All False statements involving Rand Paul
A stat plucked from thin air
"We give (foreign aid) to developing countries, and 70 percent of it's stolen off the top."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
Words and motto came after founding
"The founders of New Hampshire came up with the motto Live Free or Die."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, April 10th, 2015
It's much, much less
"Over half the people on disability are either anxious or their back hurts."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, January 16th, 2015
For starters, two-thirds of stimulus was tax cuts and entitlements
Says President Barack Obama "spent nearly a trillion dollars on make-work government jobs."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, January 30th, 2014
Paul bats 0-for-3 on this one
"Over half of the young people" in medical, dental and law schools are women.
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, January 28th, 2014
It's somewhere between 28 percent and 38 percent
Of the roughly 15 percent of Americans who don't have health insurance, "half of them made more than $50,000 a year."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, August 15th, 2013
No advocacy we could find
"The president is advocating a drone strike program in America."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, March 7th, 2013
The correct average is actually 16 percent less
"The average (public school) teacher in Wisconsin's making $89,000 a year" in salary and benefits.
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, March 4th, 2011
For starters, that includes salary plus benefits
"The average federal employee makes $120,000 a year. The average private employee makes $60,000 a year."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, November 11th, 2010
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