Tag Archives: FairTax

Whoppers of Campaign 2010

Posted on October 26, 2010

Midterm elections are an embarrassment of riches for fact-checkers — this year more than others. With Democrats fighting desperately to keep control of the House and Senate, and a torrent of money from corporations and other undisclosed …
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FairTax, Washington Senate Race and Aqua Buddha

Posted on October 22, 2010

In episode 34 of our podcast, we talk about a popular — and misleading — line of attack from Democrats about the FairTax. Plus, we look at ads in the Washington Senate race and the controversial "Aqua Buddha" ad in the Kentucky contest. [podcast]http://podcast.factcheck.org/Images/image/radio/FactCheckRadio_episode34.mp3[/podcast] For more on the stories discussed …
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Sales Tax Spin

Posted on October 20, 2010

Democrats are running misleading ads in several House and Senate races accusing Republicans of supporting a “23 percent national sales tax.” The ads fail to mention that the proposed tax — while controversial — is designed to replace all federal income …
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AFSCME’s Misleading Tax Attack

Posted on August 12, 2010

AFSCME, the big labor union, is running a misleading ad attacking one of the GOP’s premier House candidates. In an attempt to protect a vulnerable freshman Democrat, Rep. John Boccieri of Ohio, AFSCME badly misrepresents his Republican challenger’s stance on taxation. AFSCME’s ad …
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The Whoppers of 2007

Posted on December 30, 2007

Summary The year 2007 wasn’t a good one for political honesty. Though not even technically an election year, it provided a bumper crop of falsehoods and distortions nonetheless. Presidential candidates kept us busy: Republican Rudy Giuliani made false claims over and over about his record as mayor of New York, …
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Unspinning the FairTax

Posted on May 31, 2007 , Updated on June 14, 2007 , Corrected on May 31, 2007

Summary In our recent article on the second GOP debate, we called out Gov. Mike Huckabee as well as Reps. Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter for their support of the FairTax. We wrote that the bipartisan Advisory Panel on Tax Reform had “calculated that a sales tax would have to …
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GOP Candidates Debate, Round 2

Posted on May 16, 2007 , Corrected on May 17, 2007

Summary Claims, facts and figures flew at the second GOP presidential debate of 2008. Not all were true. For example: Mitt Romney claimed he didn’t raise taxes when he was governor of Massachusetts, failing to note that he increased government fees by hundreds of millions of dollars and shifted some …
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