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Tom Price stated on July 24, 2011 in :

"The U.S. won't default, because default means that you don't pay your creditors. And it takes about 10 percent of the money that's coming in right now" to pay interest to bondholders.

By Louis Jacobson, Willoughby Mariano• July 26, 2011

Jessica King stated on July 12, 2011 in :

Says state Sen. Randy Hopper, R-Fond du Lac, unlike typical taxpayers, "didn’t pay taxes"

By Tom Kertscher• July 26, 2011

Debbie Wasserman Schultz stated on July 19, 2011 in :

"The nonpartisan CBO, Congressional Budget Office, has said that the No. 1 policy decision that brought us to the need to prevent the nation from defaulting on our debt for the first time in history were the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003."

By Therese Bottomly• July 25, 2011

Chris Christie stated on July 12, 2011 in :

Says the state budget "doubled property tax credits for seniors and middle class New Jerseyans" and had "no tax increases for any New Jersey family for the second year in a row."

By Erin O'Neill, Bill Wichert• July 24, 2011

Dominick Marino stated on June 06, 2011 in :

"The firefighter and police officer pension system is not headed for bankruptcy, far from it. That’s because New Jersey first responders -- fire fighters and police officers -- have never missed making payments to the retirement system."

By Caryn Shinske• July 22, 2011

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