Factchecking America

More or Less

BBC

News Commentary, Science, Mathematics, News

4.6 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2012

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

US Presidential Election factchecked. Is Mitt Romney right to say that 47% of Americans pay no tax? And how many jobs has President Obama really created?

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading from the BBC.
0:03.0	The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use
0:07.0	go to BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts.
0:13.0	Hello, welcome to More or Less on the BBC World Service
0:16.0	presented this week by me Jan Wong.
0:19.0	Oh, that's a bit rubbish, wasn't it?
0:21.0	Ready is harder than it looks. I'll try that again.
0:24.0	Hi, welcome to More or Less,
0:27.0	taking a numbers-eye view of the world with me Jan Wong.
0:31.0	Better, don't you think? Yeah.
0:33.0	Right. One, two, three, right.
0:35.0	Are we ready to record?
0:37.0	We've been recording all along yet.
0:39.0	What?
0:40.0	Well, I guess it can happen to anyone,
0:42.0	even American presidential candidates.
0:44.0	There are 47% of the people who evolved to the president
0:47.0	another one.
0:48.0	All right, there are 47% of them.
0:50.0	Mitt Romney was secretly recorded at a fundraising event,
0:53.0	claiming that 47% of Americans pay no income tax.
0:57.0	His point was that such people are reliant on state handouts
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