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Pants on Fire!

A longstanding anti-Semitic theory

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Says "the Rothschild family holds about 80 percent of the world’s total wealth" and has the ability to "literally feed, clothe and settle every man, woman and child on the planet if they wanted to."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Wednesday, January 9th, 2019

True

With debts, many Americans have zero or negative net worth

Sanders

"The three wealthiest people" own "more wealth than the bottom half of the American people."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, July 19th, 2018

Mostly False

Only in NYC

Quinn

Christine Quinn

New York state has the "second highest millionaires tax in the nation."

— PolitiFact New York on Thursday, May 31st, 2018

Mostly True

But for Tallahassee and Trenton

Casar

Says Austin has "been ranked repeatedly as one of the most, if not the most, economically segregated cities in the country."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, May 31st, 2018

Mostly False

Some yes, some no

Nixon

"Since taking office, Andrew Cuomo has given massive tax breaks to corporations and the super rich."

— PolitiFact New York on Friday, March 23rd, 2018