copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2014-04-08): The nearness of April 15th is enough to remind us of the words of Jimmy Carter, who, when he accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for President, in 1976, said, "It is time for a complete overhaul of our income-tax system … It is a disgrace to the human race." Perhaps that was a bit hyperbolic in a world with so many people and events in the running to represent disgraces to humanity. But, in spirit, Carter was not wrong. The tax system is disgraceful, and what amazes is that, despite wide agreement on that point, and despite so many good intentions, so little has been done to fix it. [...] "All my life, I have heard promises about tax reform, but it never quite happens," Carter told delegates at Madison Square Garden, thirty-eight years ago. "With your help, we are finally going to make it happen. And you can depend on it." [...] But it shouldn’t take a village of accountants and economic theorists to work it out; it’s been almost thirty years since Congress approved a tax-reform plan that, for all its flaws, earned the adjective "landmark." Speaker Boehner might say "Aw, Jesus." Jimmy Carter would still call it a disgrace.
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2024-03-05): In 2016, a social media post went viral with an alleged quote from Jimmy Carter: "The novelty of electing a woman president should not outweigh the duty of electing an honest president." However, there’s no evidence Carter actually said this. [...] Jimmy Carter is no stranger to fake internet quotes, including this one: "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. While that sounds like a sentiment that Carter might endorse, it’s easy to prove that he didn’t actually say those words – because we know who did! The quote comes from comedian John Fugelsang, who said it on a 2013 episode of the TV show "Viewpoint."
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2021-10-12): Did former President Jimmy Carter chastise American Christians with a rebuke that starts: "STOP saying that you want a country based on Christian values"? No, that's not true: According to comedian and creator of the quote, John Fugelsang, the saying has been misattributed to President Carter since 2013. The Carter Center also told Lead Stories that they "have no record of this quote from President Carter." [...] Although former President Jimmy Carter is known for being a devout Christian, he did not say it. [...] If you don't want your tax $ helping the poor stop saying you want a govt based on Christian values. #p2 pic.twitter.com/Ih1ZWHEmWn -- John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) February 7, 2014
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2015-07-18): Former President Jimmy Carter never was quoted as saying that U.S. tax dollars should help the poor or "stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values." Because you don’t!" the full quote reads. [...] "Fincher and the GOP ... cut services for the poor and taxes for the rich. And it’s a free country. They’re allowed. Because you don’t. And that’s why representative Fincher is our ’revoltingly fake Christian of the week'!" he said on a Current TV show in May 2013.
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2023-06-12): Carter’s talk about disgraceful taxation seemed to be working — especially when he paired it with complaints about federal spending. "I am not in favor of taxing poor people in a rich country and sending it to rich people of poor countries," Carter said of U.S. foreign aid programs. "That’s what we’ve been doing." The populist framing of Carter’s fiscal rhetoric wasn’t subtle, and many political observers chalked it up to the influence of one of his key rivals for the Democratic nomination. "There is a strong populist flavor, and a faint echo of Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama, when Mr. Carter denounces present income tax law and codes as ‘a disgrace to the human race,’" observed The New York Times [...] Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson, D-Wash., offered an especially loaded charge. In language clearly intended to evoke memories of former president Nixon, as well as the American agony in Vietnam, Jackson accused Carter of developing a "secret plan" to hurt taxpayers by repealing provisions essential to their economic well-being. Carter was plotting "the destruction of the middle-class American family," Jackson told CBS News.
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2020-09-29): Anyone who's even vaguely familiar with Jimmy Carter has heard the assessment of his career that's become something of a political cliché: His presidency was largely a failure, but he's the best ex-president the country's ever had. [...] Alter paints a vivid picture of Carter's childhood in rural Georgia, where he grew up the son of a freethinking mother and a father who "was comfortable upholding a system of rigid segregation and quiet repression." He follows Carter to Annapolis, where he was an accomplished midshipman who became a competent, if ambivalent, sailor — while serving aboard the USS Mississippi, he hung a banner that read "Who Cares?" above his bunk. [...] Carter's election as president was marked by a series of unforced errors that nearly cost him the race, including his now-famous Playboy interview in which he admitted, inexplicably, "I have looked on a lot of women with lust; I've committed adultery in my heart many times." He also said he wouldn't force neighborhoods to be racially integrated, noting — again, inexplicably — "I see nothing wrong with ethnic purity being maintained."
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2023-07-17): During his 1976 campaign for the presidency, Jimmy Carter had developed a populist message on taxes, repeatedly denouncing the federal revenue system as a "disgrace" and "a welfare program for the rich." He promised sweeping reform, with a special (if vague) emphasis on closing "loopholes." Carter’s rhetoric struck a chord, judging by opinion polls and election results. It also yielded high expectations, as Carter promised to deliver on his pledge to reform the nation’s revenue system. Voters expected to see something sooner rather than later. [...] In a January 31, 1977, message to Congress, Carter provided the details of his multifaceted program. Predictably, his plan for individual tax rebates got a disproportionate share of media attention.
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2013-10-04): I don’t know. I don’t think he would vote for either of the two major party candidates. I think Jesus would be third party all the way, if he did vote. I bring up the fact that Jesus never lived in a democracy quite a bit, because when you hear people say, "Jesus said to help the poor, but he didn’t say the government should do it!" I always respond, "Yes, but Jesus didn’t have democracy." If you want your tax dollars to help people over here instead of blowing them up over there, then vote that way. And if you don’t want your tax dollars to help the poor, to help the sick, to avoid violence, to take better care of those in prison, to help the needy, fine. Don’t vote that way. But don’t ever say you want a government based on Christian values, because you don’t.I actually prefer the original quotation from Fugelsang in which one may hear an allusion to Matt. 25.31-46 (Sheep and the Goats). Also, the term "government" makes better sense here than "country". In order for the briefer, pseudo-Carter version to work, ". . .
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2019-05-01): Quote about tax dollars, the poor and Christianity was not said by Jimmy Carter [...] The quote, posted on Facebook along with a photograph of Carter, says: "If you don’t want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don’t." [...] Snopes, Jimmy Carter on Helping the Poor, Feb. 27, 2014
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2021-12-27): "Vietnam had one final lesson for Boomers: they could get away with their misdeeds. Jimmy Carter in 1976 issued a general pardon for draft dodgers." [...] "Early deregulation under Jimmy Carter was generally good, especially when accompanied by vigorous enforcement of other standards — like deregulating the price of a plane ticket." "Carter’s last effort to cajole the American people into their former probity was in his 1961 Malaise Speech, which said that too many tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption, and grasping for themselves some advantage over others, and didn’t promise an easy solution to the nation’s problems. The very people exhibiting the sociopathy he described were the ones least receptive to his prescriptions."
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2019-08-08): His advice: "Follow your passion. Start small, be very conservative in your expectations, think long term and be prepared to work a lot of hours." [...] Left: Vice President Walter Mondale and President Jimmy Carter, whose administration was from 1977 to 1981. Right: Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and President Gerald Ford, who served from 1974 to 1977. (State Dept./B. Insley) [...] (Graphic: State Dept./Frank Carter)
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2020-10-25): And if Democrats gain control of our government and the Supreme Court, and enact their desired policies, no Christian taxpayer will be free to say, "I refuse to pay that portion of my taxes that the government is using to pay for abortions." No business owner will be free to say, "I will not buy medical insurance for my employees that pays for abortions and sex-change surgeries." There will be only two choices: violate your conscience or else be driven to bankruptcy or go to jail. [...] 2. The claim that Christians communicate a falsehood when we act as if policies and laws are more precious than being a certain kind of person. [...] He also says, " I find it bewildering that Christians can be so sure that greater damage will be done by bad judges, bad laws, and bad policies than is being done by the culture-infecting spread of the gangrene of sinful self-exultation, and boasting, and strife-stirring."
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2023-09-29): —Jimmy Carter "We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different dreams." —Jimmy Carter "The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge." [...] —Mark Twain "The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
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Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2024-07-06): Questions that the smart people are asking themselves right now: [...] Not to mention offending everyone over 70 who has occasional brain fog. [...] Are you still standing behind that statement or would you like to take this moment to walk that back?
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2022-11-03): It’s a concept that has long animated Christians, and explains why church history is littered with movements and leaders who have tried to hold America accountable to its theoretical ideals. Before the Civil War, Christian abolitionists fought not just for the end of slavery but also for prison reform and humane treatment of the mentally disabled, while Wheaton College — the so-called Harvard of Christian schools — served as a stop on the Underground Railroad. By the turn of the 20th century, mainstream Protestantism was engaged in a movement called the Social Gospel, which applied Christian ethics to social ills like child labor, poverty, war, and crime. Its adherents advocated in favor of women’s rights, and against racial injustice and income inequality. They believed that the kingdom of God could, through social-justice initiatives, be realized in the here and now. [...] For an outsider, this may seem extreme, even unhinged, but it’s what televangelist Pat Robertson was talking about when he blamed 9/11 on abortion, or Hurricane Sandy on gay marriage. "When Christians get all worked up about religious liberty, it’s usually because it’s some law or cultural practice that impinges on what they think it would mean to be a godly nation," Bass continues. "If you have to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple, then what happens in the minds of the people who are living inside of this worldview is that you’re contributing to evil. It’s way more than a wedding cake. It’s participation in sin."
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2014-02-27): Because you don't!" sounds to many like something that former U.S. president would have said, as he has long exhibited a deep commitment to Christianity, has established himself as an international humanitarian (including founding the Carter Center, an organization dedicated to advancing human rights) and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his work "to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development": However, as much as this sentiment might sound like something Jimmy Carter could have or would have said, he didn't originate the wording used here. The quote in the version presented in the above graphic appears to have originated with comedian John Fugelsang, who at one time presented a segment on Current TV's Viewpoint program entitled "Viewpoint's Revoltingly Fake Christian of the Week." The segment for the week of 29 May 2013 targeted Tennessee congressman Stephen Fincher, of whom Fugelsang said: [...] So during a recent House agricultural committee debate, he decided to show how Christian it is to turn your back on unemployed suffering Americans by quoting one of the favorite Bible passages of revoltingly fake right-wing Christians — 2 Thessalonians 3:10 — "anyone unwilling to work should not eat."
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2023-01-01): You may watch the speech on our YouTube channel. [...] And Senator Clark of Pennsylvania, another articulate spokesman, defines liberalism as "meeting the material needs of the masses through the full power of centralized government." [...] Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy "accommodation." And they say if we'll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he'll forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer - not an easy answer but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2004-02-01): [At this point, the President kissed several women in the audience.] [...] Last year I submitted a budget that's now in effect during 1979 that increased total allocation of Federal funds for the poor by $4.5 billion. And next year, even though it's a very tight budget for fiscal year 1980, beginning this October, we again increased the allocation of funds for the poor $4 billion more. So, with the change in aid for the elderly who are genuinely poor and for the changes in the rate structure of electricity and the help for insulating homes, that's what the Federal Government can do. [...] Jimmy Carter, Elk City, Oklahoma Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at a Town Meeting. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/249330
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2004-04-23): The real change came when Jimmy Carter got elected, interestingly enough. Jerry Falwell declared verbal war on Jimmy Carter, as did Pat Robertson. A lot of evangelicals said, "Oh, these people don’t control influence." Yes, they do. They are very powerful influences. And here’s the reason why Jerry Falwell got so upset with Jimmy Carter. Shortly after being elected, Carter called a White House Conference on the Family. It was to live up to a promise. The promise was: "If elected, I’m going to do all that I can to restore the family, the basic institution of society." Well, he called this White House conference and people came to talk about the family. Lo and behold, they couldn’t even define a family! Was a gay couple with children a family? Was the single parent with children a family? What about abortion? All of these family issues came up. And nothing good came out of that conference except for this: it was an incendiary conference that blew the lid off. From that point on, the religious right said, "Wait a minute! Wait a minute! This government does not concern itself with family issues." And they came down strong.
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2019-12-06): The man was agitated, with red-rimmed eyes and clammy skin. [...] That made the man angrier. [...] The encounter shook me, badly. Shortly afterwards, I packed my astrology books and Tarot cards away for good.
Claim: Claims that Jimmy Carter said, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor – then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-29)
Evidence (2000-12-18): Let's move along. When you look back over your 8 years, what's the one thing now that you wish you had known 8 years ago? [...] And I think there have been two truly great former Presidents in terms of their public service, John Quincy Adams and Jimmy Carter. [...] NOTE: The interview was taped at 4:28 p.m. in the Oval Office at the White House for later broadcast. In his remarks, the President referred to Cuban youth Elian Gonzalez, rescued off the coast of Florida on November 25, 1999, who returned to Cuba on June 28, 2000; Senator Joseph Lieberman; Prime Minister Tony Blair of the United Kingdom; and President Jiang Zemin of China. The transcript was embargoed for release by the Office of the Press Secretary until 9 p.m. on December 19. A tape was not available for verification of the content of this interview.
Claim: claims Donald Trump donated his entire $400,000 salary to rebuild military cemeteries. (Viral Post, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2020-02-07): Trump has donated each of his quarterly paychecks to various government agencies, but none have funded rebuilding military cemeteries.
Claim: claims Donald Trump donated his entire $400,000 salary to rebuild military cemeteries. (Viral Post, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2016-09-12): Donald Trump says he has donated millions to charity. [...] But finding evidence to support Trump’s claims turned out to be surprisingly difficult. The Republican presidential nominee provided few details. His campaign offered little help. Even Trump’s son, Eric, who runs his own charitable foundation, couldn’t cite specific donations. [...] The lack of evidence to support Trump’s claims has raised questions about Trump’s honesty – and just how charitable the self-described billionaire has actually been.
Claim: claims Donald Trump donated his entire $400,000 salary to rebuild military cemeteries. (Viral Post, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2022-12-30): Trump’s charitable contributions declined over the course of his presidency. He donated $1.8 million in 2017 and about half a million dollars in each of the next two years. In 2020, as many nonprofits intensified their calls for donations as they scrambled to help victims of the coronavirus pandemic and the associated unemployment, the Trumps reported giving no money to charity. Trump repeatedly promised that he would donate his $400,000 annual salary for each year that he served as president, and he generally contributed his salary to federal agencies. IRS rules say that taxpayers who give money to government agencies "solely for public purposes" can deduct those gifts as charitable contributions on their tax returns. Trump’s failure to take any charitable deduction in 2020 suggests that he didn’t donate his presidential salary that year — and that if he donated his salary in the two prior years, that represented most of his charitable giving each year. A spokesman for Trump did not directly respond to questions from The Washington Post about Trump’s lack of a charitable deduction for his salary donations in 2020 but did note that Trump previously said he gave money from his salary that year to the National Park Service and to the Department of Health and Human Services’ coronavirus response efforts.