copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: “Tim Ryan when he ran for president two years ago … supported banning fracking both on public lands and generally speaking.” (J.D. Vance, 2022-10-10)
Evidence (2024-08-30): Asked about her shifting positions on some key policies since she last ran for president in 2019, Ms Harris said her values had not changed – before confirming that she no longer supports a ban on fracking for natural gas or decriminalising illegal immigration.
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2020-02-20): The post claims Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All plan would place a 52% tax on earnings over $29,000. But he has never suggested that. Sanders has proposed several options to help cover the cost of Medicare for All, including raising taxes to 52% for incomes above $10 million. Another option is a 4% income-based premium paid by households. That would add to Americans’ tax burden, but not as much as the post said.
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2020-02-15): According to a February 15, 2020 study by epidemiologists at Yale University, the Medicare for All bill that Bernie wrote would save over $450 billion in health care costs and prevent 68,000 unnecessary deaths – each and every year. [...] Since 2016, Bernie has proposed a menu of financing options that would more than pay for the Medicare for All legislation he has introduced according to the Yale study. In 2018, the typical working family paid an average of $6,015 in premiums to private health insurance companies. Under this option, a typical family of four earning $60,000, would pay a 4 percent income-based premium to fund Medicare for All on income above $29,000 – just $1,240 a year – saving that family $4,775 a year. Families of four making less than $29,000 a year would not pay this premium.
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2020-09-27): Facebook posts stated on February 19, 2020 in a Facebook post: Say Bernie Sanders said, "Italians are gangsters and Irish are drunk and Jews are greedy and black people smell." Pete Buttigieg stated on February 22, 2020 in a speech: Says Bernie Sanders would "go beyond reform and reorder the economy in ways most Democrats — let alone most Americans — don’t support." Facebook posts stated on February 20, 2020 in an image: "Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. Instagram posts stated on February 14, 2020 in a meme: Photo shows Bernie Sanders at the 1969 Stonewall riots. Elizabeth Warren stated on January 14, 2020 in a debate: "Look at the men on this stage. Collectively, they have lost 10 elections. The only people on this stage who have won every single election that they’ve been in are the women, Amy and me." Facebook posts stated on November 17, 2019 in a Facebook post: Says Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi and Bernie Sanders have passed six bills in a combined 67 years. [...] Facebook posts stated on February 20, 2020 in an image: "Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it.
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2019-05-02): Mr Sanders' Medicare for All would see a new 6.2% tax paid by employers on all wages; estate tax reforms; more taxes on the wealthy; and a 2.2% income tax on personal income with no credits allowed. [...] In 2016, Bernie Sanders put universal healthcare on the map as a Democratic policy objective, even as Hillary Clinton scoffed that it was an unpractical and unachievable goal. [...] But some experts worry Mr Sanders' current tax plan would not adequately finance a Medicare for All programme, and that actual taxes could end up being even higher.
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2020-01-30): Originally introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Medicare for All Act of 2019 (S.1129) would provide universal health insurance to U.S. residents and displace almost all private insurers. Benefits under Medicare for All would be very generous. This program would cover a much broader range of services than current Medicare, including dental, vision, hearing, and home and community-based long-term care. And under Medicare for All, participants would have no copayments or premiums. [...] Sanders’ bill, as written, contains no plan to pay for the costs of Medicare for All, and so—following long-standing conventions — we score it as increasing deficits. Despite the potential cost savings described above, we project that Sanders’ bill would increase the federal debt by 92 percent in 2060. This increase swamps the economic boost from a healthier, larger population, and creates a drag on long-run economic growth. [...] Although it’s missing from his bill, Sanders has stated his intention to pay for Medicare for All through higher taxes. Recognizing this, we analyzed two alternative financing options: increasing the payroll tax rate and a new, flat insurance premium on all workers (subsidized for lower-income workers). Under the payroll tax financing option, the economy is 15 percent smaller in 2060. Under the premium financing option, the economy is slightly larger in 2060, by about 0.2 percent.
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2020-03-06): Sanders has also stated employees earning over $29,000 a year (approx £22,000) will pay a 4% higher tax rate. [...] What every study out there, conservative or progressive, says is 'Medicare for All' will save money "What every study out there - conservative or progressive - says, Medicare for all will save money," says Sanders. He believes the extra taxes would be offset by the savings Americans make on their health insurance payments. [...] Sanders says the plan would be paid for largely by the part-nationalisation of the US energy industry, and from tax increases on the fossil fuel industry and other large corporations.
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2019-08-03): This week’s second round of Presidential-primary debates were yet another marker of just how thoroughly Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All advocacy has transformed the Democratic Party. Perhaps even more notable than the stridency of Sanders’s and Warren’s defenses of the plan were the barbs from moderates who have been forced by widespread enthusiasm for Medicare for All to put forward plans that are well left of the Affordable Care Act. [...] When you look at Sanders’s plan in theory, he continued, "there’s nothing not to like for people. You can go to any doctor and any hospital, you have no deductibles, co-pays, or premiums, and it’s much more comprehensive than any current private insurance plans. There’s absolutely nothing not to like about that. But, you know, that’s how it exists on paper." Ultimately, though, Levitt argues that neither Sanders’s plan nor any of the plans that have been described as more pragmatic and politically feasible stand a chance of being enacted as written.
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2020-03-06): Sanders wants to expand Medicare to cover everyone, and says this would cost an additional $17.5tn over the next decade. [...] Sanders has also stated employees earning over $29,000 a year (approx £22,000) will pay a 4% higher tax rate. [...] Sanders says the plan would be paid for largely by the part-nationalisation of the US energy industry, and from tax increases on the fossil fuel industry and other large corporations.
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2023-11-09): Sanders never said taxes would go up on people making $29,000 a year, nor did he say people at that rate of pay would be taxed 52 percent on their earnings. Buttigieg didn’t even say Sanders would tax "people making $29,000 a year," he claimed that people making more than that would be taxed more under Sanders’ plan. [...] Emphasis on the final line is ours — according to the actual plan released by Sanders, the 52 percent tax rate was mentioned. However, it was for households with income over $10 million, and not "people making $29,000 a year." [...] Woods’ meme falsely claimed that at the February 19 2020 Democratic debate, Bernie Sanders said he would "raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year." Sanders said no such thing, and the claim bore only passing resemblance to Buttigieg’s quoted remarks above. Sanders’ proposed 52 percent tax was on households making more than $10 million a year, and a four percent tax was proposed for households making more than $29,000 a year. Under that same plan, Sanders estimated the same tax as $844 on a family of four earning $50,000, and the same family would, under that plan, save $4,400 in healthcare expenses to 2020 rates.
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2023-05-17): What’s in Sanders’ ‘bold’ plan for health care [...] In an interview with POLITICO, Sanders (I-Vt.) described a plan that would, over five years, provide $130 billion for community health centers and $60 billion in funding to grow the workforce. Within the workforce funding, he would set aside $15 billion for graduate medical education programs, with an emphasis on boosting primary care access. [...] For Sanders, it’s another example of the balancing act the progressive stalwart faces as leader of one of the top power centers in Congress, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. He’s still pushing "Medicare for All," but in a narrowly divided Senate he’s separating his roles, at times at least, as an advocate and legislator.
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2015-10-16): How does Sanders want to pay for it all? He would turn to the wealthy, Wall Street and corporate America. [...] To pay for it, Sanders would impose a 0.5% fee on stock trades, 0.1% fee on bonds and a 0.005% fee on derivatives. This would raise up to $300 billion a year, according to Warren Gunnels, his policy director, citing a 2012 University of Massachusetts Amherst report. [...] It remains to be seen how Sanders would pay for Medicare for All, which could cost more than all his other programs combined.
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2020-02-24): Sanders has never suggested placing a 52% tax on earnings over $29,000. The math, the post claims, works out like this: A person making Sanders’ $15 an hour minimum wage would earn $31,200 a year. But because of Sanders’ 52% tax to pay for Medicare for All, they’d pay $16,224 right back in a new health care tax. The upshot: The worker is only actually earning $7.20 an hour, or $14,976 a year after taxes [...] In short, Sanders doesn’t propose a 52% tax rate for any income close to what people make at a minimum wage job. In addition, tax filers are entitled to a standard deduction ranging from $12,400 for a single filer to $24,800 for a married couple. That means people would only pay tax on income earned over that amount. Other deductions or tax credits could lower someone’s tax liability further.
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2020-01-01): Today, more than 30 million Americans still don’t have health insurance and even more are underinsured. Even for those with insurance, costs are so high that medical bills are the number one cause of bankruptcy in the United States. Incredibly, we spend significantly more of our national GDP on this inadequate health care system—far more per person than any other major country. And despite doing so, Americans have worse health outcomes and a higher infant mortality rate than countries that spend much less on health care. Our people deserve better. [...] Bernie is counting on all of us to continue fighting for our progressive agenda. There is only one way we will transform this country – and that is together. Add your name to tell Bernie you're in.
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2020-03-02): Sen. Bernie Sanders has been pushing a single-payer health care system for decades. It’s the centerpiece of his vision for a more democratic socialist America. There are several such proposals for a single-payer system, but what’s below is from the 100-page draft bill most recently introduced, with tweaks, by Sanders in 2019. [...] In Sanders’ proposal, everyone who is a US resident, including undocumented immigrants, gets coverage. That would be a likely point of contention with this plan. There is a prohibition on traveling to the US for free medical care. [...] This is a massive new program and paying for it isn’t going to be easy. Sanders has plenty of ideas, however. For starters, everything that goes into the Medicare trust fund would now go into this new, larger fund. So would money that now goes toward the health care of veterans and pays states to provide Medicaid.
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2020-02-21): A viral post claims, falsely, that Sen. Bernie Sanders at a recent debate called for a tax rate of 52% on incomes of $29,000 or more to pay for his Medicare for All plan. He didn’t. That figure was floated as a potential marginal tax rate for income above $10 million. A viral post on social media falsely claims that presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders recently proposed a 52% tax rate for those making $29,000 annually. [...] "His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year," the post erroneously says, before diving into a math equation intended to show that such an exorbitant tax rate would render a higher minimum wage ineffective.
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2019-06-28): Sanders admits he would raise taxes on the middle class to pay for programs Sen. Bernie Sanders, challenged at Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate on how he would pay for universal health care and his other proposed programs, admitted income taxes on the middle class would have to go up — but maintained that the savings in medical expenses would more than offset the tax hike. Sanders, who took the first question from NBC correspondent Savannah Guthrie, talked about his Medicare for All proposal for his allotted minute. But when Guthrie followed up and pressed him about taxes on the middle class, he conceded, "Yes, they will pay more in taxes."
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2020-02-20): The post claims Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All plan would place a 52% tax on earnings over $29,000. But he has never suggested that. Sanders has proposed several options to help cover the cost of Medicare for All, including raising taxes to 52% for incomes above $10 million. [...] Sanders has never suggested placing a 52% tax on earnings over $29,000.
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2020-02-24): But there's no need to check the arithmetic in this meme. The general claim here — that Sanders' health care plan would raise the tax rate to 52% on everyone making over $29,000 per year — is egregiously false. [...] We were unable to find any instance of Sanders' proposing a 52% tax rate on "anybody making over $29,000" per year, something that appears to be an erroneous conflation of Sanders' proposing a 4% tax rate on earnings over $29,000 and a 52% tax rate on earnings over $10 million. A counter-meme offered a more accurate (although still not entirely accurate) look at Sanders' actual expressed plans: [...] We reached out to Sanders' campaign for comment on the claim that the candidate was planning to raise the tax rate to 52% on everyone making over $29,000 per year. A spokesperson told us "the meme is false."
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
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Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
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Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
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Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
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Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
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Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
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Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
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Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
Evidence (2021-04-24): All we really know is that tax rates are going up for everyone earning more than $29,000 to pay for his Medicare for all plan. $29,000 seems like quite a low hurdle to start paying more taxes, but at least more Americans are pitching in to pay for services. Sanders said on Stephen Colbert, "Is healthcare free? No, it is not. So what we do is exempt the first $29,000 of a person’s income. You make less $29,000, you pay nothing in taxes. Above that, in a progressive way, with the wealthiest people paying the largest percentage, people do pay more in taxes." [...] The 4 percent income-based premium tax paid by employees is highlighted on Bernie's official website. Here is his official document explaining how he plans to pay for free healthcare for all.
Claim: “Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.” (Facebook posts, 2020-02-20)
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