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Pants on Fire!

Inflaming inboxes for years

Says President Barack Obama’s finance team is recommending a "1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution."

Steve Rothman

Steve Rothman

Pants on Fire!

A wink and a smile

Says in regard to providing "more tax cuts for the rich," Bill Pascrell said, "Republicans had great ideas. I liked some of their ideas."

Barbara Buono

Barbara Buono

Mostly False

Try 20, not 8

Says in March New Jersey was "one of only eight states in the nation to lose jobs" and "the state with the highest loss of jobs in the nation."

Frank Lautenberg

Frank Lautenberg

Half-True

Still four years away

"Just remember this: the president's health care bill put 30 million people on health care rolls that weren't there before."

Lou Greenwald

Lou Greenwald

True

We're number one

New Jersey has "the highest property taxes in the nation and not by a little. They are the highest property taxes in the nation, more than double the national average."

Chris Christie

Chris Christie

True

The big 4-0 in November

"We are coming up on our 40th anniversary of electing a Republican to the United States Senate. 1972 was the last time New Jersey sent a Republican to the United States Senate."

Nia Gill

Nia Gill

True

Not since Helen Meyner in the late 70s

"There has not been a Democratic woman in Congress from New Jersey in almost four decades."

Anthony Bucco

Anthony Bucco

Mostly False

GOP majority gets blame too

Says "an unchecked Democratic Majority in Trenton" is responsible for "years of diversions" from the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund.

Loretta Weinberg

Loretta Weinberg

Mostly False

Budget doesn't address issue

Says Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal "would effectively double the interest paid out on existing and future student loans."

Chain e-mail

Chain e-mail

Mostly False

Not that much debt yet

Says President Barack Obama "added" $6.5 trillion to the national debt in his first term, more than the $6.3 trillion added by the previous 43 presidents combined.

Frank Lautenberg

Frank Lautenberg

True

Unless states restrict it

Says "in our gun laws we’re allowing domestic abusers to sidestep this ban on getting a gun. The loophole allows a convicted abuser to walk into a gun show and walk out with a gun, no questions asked."

Barbara Buono

Barbara Buono

True

A last place finish

"Wisconsin lost more jobs over the past 12 months than any other state."

Steve Rothman

Steve Rothman

Mostly False

A yes vote, then 8 no votes

Says "Bill Pascrell voted to eliminate all estate taxes for billionaires, and I voted no."

Joseph Kyrillos

Joseph Kyrillos

False

Never say ‘never’

"In my years in the State Legislature, I have never voted for a tax increase."

R2RMerge

R2RMerge

False

For investment overall, not just the merger

Says George Norcross said the "TAKEOVER OF RUTGER$ CAMDEN WILL COST NEW JER$EY BILLION$."

Sheila Oliver

Sheila Oliver

False

More than $100K in 2010

Says "$57,000 is the mean [income] in our state" for a family.

John Wisniewski

John Wisniewski

True

Yes, but still paying to New York

"If you're earning under $100,000 a year and you commute to New York every day you pay more to the Port Authority in tolls than you pay to the state of New Jersey in income tax."

Raymond Bateman

Raymond Bateman

False

South of the border

Says "Cape May, Cumberland, Salem and part of Atlantic counties are all south of the Mason-Dixon line."

Jennifer Beck

Jennifer Beck

True

It was Jersey's responsibility

"The (ARC Tunnel) project was originally estimated to be $8.7 billion, and New Jersey alone was on the hook for all overruns."

BettyLou DeCroce

BettyLou DeCroce

Half-True

2 of 9 lost jobs

"While the country’s economy was battered, nine states with no income tax actually grew jobs from 2001 to 2010."

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