Statements about Taxes

Glen Sturtevant

Dan Gecker voted to "double vehicle registration fees, costing (Chesterfield) county residents over $6 million annually."

— Virginia

Gerry Connolly

"It's estimated we leave somewhere north of $350 billion a year - that's billion - a year on the table uncollected because IRS doesn't have the resources."

— Virginia

Tom Barrett

Every general City of Milwaukee employee "pays toward his or her pension, but approximately 88 percent of our police officers and firefighters do not."  

— Wisconsin

Jeb Bush

The tax policies of George W. Bush "created a dynamic effect of high growth."

— National

Stephen Colbert

Says Ronald Reagan "reversed his world’s ‘largest tax cut’ and raised taxes when revenues did not match the expectations."

— PunditFact

Tammy Baldwin

"The pope and Donald Trump and Tammy Baldwin all agree" on eliminating the "carried-interest" tax break.  

— Wisconsin

Hillary Clinton

Says Scott Walker rejected legislation to make college loan payments tax deductible and the result was "to raise taxes on students."

— Wisconsin

E. Frank Stephenson

"Contrary to media reports, Georgia’s gas tax change led to no price increase at the pump."

— Georgia

Jeb Bush

"Trump proposed enacting the largest tax increase in American history."  

— Florida

National Republican Senatorial Committee

Says Russ Feingold cast the "deciding vote" for the "largest tax increase" in history

— Wisconsin

Donald Trump

"We’re the most highly taxed nation in the world."

— National

Scott Walker

"By the end of this budget I'm in right now, taxes will have been cut $4.7 billion in my state." 

— Wisconsin

Americans for Prosperity

Gov. Maggie Hassan’s budget proposal "raises taxes on small businesses and increases taxes and fees by $100 million."   

— New Hampshire

Bobby Jindal

Says Scott Walker's plan to replace Obamacare "is a new entitlement" program for "every single American human being from the time they are born right up until they grow old and become eligible for Medicare."   

— Wisconsin

Jim Webb

"We did not even have a federal income tax in this country until 1913."

— Virginia

Donald Trump

"The annual cost of free tax credits alone paid to illegal immigrants quadrupled to $4.2 billion in 2011."

— National

Scott Walker

Wisconsin’s "rainy day fund" is "165 times bigger than when we first took office."

— Wisconsin

Georgia Department of Economic Development

Film and television productions generated a $6 billion economic impact for Georgia’s economy in the most recent fiscal year.  

— Georgia

Facebook posts

Say President George W. Bush " ‘borrowed’ $1.37 trillion of Social Security surplus revenue to pay for his tax cuts for the rich and his war in Iraq and never paid it back."

— National

Donald Trump

Under Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin "projected a $1 billion (budget) surplus and it turns out to be a deficit of $2.2 billion."

— Wisconsin