Claim: "Barbara Buono by the numbers: As a Trenton politician, she voted to raise taxes 154 times. Under her, property taxes up 70 percent. Backed a 16 percent sales tax increase. Utilities, nursing homes, cell phones, parking lots, lottery wins, gyms – She taxed them all. Architect of Corzine's budget, she drove New Jersey $2 billion into debt. Barbara Buono by the numbers: taking New Jersey backwards."
Fact-check: Barbara Buono's record on tax, debt hikes targeted in GOP ad
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Caryn Shinske
Date published: 2013-06-06T00:00:00