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6 October
10:54 pm

My opponent has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in corporate PAC money from pharmaceutical companies and then turned around and cut their taxes forty percent, giving them a fifty billion dollar tax break

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Jocelyn Benson, at Michigan Governor General Election Debate (WOOD TV8)

10:54 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific figures about campaign finance and a specific tax cut percentage and dollar amount attributed to her opponent — all verifiable against campaign finance records and legislative history
What we foundThe 40% effective tax rate reduction for pharma from the 2017 Republican law is supported by Senate Finance Committee analysis using JCT data, but the claim that James personally took 'hundreds of thousands' in pharma PAC money is directly contradicted by Bridge Michigan's review of his campaign finance records, and the '$50 billion tax break' figure conflates pharma profits with tax savings and is not supported by authoritative sources.
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