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Tag Archives: John Boehner
The Sequester Blame Game
President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner emerged from their White House meeting on sequestration blaming each other for the automatic spending cuts and misrepresenting the other side’s position: Obama’s remarks left the false impression that Boehner has reneged on a GOP plan to raise $800 billion by limiting …
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Boehner’s Revenue Reach
House Speaker John Boehner claimed the federal government will take in more revenue this year than any other year in history. That’s true in nominal dollars, but not as a percentage of gross domestic product — a measure preferred by most economists that accounts for growth in population, inflation and …
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Paying People to Play Video Games
House Speaker John Boehner tweets that the Obama administration is spending $1.2 million “paying people to play video games.” That’s misleading. The government did pay $1.2 million for university research that includes the study of how video games can stimulate the cognitive abilities of seniors. A fraction of that cost …
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Tagged debt, Eric Cantor, federal deficit, John Boehner, video games
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Dueling Fiscal Cliff Deceptions
A fog of misinformation has settled on the fiscal cliff, as both House Speaker John Boehner and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner have traded conflicting, misleading and false statements in recent days on the president’s deficit-reduction plan: Geithner falsely claimed on “Fox News Sunday” that the president’s proposals to slow Medicare …
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Tagged Fiscal Cliff, John Boehner, medicare, spending cuts, taxes, Timothy Geithner
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Facts Falling Off the Fiscal Cliff
In press conferences on the so-called fiscal cliff, House Speaker John Boehner greatly exaggerated the negative effect on the economy of raising taxes on upper-income individuals. Boehner erred when he said that “the problem with raising tax rates on the wealthiest Americans is that more than half of them are …
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Tagged Deficits, Fiscal Cliff, John Boehner, small business
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White House Spins Women’s Health
Republicans are right: The White House is greatly exaggerating when it says that “women, in particular,” benefit from a prevention fund that the House GOP proposes to repeal. The truth is that the fund in question wasn’t set up specifically for women’s health programs, and we could find no concrete …
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Tagged John Boehner, Prevention and Public Health Fund, White House, women's health
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Boehner’s Big Stretch on Small Business
House Speaker John Boehner claimed that “small-business people” make up more than half of those who would be hit by a tax increase on “millionaires.” Not really. Only 13 percent of those making over $1 million get even as much as one-fourth of that income from small business, according to …
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