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Tag Archives: Barack Obama
Obama’s Teacher Tax Whopper
Posted on September 28, 2011
President Obama’s claim that he pays a lower tax rate than a teacher making $50,000 a year isn’t true. A single taxpayer with $50,000 of income would have paid 11.9 percent in federal income taxes for 2010, while the Obamas paid more than twice that rate — 25.3 percent (and …
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Cherry-picking on Regulation
Posted on September 22, 2011
Q: Did Bush propose more costly regulations in his last two years than Obama did in his first two years? A: Yes. But Obama’s regulations are far more costly than those of Bush’s first two years, and the yearly average is higher than that of the Bush administration.
Obama’s Jobs Act ‘Bipartisan’? Not Entirely
Posted on September 12, 2011
In his jobs speech to the nation on Sept. 8, President Barack Obama overstated his case for bipartisan support for each "kind of" proposal in his new jobs stimulus bill. While it's true there is much common ground in Obama's proposal, several of the planks in the plan, called the …
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FactChecking the Reagan Debate
Posted on September 8, 2011 , Corrected on September 15, 2011
The GOP candidates took some liberties when discussing jobs, Social Security, immigration, health care and other issues during the presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Library: Perry exaggerated when he called Social Security a “Ponzi scheme” that won’t …
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Obama’s Canadian-American Bus
Posted on August 25, 2011
Q: Was President Obama's tour bus made in Canada? A: The shell of the $1.1 million bus came from Canada, but it was converted for the Secret Service by a company in Tennessee.
Teachers Paid ‘On Par with Doctors’?
Posted on August 19, 2011
President Obama falsely claimed teachers are paid "on par" with doctors in “most countries" with high test scores. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has data that allowed us to compare 16 member countries in all three categories: student test scores, teachers' pay and general practitioners' pay. None of …
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Front Group Claims EPA Threatens 7 Million Jobs
Posted on August 18, 2011 , Updated on Sept. 2, 2011
Chemical and oil lobbies were behind an ad that dogged Obama's Midwestern bus tour, attacking anti-smog regulations proposed by the administration. Their trade groups are among the business organizations backing a front group calling itself the "Coalition for American Jobs," which sponsored the ad. The TV spot accused the president …
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Top 20 White House Raises
Posted on August 4, 2011
Q: Is a chart claiming to show the "top 20 raises" to White House staffers accurate? A: It's misleading. The salary increases for 19 of the 21 employees listed resulted from promotions. Average pay for White House staff actually declined.
Romney’s Windy Web Video
Posted on August 3, 2011
A Mitt Romney online video overstates the growth of Chicago's unemployment rate under President Obama. The ad says that Chicago's unemployment is up 48 percent, which is true since November 2008. But Obama didn't take office until Jan. 20, 2009, and the city's unemployment rate has increased 26.7 percent since …
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Bachmann’s Histrionics on Health Care
Posted on August 2, 2011
Michele Bachmann incorrectly claimed the new health care law is "the largest spending and entitlement program ever passed in our nation's history." The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the health care provisions of the law will cost roughly $169 billion in fiscal year 2016, the first year of full …
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