All statements involving Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
Repeating false charge doesn’t make it true
President Obama “went around the world and apologized for America.”
Mitt Romney
Comparing apples and oranges
The Massachusetts health care plan “dealt with 8 percent of our population,” far less than the “100 percent of American people” affected by President Barack Obama’s health care law.
According to the Census Bureau, the percentage of Americans without health insurance nationally was slightly under 17 percent in 2009, the year Obama began pushing for the bill. According to a Congressional Budget Office estimate, the number was about the same in 2010, when the measure was signed into law. Other estimates have pegged the national number at about 15 percent.
Meanwhile, Romney said that Obama’s law “dealt with 100 percent of American people.” That’s not exactly correct — the law allows a few categories of people to opt out of the individual mandate, primarily those for whom it would be a financial hardship. But it’s not too far off.
Mitt Romney
Pants on Fire in June, Pants on fire now
“We’re inches away from no longer having a free economy.”
The U.S. ranked ninth out of 179 nations on the list, with a score that placed it near the top of the “mostly free” category. The only nations to be considered more “free” than the U.S. were, in descending order, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Canada, Ireland, and Denmark.
Mitt Romney
Wrong before, and even more wrong now
“A few months into office, (President Barack Obama) traveled around the globe to apologize for America.”
Mitt Romney
Marx wouldn’t be happy with the U.S., circa 2011
“We are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy.”
Here are a few other statistics to consider.
Taxes. Taxes offer another measure of government involvement into the economy. According to the Tax Foundation, a pro-business group that studies tax policy, the total federal, state and local tax burden has been falling — not rising — in recent years. Every year, the group computes a national figure for all levels of taxation as a share of national income. The data shows that the tax burden has fallen modestly in recent years, from 31.2 percent in 2006 to 27.2 percent in 2011.
And as we concluded recently, the U.S. tax burden isn’t just hovering around a historical low — it’s also low compared to other advanced industrialized nations. In a 2006 international comparison, 25 nations had a higher percentage of taxes compared to GDP than the U.S., while just four — Mexico, Japan, Korea and Turkey — had a lower percentage.
Mitt Romney
The claim lives on
President Obama’s health care law “represents a government takeover of health care.”
Mitt Romney
Amnesty, amnesty, amnesty, amnesty!
“I don’t describe your plan as amnesty in my ad. I don’t call it amnesty.”
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