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Search results for "Families can't pay the bills because billionaires have jacked up prices"

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Jack Conway stated on September 28, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
Rand Paul "wants us to pay $2,000 just to get Medicare."
By Louis Jacobson• October 8, 2010
Barack Obama stated on December 06, 2011 in a speech in Osawatomie, Kan.:
"Some billionaires have a tax rate as low as 1 percent."
By Louis Jacobson• December 8, 2011
Donald Trump stated on January 20, 2016 in a town hall in Norwalk, Iowa:
"When they say Mexico can't pay for the wall, I say of course they can. We have a trade deficit with Mexico that's unbelievably big. ... It's billions and billions of dollars -- far more than what we're talking about for the wall."
By Amy Sherman• January 26, 2016
Tammy Baldwin stated on March 16, 2022 in Twitter:
"The price of insulin has been jacked up by Big Drug Corporations.”
By D.L. Davis• April 8, 2022
Club for Growth stated on March 17, 2016 in a political ad:
Says Donald Trump promised "to take care of everybody (through government-run healthcare and) the government's going to pay for it."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• March 21, 2016
Tom Price stated on May 07, 2017 in an interview on CNN's State of the Union:
"We have got 20 million folks out there across this land who have told the federal government, ‘Phooey, nonsense, I’m not going to participate in your program, because it doesn’t do what I need done.’ "
By Amy Sherman• May 8, 2017
Edward Markey stated on June 20, 2009 in a press release.:
Says the Congressional Budget Office estimates a cap-and-trade program would cost the average family the equivalent of "a postage stamp a day."
By Catharine Richert• June 25, 2009
Barbara Boxer stated on August 31, 2010 in an editorial board interview:
"I asked (then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) how many people had died and she did not know the answer to that question."
By Robert Farley• September 3, 2010
Viral image stated on October 23, 2019 in a Facebook post:
"The 550 U.S. billionaires together are worth $2.5 trillion. If we confiscated 100% of their wealth, we'd raise enough to run the federal government for less than eight months."
By Tom Kertscher• November 2, 2021
AFSCME stated on October 07, 2020 in a Facebook ad:
Says "David Schweikert took over $120,000 from the drug industry and voted against legislation to lower prescription drug prices."
By Jon Greenberg• October 19, 2020
Jack Reed stated on May 01, 2014 in Senate floor speeches and during a news conference:
The Senate proposal to restore emergency unemployment benefits for five months was "fully paid for."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• June 22, 2014
Bill Maher stated on October 02, 2015 in an episode of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
"15 years ago, cancer drugs cost an average of $10,000 a year. Now it’s $10,000 a month."
By Lauren Carroll• December 2, 2015
New Jersey Democratic State Committee stated on August 01, 2012 in a news release:
"(The Tax Policy Center) found that Romney would raise taxes on the average middle class family by $2,000 to pay for $5 trillion in tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires."
By Bill Wichert• August 12, 2012
Elizabeth Warren stated on July 25, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic convention:
"Donald Trump said he was excited for the 2008 housing crash that devastated millions of American families, because he thought it would help him scoop up more real estate on the cheap."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• July 26, 2016
Newt Gingrich stated on August 09, 2009 in an interview with This Week.:
In every committee when the health care bill was considered, Democrats voted against an amendment that would require members of Congress and their staff to take the government-run public option as their health care plan.
By Catharine Richert• August 10, 2009
Barack Obama stated on August 11, 2009 in a town hall meeting.:
"I just want to assure [you] we're not talking about cutting Medicare benefits."
By Catharine Richert• August 14, 2009
David Gura stated on October 27, 2021 in a tweet:
“FUN FACT: West Virginia is home to zero billionaires.”
By Emily Zirkelbach• November 9, 2021
Workers' Voice stated on August 08, 2012 in an online ad:
Says Josh Mandel bet against Ohio families
By Stephen Koff• August 14, 2012
Americans for Prosperity: Florida stated on September 12, 2016 in a campaign mailer:
Says "Patrick Murphy’s ‘Pay More’ energy agenda means you could pay another $500 a year for your utility bills!"
By Joshua Gillin• September 20, 2016
Johnny Isakson stated on August 23, 2011 in a speech before the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce:
The premiums on Medicare’s prescription drug program have fallen almost every year since it began.
By Willoughby Mariano• September 13, 2011

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By Bill McCarthy• December 30, 2019

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Conservative group claims Democrat-backed Medicare bill would “increase Medicare premiums”

By Bill Wichert• August 27, 2011

How many times has Jim Justice been sued for not paying his bills?

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