Seizing the wealth of all U.S. billionaires would decrease the debt by only 16 percent.
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The Dispatch→ Assessing Claims About the Federal Debt and Billionaires’ Taxes
Seizing the wealth of all U.S. billionaires would decrease the debt by only 16 percent.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Give $16 Billion Of US Money To Iran In 2023; They’re Frozen Iranian Assets
Did President Joe Biden give $16 billion of American money away to Iran in 2023? No, that's not true: First, it's important to say that the amount in question is $6 billion, not $16 billion. Secondly, the money wasn't U.S. taxpayer dollar
Full Fact→ Company owned by Sunak’s in-laws hasn’t been given a multi-billion pound NHS contract
The largest NHS IT contract ever awarded was £330 million and was not awarded to Infosys.
Full Fact→ HS2 has not cost £100 billion to date
While the estimated cost of the project has increased substantially since 2009, as of last year £27 billion has been spent, and total estimates are now significantly less than £100 billion.
The Dispatch→ The ‘Billionaire Tax Rate’ Is Not 8.2 Percent
A viral claim relies on a misleading definition of income.
The Dispatch→ Assessing Claims That U.S. Billionaires Get a Free Ride on Taxes
IRS data shows high earners pay more in income taxes than their share of earnings.
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Biden said Medicare drug price negotiations cut the deficit by $160 billion. That's years away.
“We cut the federal deficit by $160 billion because Medicare will no longer have to pay those exorbitant prices to Big Pharma.”
PolitiFact→ Katie Porter – Fact-checking Rep. Katie Porter’s claims that billionaires ‘rigged’ California’s Senate primary
Billionaires “rigged” the California Senate primary election through “dishonest means.”
PolitiFact→ Linda Rosenthal – Does wage theft take $1 billion a year from workers in New York state?
“Each year, more than $1 billion is stolen from” workers in New York state through wage theft.
Full Fact→ The NHS Covid-19 app didn’t cost £37 billion
An old myth that the NHS Covid app cost £37 billion has resurfaced. In fact, that’s the budget for the first two years of the entire Test and Trace programme.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Saudi Crown Prince Did NOT Suggest Jared Kushner Has To Pay Back $2 Billion If Trump Doesn’t Win 2024 Election
Did Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman indicate that Jared Kushner, son-in-law of former President Donald Trump, will have to pay back the Saudi government $2 billion if Trump isn't reelected in 2024? No, there's no evidence
Full Fact→ Welfare payments to immigrants don’t cost £500 billion a year
A viral post about the number of immigrants ‘dependent’ on the welfare system seems to vastly exaggerate the cost.
Washington Post→ Biden keeps saying billionaires pay 8 percent in taxes. Not really.
The president is relying on an estimate that assumes income that is not currently being taxed on an annual basis.
Full Fact→ Overall cost of pandemic support was around £370 billion
We’ve looked into claims by Dame Andrea Leadsom MP about the number of Sure Start centres open in the UK, and the amount the government spent on support for businesses and workers during the pandemic.
AllSides→ Epstein Victim Claimed She Saw Sex Tape of Billionaire Richard Branson — Before Recanting Everything
https://themessenger.com/business/epstein-list-richard-branson-bill-clinton-donald-trump-prince-andrew-sarah-ransome
PolitiFact→ Americans for Prosperity – Wisconsin Public Service Commission has approved rate hikes, but not $1.9 billion
“Wisconsin utilities have charged ratepayers more than $1.9 billion of increases since 2019.”
PolitiFact→ Has Act 10 saved Wisconsin taxpayers $16.8 billion? Here’s what we could find.
Has Act 10 saved taxpayers $16.8 billion? Here’s what we could find.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, billionaire Elon Musk isn’t giving away free gold bars
Video shows Elon Musk announcing he’s giving away free gold bars.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Billionaire N.R. Narayana Murthy Did NOT Endorse Quantum AI Trading Platform
Did Indian billionaire and businessman N.R. Narayana Murthy endorse a quantum computing software that uses quantum AI to trade stocks? No, that's not true: A fake voice has been used in a video on social media to make it appear Murthy mad
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: John Kerry Did NOT Say ‘We Must Sacrifice Billions Of Humans To Save Planet Earth’
Did U.S. Special Climate Envoy John Kerry say, "We must sacrifice billions of humans to save planet Earth"? No, that's not true: A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department told Lead Stories that this claim is false. The article making t
Full Fact→ Fake US government memo authorising $8 billion of aid for Israel circulates on Facebook
The fake memo appears to be an edited version of a memo published earlier this year authorising aid to Ukraine.
FactCheck.org→ Posts Share Bogus Memo to Falsely Claim U.S. Is Sending Additional $8 Billion to Israel
Quick Take Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. The U.S. provides Israel with $3.8 billion each year in military funding under an already established agreement. But social media posts are sharing a doctored “mem
PolitiFact→ Social Media – Memo showing White House approved $8 billion to Israel is altered
“The U.S. is sending $8 billion worth of military aid to Israel.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden White House ‘Memo’ Does NOT Show $8 Billion In New Aid For Israel — It’s An Altered Document
Does a White House memo show $8 billion in new aid for Israel following the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023? No, that's not true: A social media post contains a doctored version of an earlier memorandum from the Biden administra
PolitiFact→ Fact-check: What Trump said about ‘$6 billion to Iran,’ immigration, economy at New Hampshire rally
We fact-checked Trump’s New Hampshire statements about Hamas, drug overdoses, the border wall and the price of bacon. Some of his claims were false or misleading while others omitted context.
PolitiFact→ The US freed $6 billion in Iranian money. Did it help fund Hamas’ attack on Israel?
Republicans say Joe Biden’s decision to free $6 billion of Iranian money helped fund Hamas’ attack on Israel. Those funds haven’t been released yet, but experts say confirming where the money ultimately goes is complex.
Full Fact→ Rishi Sunak has not written off £14.9 billion in PPE fraud
Claims that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wrote off £14.9 billion in PPE fraud are not correct. The figure may relate to stock impairments at the DHSC. The level of PPE fraud seems much lower.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pfizer Did NOT Just Agree To Pay $2.3 Billion In Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement In DOJ History — Happened In 2009, Unrelated to C-19 Vaccine
Did Pfizer recently agree to pay $2.3 billion for medical fraud, the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the U.S. Department of Justice and was this related to Covid-19 vaccination? No, that's not true: Pfizer did agree
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Did NOT ‘Accidentally’ Send $6 Billion To Ukraine — Funds Will Be Used For Future Aid
Did the United States transfer $6 billion to Ukraine by mistake? No, that's not true: In the summer of 2023, the Pentagon admitted that it overestimated the value of military gear sent to Ukraine due to an accounting mistake but the money
Full Fact→ NHS in England not paying out £8 billion a year in maternity negligence compensation
A Times column claimed the NHS in England paid more than double its £3 billion maternity budget in maternity clinical negligence payments. But last year these payments totalled just £1.1 billion.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ No, the US did not send Ukraine $6 billion by mistake
CLAIM: The U.S. accidentally sent Ukraine $6 billion in military aid. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The claim misinterprets an announcement by a Pentagon spokesperson in June that the agency had overestimated the value of weapons it sent to Ukraine over th
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Is Joe Biden right that a new Medicare drug law will save $160 billion over 10 years?
“According to the Congressional Budget Office,” the Inflation Reduction Act “will save the federal government $160 billion over the next 10 years because Medicare will be paying less for the prescription drugs they’re making available to senior
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘The Richest 1% Evade $163 Billion in Taxes Every Year, the United States Literally Has a Yacht Tax Deduction’
On August 28 2023, an unlinked post by former United States Secretary of Labor Robert Reich was shared to Reddit’s r/WhitePeopleTwitter; it alleged that the “richest 1%” of Americans “evade $163 billion” in taxes each year
The Dispatch→ The Disastrous Implications of the $6 Billion Iran Hostage Deal
That it will encourage hostage diplomacy among our foes is the least of the problems.
The Dispatch→ How to Bury a Billionaire
Yay! Young Nazis!
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ The sun might swallow the Earth, but not for another 5 billion years
CLAIM: Scientists have warned that the “Earth will be swallowed by the sun.” AP’S ASSESSMENT: Missing context.
Full Fact→ The UK’s tax revenue isn’t £40 billion less than it used to be “because of Brexit”.
A now-corrected article in The Guardian fails to make clear that a figure estimating the impact of Brexit on UK tax revenues is based on a counterfactual analysis.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Biden did not misspell ‘billion’ in remarks about debt ceiling
CLAIM: President Joe Biden misspelled the word “billion” while addressing reporters after debt ceiling talks with congressional leaders at the White House.
Logically→ No, the NHS COVID-19 app did not cost £37 billion