Here are some of the highlights from the debate:<\/p>\n
Former CEO Carly Fiorina claimed that 92 percent of the job losses in President Barack Obama\u2019s first term belonged to women, but women \u2013 and men \u2013 gained jobs by the end of Obama\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n
Women have gained about 3.5 million jobs between January 2013 and September 2015. That accounts for 49 percent of the overall job gains during Obama\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n
Businessman Donald Trump disputed CNBC\u2019s Quick that he had criticized Sen. Marco Rubio and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for supporting H-1B visas.<\/p>\n
In fact, Trump\u2019s immigration plan, posted on his website, is critical of both of them. Quick also said that Trump has called Rubio Zuckerberg\u2019s \u201cown personal senator,\u201d which Trump again denied, claiming \u201cI never said that. \u2026 Somebody\u2019s doing some really bad fact-checking. I never said that.\u201d But Trump\u2019s own immigration plan, posted on his website, appears to criticize both Zuckerberg and Rubio, and does contain the line Quick mentioned. Trump also claimed his campaign was 100 percent self-funded, but more than half of the money his campaign has raised came from supporters\u2019 contributions.<\/p>\n
Fiorina blamed the Affordable Care Act for a large disparity in firm closings versus openings every year. But closings outnumbered firm births by the widest margin in 2009, a year before the law was enacted.<\/p>\n
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson said it was \u201ctotal propaganda\u201d to say he was involved with a controversial nutritional supplement company, but he appeared in promotional videos for the company, touting its products.<\/p>\n
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said that Social Security would be insolvent in seven to eight years. But even after the trust funds are exhausted \u2013 estimated to be in 14 to 19 years \u2013 the program can still pay out 73 percent of benefits for several decades.<\/p>\n
Sen. Ted Cruz said women\u2019s wages have declined under Obama, when in fact the latest figures show their wages have increased. Even adjusted for inflation, current women workers\u2019 median wages increased by more than 1 percent from 2008, in which inflation-adjusted wages for men remained flat.<\/p>\n
Rubio claimed CNBC\u2019s John Harwood was wrong that a Tax Foundation analysis of his tax plan found those in the top 1 percent of earners would get nearly twice the gain as those in the middle.<\/p>\n
Harwood was right.<\/p>\n
The Tax Foundation concluded that Rubio\u2019s plan, when scored \u201cdynamically\u201d to account for expected economic growth, would result in an after-tax income increase of nearly 28 percent for those in the top 1 percent, while those in the middle income deciles \u2013 40 percent to 50 percent and 50 percent to 60 percent \u2013 would see their after-tax income rise by 15.7 percent and 15.3 percent, respectively. People with incomes in the lowest 10 percent would see the greatest percentage gains, nearly 56 percent.<\/p>\n
Looking at the plan on a \u201cstatic basis,\u201d which does not assume that tax cuts in the plan would spur economic growth, the Tax Foundation said the average gain in after-tax income would be 3.9 percent. But the biggest winners \u2013 on a percentage basis \u2013 would be those at the bottom and top of the income scale. For example, the analysis stated, the gain would be 11.4 percent for the 10 percent to 20 percent decile, 11.5 percent for the highest 1 percent, but only 1.7 percent for the 50-60 percent decile.<\/p>\n
Chip Tuthill lives in Mancos. Website used: www.factcheck.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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