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Statements from House Speaker Paul Ryan and Gov. Scott Walker, shown here in 2014, topped our December High Five. (AP Photo)
Statements from House Speaker Paul Ryan and Gov. Scott Walker, shown here in 2014, topped our December High Five. (AP Photo)

High Five: Our most-clicked items from December

A look at our most-clicked items from December, including an oldie but a goodie.

Rulings from PolitiFact National

The Latest from PolitiFact Wisconsin

Mostly False

Numbers, and blame, a bit of a jumble

Scot Ross
Scot Ross

Under Scott Walker, Wisconsin "moved from 16th to third in percentage of people with student loan debt."

Increase availability of tuition tax credits for certain students

Update: A year into term, and no progress so far on this one

Universal access to college courses

Update: Proposal was cut from state budget

Increase higher education grants for certain students

Update: No action yet geared toward 'high demand' fields
True

Yes, though opted out of Obamacare Medicaid expansion

Scott Walker
Scott Walker

"Here in Wisconsin, we've put in previous budgets more money into mental health services than any governor has in the last 25 years."  

False

Data cited obscures the full picture

Katrina Shankland
Katrina Shankland

Wisconsin "is on pace to double the number of layoffs" this year.

Mostly False

No line item, but government spends on violent extremism

Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy

Says President Barack Obama’s homeland security budget had "$16 million to fight climate change" but "didn't have a line item to fight violent extremism."  

False

Not according to the numbers

Chris Larson
Chris Larson

The Milwaukee County bus system has "among the highest fares in the nation."

Mostly False

Credit goes more to the economy

American Action Network
American Action Network

"Under conservative leadership, Congress has reduced the federal deficit by 60 percent – nearly $800 billion."  

True

If anything, gap is understated

Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan

The U.S. "tax rate on successful small businesses is 44.6 percent," while the business tax rate in Canada is 15 percent.

Mostly True

U.S. top ranked, though figures for China not entirely clear

Joe Donald
Joe Donald

"We lock up close to 2.4 million people in this country. We're locking up more people than China and Russia."

Mostly False

Not when inflation is correctly factored in

Scott Walker
Scott Walker

"From 2010-2014, median household income" in Wisconsin "has actually gone up 7.4 percent."  

Mostly True

Carpooling down, SUVs and crossovers popular

George Will
George Will

Despite attention on global warming, "fewer Americans carpool today to work than carpooled in 1980" and "SUVs have never been a larger proportion of the vehicles being sold in this country."

Mostly True

Needs OK of at least one other official

Chris Larson
Chris Larson

The Milwaukee County executive can sell the public "museum, the airport and the zoo" -- all on his own, without County Board approval  

True

Few get the subsidies

Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson

"Probably less than 4 percent" of Wisconsin residents "are enjoying the subsidies" from Obamacare.

Half-True

Group that paid him disclosed its donors while operating

National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee

Says Russ Feingold "wanted to get money out of politics. Now he's profiting from that same dark money."

Half-True

Some changes, but hasn't advocated for completely private system

Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold

"Ron Johnson said specifically that he hopes the first steps occur to privatize the" Veterans Administration.  

Mostly False

Two dozen narrowly defined

Martha McSally
Martha McSally

The United States has "10,000 IRS agents making sure that you don't take an improper charity deduction," but to fight terrorism, it has "less than two dozen people focusing on countering violent extremism at home."    

Mostly True

New routes came in lawsuit settlement

Chris Abele
Chris Abele

Since he took office as Milwaukee County executive, "we have never raised" bus fares and "this year there’ll be a million route-miles more than there were five years ago."

True

A factual factoid

Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman

Wisconsin’s 6th congressional "district has more manufacturing jobs than almost any other" in the nation.

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