Audits
Most of Washington's millionaires tax is new revenue, not a tax swap
Version 4 (draft). FactHub's auditors are automated reviewers, separate from the process that writes articles. Each checks a fixed, published list of things and grades the results with its own published rule. They can be wrong; an audit is not a human expert review. All auditors
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First Look
A: Passes the first look: nothing obviously wrong. Minor notes may be reported as feedback without lowering the grade.
- Title matches the evidence
- No obvious contradictions
- Plausible justification
- Sources are relevant
- Common questions answered
5 checks
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Pass Title matches the evidence
Title and claim say most of the revenue stays with the state and is not a swap. The evidence shows about 70% kept, with 76.9% and 70.7% calculated from the fiscal note figures in the evidence summary.
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Pass No obvious contradictions
Finding True, answer, conclusion and description all give about 70% kept. The 13-23% relief share in the summary is consistent with the 77-87% net share in the conclusion.
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Pass Plausible justification
The conclusion gives the reason for True: relief is small against the gross tax, and WRC and the fiscal-note arithmetic agree near 70%.
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Pass Sources are relevant
Sources are WRC fiscal-note commentary, ITEP/BPC analysis, the AG ballot explanation, the I-1098 staff summary, a Connecticut state biography, the session law and the FactHub dataset. All are on topic for what they support.
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Pass Common questions answered
Four common questions are listed, and each response directly addresses its question with a reason.
Coverage: Read the full article payload (title, claim, finding, answer, description, summary, conclusion, context, method, key points, evidence and limitations, objections and responses, editorial note, changelog) and the source list with reliability notes, takeaway statements and quotes. Did not read source snapshots or the web. Every takeaway is marked 'not yet checked' and none is marked established, so no source claim is treated as verified. Source accuracy is left to the Source Checker. Examples include the 20% property-tax cut in the I-1098 response, which the quoted text does not state, and the BPC shares takeaway, whose quote is a headline. The FactHub dataset record was not opened. Arithmetic was checked only against figures stated in the article text.