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PALIN: “I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending … and championed rectification to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress ‘acknowledgments but no thanks’ in the place of that Bridge to Nowhere.”

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to protect earmarks for the town totaling $27 a thousand thousand. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in peculiar federal spending, by far the largest per-capita ask in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island through 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally for example a “bridge to nowhere.”

PALIN: “There is much to like and admire well-nigh our opponent. But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate.”

THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does be delivered of a in addition meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to interrupt illegal shipments of arms of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the be in action of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy tone in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also prosperously co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

PALIN: “The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise gains taxes, raise payroll taxes, rear investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the accusation burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars.”

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank generality unitedly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama’s plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain’s plan, that cuts taxes across all income levels, would promote after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

Obama would furnish $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits in opposition to larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes adhering taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes go.

MCCAIN: “She’s been overseer of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America’s energy fund … She’s responsible for 20 percent of the nation’s energy supply. I’m entertained by the comparison and I confidence we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is in some way comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America,” he said in any interview through ABC News’ Charles Gibson.

THE FACTS: McCain’s phrasing exaggerates as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but claims. Palin is ruler of a state that ranks aid nationally in crude oil production, but she’s no more “responsible” for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, a different oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to censure oil, which she did in design with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest explain in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

MCCAIN: “She’s the commander of the Alaska National Guard. … She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” he said on ABC.

THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their glory guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual soldier-like service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, as antidote to example, they undertake those duties under “federal status,” which means they minute to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska’s general watchfulness units accept a full of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin “got additional votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.”

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor’s election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a gross of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was steady the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: “We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We esteem a prescription for each American who wants change in Washington — throw gone out the big-government liberals, and single out John McCain and Sarah Palin.”

THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president by reason of nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only from the time of January 2007 have Democrats have been in ascribe of the House and Senate.