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American Action Network
stated on November 7, 2017 in an ad:
Says the Republican tax plan “helps families” like one in which a woman lost her job and then lost her life savings fighting her husband’s cancer.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 13, 2017
Dianne Feinstein
stated on November 6, 2017 in a tweet:
“Teachers spend $1.6 BILLION per year on school supplies. The Republican tax bill ELIMINATES their ability to deduct those expenses.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 7, 2017
Drew Ferguson
stated on November 5, 2017 in an email to a constituent:
Under the House Republican tax proposal, “the average family of four earning median income ($59,000/year) will receive an additional $1,182 in their pocket every year.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 6, 2017
Paul Ryan
stated on November 3, 2017 in a speech:
“With this plan, the typical family of four will save $1,182 a year on their taxes.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 3, 2017
Freedom Partners
stated on October 26, 2017 in TV ads:
“Tammy Baldwin voted for $5 trillion in higher taxes.”  
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By Tom Kertscher • November 1, 2017
James Lankford
stated on October 22, 2017 in an interview on "Face the Nation":
“For the last 10 years, our economy has grown at less than 2 percent on average every single year for 10 years. We have not had a decade like that in a century in America.”  
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By Jon Greenberg • October 31, 2017
Lloyd Doggett
stated on September 30, 2017 in House floor remarks:
Says “80 percent of the tax breaks in” President Donald Trump’s tax-cut “proposal go to the top 1 percent, that is, people making more than $730,000 a year.”
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 20, 2017
Charles Schumer
stated on October 4, 2017 in a Senate floor speech:
“The Republicans are proposing to pay for their giant tax cut to the rich by gutting Medicare and Medicaid.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2017
Lamar Smith
stated on September 18, 2017 in a letter to a constituent :
“The average tax bill for Americans in 2016 was a 41 percent increase from 2013.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2017
Andy Gronik
stated on September 5, 2017 in an op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin is “guaranteeing Foxconn almost $3 billion, but Foxconn is not contractually guaranteeing how many full-time employees it will hire, for how long and at what pay.”
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • September 12, 2017
Jennifer Shilling
stated on August 14, 2017 in a press release:
“Foxconn tax break could exceed $1 million per job.”  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • August 16, 2017
One Wisconsin Now
stated on August 7, 2017 in a tweet:
Wisconsin’s $3 billion incentive offer to Foxconn is “the largest gift ever by a state to a foreign company.”
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • August 15, 2017
Scott Wagner
stated on August 2, 2017 in a campaign video.:
Eighty percent of the school tax bills in the state of Pennsylvania went up over last year.
Half-True
By Anna Orso • August 9, 2017
Paul Mango
stated on July 24, 2017 in a Facebook post:
“As Governor, Wolf has already proposed more than $8B in tax increases.”
Half-True
By Sarah Anne Hughes • August 2, 2017
One Wisconsin Now
stated on July 28, 2017 in a blog post:
Says Scott Walker “wants state taxpayers to dole out up to $250 million annually in incentives” to Foxconn “to lure a manufacturing plant to Wisconsin that he claims will generate $181 million in tax revenue.”  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • August 2, 2017
Raymond Walter
stated on June 23, 2017 in a press release:
“Western New Yorkers pay some of the highest property taxes in the state.”
Half-True
By Dan Clark • July 7, 2017
Don Huffines
stated on February 27, 2017 in responding to a question about private school vouchers:
“Sixty-two percent of all (Texas) property taxes are paid by businesses.”    
Half-True
By Forrest Milburn • May 5, 2017
Center for American Progress Action Fund
stated on April 16, 2017 in the website IsTrumpAtMarALago.org:
“A trip to Mar-a-Lago costs taxpayers approximately $3.6 million, according to a Government Accountability Office report.”
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By Lauren Carroll • April 18, 2017
David Price
stated on March 22, 2017 in a report from his Congressional office:
“Under the Republican health care repeal proposal North Carolina faces the 2nd highest premium increase in the nation. North Carolina residents will face an average cost increase of over $7,500.”
Half-True
By Will Doran • March 24, 2017
Mark Pocan
stated on March 20, 2017 in a video:
Under “Trumpcare,” the Republican replacement for Obamacare, “$600 billion worth of tax breaks will go to the wealthiest in this country.”   
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • March 21, 2017
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