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Statement: Sixty-two percent of all (Texas) property taxes are paid by businesses.
Speaker: don huffines
About the speaker: Don Huffines, a Dallas businessman elected in 2014 to represent Texas Senate District 16, was vice chair of the Veteran Affairs & Border Security Committee in the 2017 Legislature. He is a 2022 candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of Texas.
Date: February 27, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: education;small business;taxes
Context: responding to a question about private school vouchers
Fact-check justification: Huffines said businesses pay 62 percent of all property taxes. That figure reflects the business share of all state and local taxes including sales taxes--not property taxes alone. Most recently, in contrast, a state projection predicts businesses will account for 51 percent of what school districts raise from property taxes in 2018-19--a share in keeping with previous projections. On the high side, an unpublished TTARA estimate pegs the business share of property taxes at closer to 60 percent. We rate Huffines'  .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Fast and Furious" began under the Bush administration.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: September 20, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: guns
Context: an interview on Univision
Fact-check justification: Obama said that the Fast and Furious program began "under the previous administration." That is not the case; Fast and Furious did begin during the time Obama held office. Another similar program, called Operation Wide Receiver, did happen during the Bush administration, and a recent inspector general’s report criticized both operations as ineffective and seriously flawed. But Operation Wide Receiver is not the same thing as the Fast and Furious program. We rate Obama’s statement .
Statement: Less than 2 percent of illegals are picking crops, but 41 percent are on welfare.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 19, 2012
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: on the Internet
Fact-check justification: The Facebook post’s first , that "less than 2 percent of illegals are picking crops," is close to correct. The post’s second , that "41 percent (of illegal immigrants) are on welfare" is . Most of the "welfare" benefits in question are going to U.S. citizens who live in illegal immigrant households, not directly to illegal immigrants, and very little of it comes in cash form, which is the traditional definition of "welfare." On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: It used to be the policy of the Republican Party to get rid of the Department of Education. We finally get in charge and a chance to do something, so we double the size of the Department of Education.
Speaker: ron paul
About the speaker: Ron Paul, a Texas physician, served two stints in the U.S. House. He also was the Libertarian Party nominee for president in 1988 before later seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 and 2012. He didn't seek re-election to the House in 2012.
Date: December 12, 2007
Location: national
Topics: education
Context: Johnston, Iowa
Fact-check justification: Student loans make up the bulk of the mandatory spending, meaning that federal law compels the department to cover the cost of guaranteeing and directly making loans to students no matter how the cost fluctuates due to interest rates or the number of student applications. Most other programs — including No Child Left Behind funding — are considered discretionary, meaning the amounts get decided each year. But whether the spending is mandatory or discretionary, Paul, a libertarian who does not believe the federal government has a role to play in education policy, says it's better left to the states. Many of his Republican colleagues, as evidenced by the $73-billion increase in funding the Education Department enjoyed while they controlled Congress and the White House, apparently do not agree. Paul's statement, therefore, is .
Statement: Says "large majority" of Republicans believe Obama is a Muslim and not U.S.-born.
Speaker: gilberto hinojosa
About the speaker: Gilberto Hinojosa, a former elected judge for Cameron County in the Rio Grande Valley, won election as chairman of the Texas Democratic Party in June 2012.
Date: April 24, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;polls and public opinion
Context: the Central Texas Democratic Forum
Fact-check justification: National polls consistently show less than half -- sometimes much less than half -- of Republicans saying Obama is a Muslim or born abroad, though both falsehoods have sometimes been the No. 1 Republican responses. Regardless, there is no indication that a "large majority" of Republicans believe Obama is a Muslim or that he was born abroad. Hinojosa’s statement rates . UPDATE, 12:33 p.m., May 31, 2012 : After we published this article, a reader pointed out we’d missed a March 2010 Harris Interactive poll indicating 57 percent of Republicans believed Obama to be a Muslim. After reviewing the poll, and weighing critiques of its methodology and wording, we left this story and the statement’s  rating unchanged. See more on the Harris poll here .
Statement: Currently, half a million Floridians have Alzheimer's disease, and in less than 10 years, a 40 percent growth rate means that another 200,000 Floridians will develop this devastating illness.
Speaker: rosemary laird
About the speaker: Rosemary Laird is a geriatrician at the Centre for Senior Health in Winter Park, Fla.
Date: March 14, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: disability;health care;retirement
Context: a Florida Senate committee hearing
Fact-check justification: Laird said, "Currently, half a million Floridians have Alzheimer’s disease, and in less than 10 years, a 40 percent growth rate means that another 200,000 Floridians will develop this devastating illness." These numbers are sourced to a credible scientific paper, though it’s worth noting that the paper deals in estimates and projections, rather than hard, verifiable numbers. We rate this statement .
Statement: An image of empty grocery store shelves shows the effect of President Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" plan.
Speaker: kimberly klacik
About the speaker: Conservative commentator Kimberly Klacik, a Republican, lost her 2020 campaign for a U.S. House seat from Baltimore.
Date: October 13, 2021
Topics: corrections and updates;economy;food;pundits;facebook fact-checks;punditfact;coronavirus;ask politifact
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Even after Klacik deleted her tweet, screenshots of it remained online. PolitiFact was able to view the Facebook and Instagram posts via CrowdTangle, a social media insights tool. They were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat  news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) We rate the posts .
Statement: Photo ID is not required for those who vote by mail.
Speaker: league of women voters of texas education fund
About the speaker: Founded in 1985, the league education fund says it "provides research, publications and forums on public policy issues and disseminates information and training that helps citizens be thoughtfully engaged in the democratic process."
Date: September 23, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: elections
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: The league said: ""Photo ID is not required for those who vote by mail." That’s correct for all but first-time voters who did not present a photo ID number or the last four digits of their Social Security number when registering to vote. Such voters who seek to vote by mail can expect to be asked for a copy of their photo ID, yet even these voters do not have to do so if they are disabled, in the military or living overseas. We see nothing significant missing from this  and rate it as . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.   sources   Telephone interviews, Alicia Pierce, title, Texas Secretary of State’s office, Sept. 25, 2013   Web page, "FAQ," VoteTexas.gov, Texas Secretary of State’s office (accessed Sept. 25, 2013)   Telephone interviews, Dana DeBeauvoir, Travis County clerk, Austin, Sept. 25 and 26, 2013   Notice sent to some Travis County voters by mail, "Request for Identification" (received by email from Dana DeBeauvoir, Sept. 25, 2013) Telephone interview, Michelle Parker, assistant director, Travis County Elections Division, Sept. 25, 2013
Statement: Australian military being trained to **force vaccinate** in door-to-door attacks.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 1, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: But we found no  to corroborate the claims made in the blog post. We did find an August fact-check by AAP , which looked into an allegation that Sky News had reported something similar. The news organization found that it had "no basis in fact." We agree. We rate this  .
Statement: Ron Johnson didn't "show up" for a day of impeachment hearings.
Speaker: mark pocan
About the speaker: Mark Pocan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2nd Congressional District on Nov. 6, 2012. He is from Madison and previously served as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin state Assembly. 
Date: February 12, 2021
Location: wisconsin
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Pocan told Johnson to "do your damn job and show up," retweeting a  that Johnson wasn’t present for that day’s impeachment proceedings. The timeline is a bit odd here, since the tweet that spurred this discussion likely was referencing Feb. 11, but it was being shared and debated in many cases as if it referenced to Feb. 12. In either case the now-deleted tweet was  about Johnson. We don’t know what Johnson was doing every moment of every day, but we have photographic proof he was at the Capitol for the Feb. 11 and Feb. 12 impeachment hearings. That makes a  he didn’t "show up" . Pocan’s office provided no convincing  to the contrary. So we have a  based on a deleted tweet that conflicts with an array of photographic and other documented . That’s  and .  Or as we call it, .
Statement: United States Navy Seal Team ... helicopter was shot down yesterday in Afghanistan and they lost 30 members of the team.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 6, 2020
Topics: military;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: A social media post about a helicopter crash in Afghanistan says it happened "yesterday." But the attack was in 2011, not 2020. We rate this  .
Statement: The idea of putting up (Confederate) monuments actually didn't happen right after the Civil War. It happened during the 1960s.
Speaker: joy reid
About the speaker: Joy Reid is the host of MSNBC's The Reid Report.
Date: August 13, 2017
Topics: civil rights;history;race and ethnicity;punditfact
Context: on NBC’s Meet The Press
Fact-check justification: Reid said, "the idea of putting up (Confederate) monuments actually didn’t happen right after the Civil War. It happened during the 1960s." She added that Confederate symbols were political statements aimed at African Americans. Reid's comment that Confederate symbols are political statements aimed at African Americans is backed up by history, say experts. But she is  that Confederate monuments were built during the civil rights era. Roughly 75 percent were erected before then, according to a comprehensive study of Confederate symbolism. It was during the civil rights era that the Confederate flag gained prominence, which she later clarified. We rate her statement .
Statement: Right now, two-thirds of the U.S. Senate is composed of millionaires.
Speaker: tom nelson
About the speaker: In 2022, Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. He was the Democratic nominee running in 2016 for the U.S. House seat held by Republican Reid Ribble. He has served as the Outagamie County executive since 2011. In 2010, Nelson won the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor but lost in the general election. Nelson served in the Wisconsin Assembly from 2004 to 2010, and the last two years was the Assembly majority leader.
Date: March 7, 2021
Location: national
Topics: congress;states;wisconsin
Context: TV interview
Fact-check justification: Based on data from 2018, last year of financial disclosures available, 61 Senators had an average net worth of more than $1 million, according to one estimate. So, that is nearly two-thirds.   Many of the 10 newly elected senators also have high net worths, but an updated tally is not yet available.   Nevertheless, political experts say the Senate is likely to attract campaigns from wealthier people, contributing to the high number of millionaires who currently hold seats.   We rate this  .
Statement: On the question on the DREAM Act, no -- no to granting lower tuition to illegals.
Speaker: john mica
About the speaker: John Mica is a Republican congressman from Winter Park-based Congressional District 7 in Central Florida. As of January 2011, he is chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Date: November 18, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: immigration;education
Context: an interview with MSNBC
Fact-check justification: As for the other states, the only real argument is that passing the DREAM Act could have the consequence of forcing them to offer in-state tuition to illegal immigrants as well. And we guess it could. But there's no definitive  that it would, just conjecture and speculation.   And it certainly isn't expressed in the bill language. So we rate this  .
Statement: Pay-as-you-go "is the principle that helped transform large deficits into surpluses in the 1990s.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: May 7, 2009
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: a speech at the White House
Fact-check justification: He said the PAYGO "is the principle that helped transform large deficits into surpluses in the 1990s." He is correct that it is a basic principle behind the effort to balance the budget, but his statement leaves the impression that it was the biggest factor. It wasn't. Yes, PAYGO rules provided some discipline that might have restrained Congress from adding more spending or new tax cuts, but the economy and the defense cuts were the biggest factors that led to the balanced budget. So we find his statement .
Statement: The state-hired company that evaluates state-mandated student exams "goes on Craigslist to get examiners to read our students' essays.
Speaker: leticia van de putte
About the speaker: Leticia Van de Putte, a pharmacist, was the 2014 Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor. She previously served in the Texas House.
Date: September 29, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: education
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Van de Putte, who has said she opposes high-stakes state-imposed student testing, said the company that scores the existing state tests "goes on Craigslist to get examiners to read our students’ essays." There’s a strand of  here; scorer positions have been advertised on Craigslist. But this statement leaves a loosey-goosey impression by not acknowledging the testing company spreads the word about its scorer jobs in a wide range of  venues. Also unnoted, the company further screens applicants to ensure they’re up to the job. Such information was public nearly two years ago. We rate this statement .  – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: In the last 10 years we've only had 7,000 barrels of oil spilled in the Gulf ... not counting hurricanes. This well is spewing that amount every day and a half.
Speaker: mary landrieu
About the speaker: Mary Landrieu, a Democrat, served as a U.S. senator from Louisiana from 1997 to 2015.
Date: May 4, 2010
Location: national
Topics: energy;oil spill
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: Initially, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that about 1,000 barrels of oil were leaking each day into the Gulf as a result of the accident. But NOAA then increased that estimate to about 5,000 barrels a day (which is about 210,000 gallons). But scientists say it could be far more than 5,000. So Landrieu is close with the 7,000 figure, but there's considerable uncertainty about the actual amount spewing from the leak. We find her  .
Statement: Says "by 4th grade, 86 percent of African-American boys and 82 percent (of) Hispanic boys are reading below proficiency levels.
Speaker: louise slaughter
About the speaker: Louise Slaughter is a Democratic congresswoman from New York. She formerly chaired the House Rules Committee when Democrats were in the majority.
Date: February 27, 2014
Location: national
Topics: education;race and ethnicity
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Slaughter said that "by 4th grade, 86 percent of African-American boys and 82 percent (of) Hispanic boys are reading below proficiency level." Government data backs up that depressing statistic, though it’s worth noting that the U.S. has at least seen improvements across all races since the early 1990s. We rate the statement .
Statement: Under President Barack Obama, the United States has "doubled our exports.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: May 10, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;trade
Context: Austin, Texas
Fact-check justification: "The president is committed to doubling our exports within five years and we have already made substantial progress toward that goal," said White House spokesman Adam Abrams. So Obama was getting ahead of the facts when he said that the United States has doubled its exports. That’s the goal, and progress toward it is being made. The doubling hasn’t happened yet. So we rate his statement .
Statement: Creeping defense commitments in (the Middle East) and globally now consume over half the U.S. discretionary budget annually.
Speaker: marcy kaptur
About the speaker: Marcy Kaptur represents Ohio's Ninth Congressional District in the House of Representatives. She was first elected to the House in 1982. She is the senior-most woman in the 111th Congress.
 
Date: June 24, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: federal budget;military
Context: the House of Representatives
Fact-check justification: The Congressional Research Service says discretionary defense spending dropped to historically low levels after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but escalated again when the United States went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Between 2000 and 2010, CRS says discretionary defense spending increased 6.8 percent per year, on average, in real terms. Others can debate the merits or faults of ballooning defense spending. Kaptur’s statement is accurate and there’s nothing signifcant missing. On the -O-Meter it rates as .
Statement: The Dutch (Afrikaners) were" in South Africa "first.
Speaker: ann coulter
About the speaker: Ann Coulter is a conservative columnist and author.
Date: August 23, 2018
Topics: history;punditfact
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Coulter said that Dutch settlers were in South Africa before black people. This is plainly . Bantu-speaking groups farmed in the eastern regions of modern South Africa perhaps as much as a millennium before the Dutch arrived. In the west where the Dutch settled, other indigenous group lived on the land that the Dutch then claimed. This  defies logic and history. We rate it .
Statement: Says Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Russ Feingold "voted over 250 times to raise taxes.
Speaker: americans for prosperity
About the speaker: Americans for Prosperity is a conservative group advocates for limited government, free markets and fiscal and regulatory restraint.
Date: August 22, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: taxes
Context: a web ad
Fact-check justification: The  also does not account for the large number of votes that were actually against a tax cut, not in favor of a tax increase. Experts say that’s a big difference. And it doesn’t acknowledge the nuanced nature of the votes themselves or that many votes came on elements of the same legislation. We rate the ad’s  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/8aecd592-a350-4255-97a3-e1210795a4a1
Statement: In fact, if you add up the net wealth of his cabinet, it has more wealth than a third of the American people total -- close to 100 million people.
Speaker: charles schumer
About the speaker: Charles Schumer is a Democratic senator from New York and the Senate majority leader.
Date: March 1, 2017
Location: national
Topics: wealth
Context: a Senate floor speech
Fact-check justification: Schumer said that Trump’s cabinet had more net wealth than a third of the American people. He bases his claims on an estimate of $9.5 billion of net wealth for the cabinet. Economists familiar with those kinds of comparison told us that Schumer got his numbers right. But they also told us that there needs to be clarification on the meaningfulness of Schumer’s statement, since it doesn’t take billions of dollars to be richer than the bottom third of of the United States. We rate this  .