Claim: Rhode Island "didn't ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution to pay federal income taxes. So Rhode Island doesn't even have to pay federal income taxes."
Fact-check: R.I. State Representative Charlene Lima says Rhode Islanders don't have to pay federal income taxes because the state never ratified the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Verdict: pants-fire
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: C. Eugene Emery Jr.
Date published: 2013-06-19T00:00:00