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FACT CHECK: Candidates make errant claims on auto bailout, taxes

Twenty Republican presidential debates later, the head-scratching claims kept coming.

Did Mitt Romney really cut taxes as Massachusetts governor, as he asserted yet again? Or did he raise them by hundreds of millions of dollars, as former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum alleged? And how could Newt Gingrich have given the nation four balanced budgets when he was only in Congress for two of them?There was something old, something new, in the misstatements of the candidates Wednesday in what was possibly the last GOP debate.A look at some of the claims and how they compare with the facts:ROMNEY to Santorum: "You voted to raise the debt ceiling five times without compensating cuts in spending."THE FACTS: Maybe so, but increases in the debt ceiling were not politically charged in the past as they are now. They just allow the government to pay bills run up by previous Congresses. To not pay them would be like deciding to stop paying a car loan or mortgage. In fact, President Ronald Reagan , a...

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