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FactChecking Paul

Posted on May 20, 2011

Up next in our look at past claims made by the 2012 presidential candidates: Rep. Ron Paul. No stranger to presidential campaigns, the Texas Republican has made his share of factual flubs. Paul declared his 2012 candidacy May 13. He falsely claimed last December that the estate tax "especially harms …
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IRS and the Health Care Law, Part II

Posted on February 18, 2011 , Updated on Feb. 23, 2011

Q: Is the IRS seeking more than 1,000 new workers to administer the new health care law? A: Yes. But many of them will be needed to deliver tax credits, not dun taxpayers. IRS says it needs 291 agents to enforce the law, including 193 to "ensure accurate delivery of …
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More Malarkey About Health Care

Posted on April 19, 2010

We’ve seldom seen a piece of legislation so widely misrepresented, and misunderstood, as the new health care law. We stopped counting the number of articles and items we turned out on the subject after the total reached 100. Some of that is understandable. The debate went on for more than …
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IRS Agents, Health Care and Student Loans

Posted on April 2, 2010

In Episode 5 of our podcast, we look into Republican claims that the new health care law will require the IRS to hire 16,500 agents — and GOP Rep. Ron Paul’s assertion that they’d all be carrying guns. We also discuss health care ads from liberals and conservatives, and claims …
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IRS Expansion

Posted on March 30, 2010 , Updated on Feb. 22, 2011

Q: Will the IRS hire 16,500 new agents to enforce the health care law? A: No. The law requires the IRS mostly to hand out tax credits, not collect penalties. The claim of 16,500 new agents stems from a partisan analysis based on guesswork and false assumptions, and compounded by …
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Enforcing the Individual Mandate

Posted on January 22, 2010

Q: How does health care legislation propose to enforce the individual mandate? A: The Internal Revenue Service would verify whether individuals meet the requirement to have health insurance, and collect a tax if they don’t.

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Taxing the Stimulus?

Posted on March 4, 2008 , Updated on March 12, 2008

Q: Is the economic stimulus payment taxable? A: No.

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