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Reality Check: Trump on American taxes

...Looking at whether American citizens face the highest taxes, we rate Trump’s claim as false....

U.S. corporate tax collection totaled 2.6% of GDP in 2011, according to the OECD. That was the 11th lowest in a ranking of 27 wealthy nations.

So when it comes to American corporations, we rate Trump’s statement as true, but misleading. The United States has the highest official corporate tax rate, but that’s not what many companies actually pay.

Reality Check: Trump has a dirty mouth

We rate Trump’s outrage as %$*#.

Reality Check: Trump on paying for the wall with Mexico

We rate Trump’s claim that building the wall would cost between $10 billion and $12 billion as false.

Reality Check: Trump accidentally calls himself out

Trump said, “I don’t repeat myself. I don’t repeat myself.”

But by our count, he repeated himself at least 20 times during the debate...

We rate his claim false. False.

Reality Check: Trump on “Israeli Day Parade”

Trump touted his bona fides as a supporter of Israel during the debate, sparring with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz over which one of them is a more devoted booster of America’s close ally. Trump said, “I was the grand marshal, (walking) down Fifth Avenue a number of years ago for the Israeli Day Parade.”

...A number of Jewish organizations have honored Trump over the years for his philanthropy, but the government of Israel has not yet given him a prize as he claimed Thursday.

Verdict: True, but misleading.

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Reality Check: Cruz on Wall Street Journal article on Arizona immigration

In a heated debate about illegal immigration, Cruz noted that undocumented workers fled Arizona after the state cracked down on them. He cited a Wall Street Journal story that outlined the impact on state and business spending.

“What the state of Arizona has seen is the dollars they’re spending on welfare, on prisons, on education, all of those have dropped by hundreds of millions of dollars, and the Americans, and for that matter, the legal immigrants, who are in Arizona, are seeing unemployment drop, are seeing wages rise,” Cruz said...

It’s true that the Journal story said that spending on education dropped by hundreds of millions of dollars.

But Cruz exaggerates the other claims, so we rate them as false.

Reality Check: Cruz on everyone’s illegal immigration records

“I really find it amazing that Donald believes he is the one who discovered the issue of illegal immigration. I can tell you that when I ran for Senate here in the state of Texas, I ran promising to lead the fight against amnesty, promising to fight to build a wall,” Cruz said.

During the race for his Senate race in 2012, Cruz said he opposed amnesty — which to him means no pathway to citizenship or legal status for undocumented immigrants — multiple times......

We rate Cruz’s claim that he campaigned on a promise to fight amnesty and build a wall as true.

Reality Check: Cruz says Trump is for ‘socialized medicine’

..While specific details are hard to come by regarding Trump’s health care policies, he has made clear his support of universal health care, but not socialized medicine as Cruz claims.

Verdict: False.

Reality Check: Cruz and Trump on Libya intervention

In a discussion about the 2011 military intervention in Libya by the United States and its international allies, Cruz and Trump engaged in a vigorous debate about Trump’s stance on the issue and the question of whether Libya was better off without Moammar Gadhafi in power. Trump said the following about Cruz: “He’s saying I was in favor of Libya? I never discussed that subject. I was in favor of Libya? We would be so much better off if Gadhafi were in charge right now.”....

In his remarks at the debate, Cruz said the following: “He stated that in an interview that will be on our website, TedCruz.org, and you can see and hear the exact words from Donald’s mouth. And I assume when he sees that interview, maybe he forgot about it, that I assume Donald will apologize where he sees that he said exactly that.”

Cruz’s website does indeed link to the same 2011 video, so we rate his remarks as true.