”  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 9, 2019
Bill Daley
stated on December 6, 2018 in a TV ad:
Says he “will put a moratorium on tax hikes to keep families in their homes.”
Half-True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • December 16, 2018
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