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The Latest from PolitiFact New Jersey
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
A scorecard separating fact from fiction
Says Jon Runyan voted to "end programs to aid homeless veterans."
Says New Jersey’s prison system is "61 percent African-American even though our state is just 13 percent black."
Says "as we sit right now, Medicare, if we do nothing, will be gone in eight years, if we do nothing to it."
"New Jersey has the largest transit system in the entire country."
Says President Barack Obama’s finance team is recommending a "1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution."
Says in regard to providing "more tax cuts for the rich," Bill Pascrell said, "Republicans had great ideas. I liked some of their ideas."
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."
"Just remember this: the president's health care bill put 30 million people on health care rolls that weren't there before."
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."
"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."
"There has not been a Democratic woman in Congress from New Jersey in almost four decades."
Says "an unchecked Democratic Majority in Trenton" is responsible for "years of diversions" from the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund.
Says Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal "would effectively double the interest paid out on existing and future student loans."
Says President Barack Obama "added" $6.5 trillion to the national debt in his first term, more than the $6.3 trillion added by the previous 43 presidents combined.
Says "in our gun laws we’re allowing domestic abusers to sidestep this ban on getting a gun. The loophole allows a convicted abuser to walk into a gun show and walk out with a gun, no questions asked."
"Wisconsin lost more jobs over the past 12 months than any other state."
Says "Bill Pascrell voted to eliminate all estate taxes for billionaires, and I voted no."
"In my years in the State Legislature, I have never voted for a tax increase."
Says George Norcross said the "TAKEOVER OF RUTGER$ CAMDEN WILL COST NEW JER$EY BILLION$."
Says "$57,000 is the mean [income] in our state" for a family.
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When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, "we didn’t just slow the rate of growth of our government, we actually cut it."
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