“If you need a tax credit to compete, you are probably not that competitive,” wrote U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Wichita, in a Politico commentary calling for the end of the wind-energy production tax credit. Pompeo also lashed out at the administration’s loan to solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra and President Obama’s record of “a jobless and exceedingly shallow recovery.” Pompeo concluded that GOP presidential nominee Mitt “Romney’s opposition to continuing the wind subsidy is absolutely correct. At some point, an industry has to either succeed or fail on its own merits. For wind companies, we are at that point now.”
Candidates love to point out when independent fact-checkers catch their opponents in a lie or exaggeration. But when they are caught, they and their partisan supporters are increasingly attacking the fact-checkers. After fact-checkers noted the many false and misleading claims in vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s speech last week at the Republican National Convention, GOP surrogates accused the fact-checkers of spinning the facts.
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“If you need a tax credit to compete, you are probably not that competitive,” wrote U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Wichita, in a Politico commentary calling for the end of the wind-energy production tax credit. Pompeo also lashed out at the administration’s loan to solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra and President Obama’s record of “a jobless and exceedingly shallow recovery.” Pompeo concluded that GOP presidential nominee Mitt “Romney’s opposition to continuing the wind subsidy is absolutely correct. At some point, an industry has to either succeed or fail on its own merits. For wind companies, we are at that point now.”
