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Insurers get the money even if they don't get to keep it all
Because of the health care law, "by 2017, we will be funneling over $100 billion annually to private insurance companies."
— PunditFact on Friday, January 3rd, 2014
Not any names you've heard of
"Not a single banker, a CEO from Wall Street, anyone from corporate America — nobody, (there was) not one arrest of any of these people who brought down the economy in 2008."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, October 7th, 2011
Trend predates the Gipper
During the Reagan era, while productivity increased, "wages for working people remained frozen."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Top rate, yes; but overall rate fell just 11 percent
During the Reagan era, "the richest Americans had their top income tax rate cut in half."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Marginal tax rate for the richest was 90 percent in the 1950s
In the 1950s, "A lot of people got rich — and they had to pay a top tax rate of 90 percent."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Correct, depending on what formula you use
"The richest 1 percent have more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, October 1st, 2009