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ROMNEY-RYAN PLAN OBAMA PLAN

TuRNs MEdicARE iNTO A vOuchER sYsTEM Could increase costs by more than $6,000 per year.

LOwered cO-PAys, PreMiuMs, ANd Out-Of-POcket cOsts fOr seNiOrs. By 2022, seniors will

save a total of $5,000.

RE-OPENs ThE dOughNuT hOLE. Force millions of people with Medicare to pay hundreds more each year on their prescription drugs.

exPANded PrescriPtiON cOverAge By cLOsiNg the dOughNut hOLe. Seniors in the doughnut hole

are already saving an average of $600 a year.

MEdicARE TRusT fuNd wOuLd bE iNsOLvENT iN 2016.

Added New PreveNtive BeNefits ANd eight yeArs tO the Life Of the MedicAre trust fuNd.

ENd guAR ANTEEd bENEfiTs.AArP: “Would Undermine...Medicare”

AArP: “Protects And Strengthens Guaranteed

Benefits In Medicare”

Paul ryan claims PresiDent obama cuts meDicare. it’s not true, but that Doesn’t stoP ryan from rePeating the falsehooD.

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False Claims on Medicare

$716 Billion SavingS: President Obama strengthened Medicare by cutting unnecessary payments to insurance companies

and health care providers, and these savings helped extend the life of the Medicare trust fund by eight years. The Romney-

Ryan plan takes the same savings and uses them to help pay for a $5 trillion tax cut, instead of coverage for seniors.

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Paul Ryan says the Romney-Ryan $5 tRillion tax cut Plan Won’t mean higheR middle class taxes oR a higheR deficit.

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False Claims on Romney’s $5 Trillion Tax Plan

Estate TaxHigh Payroll tax

Alternative Minimum Tax

Unspecified middle-class tax benefits - if Romney provides no net middle-class tax cut

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Unspecified corporate tax loopholes - if Romney provides no net corporate tax cut

20% Tax Rate Cut

EVEN ELIMINATING ALL LOOPHOLES FOR WEALTHY, MIDDLE-CLASS TA XES

OR DEFICIT WOULD RISE

ROMNEY HAS PROMISED $5TR IN TA X CUTS

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Every Penny Of Tax Benefits Going To All Taxpayers Earning Over $200,000

MiniMuM $1 Trillion Middle Class Tax inCrease or defiCiT inCrease?

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Paul ryan falsely blameD PresiDent obama for the closure of Janesville’s gm Plant, which closeD unDer Pres. bush.

PresidenT oBaMa resCues THe auTo indusTrY and over a million jobs, demanding shared sacrifice in exchange for emergency loans to help GM and Chrysler retool.

Janesville visiT: Then-senator obama visits the Janesville GM plant, giving remarks on aiding america’s auto industry.

Janesville PlanT Closes: GM shuts down assembly plant at the tail end of the Bush administration.

faCT CHeCkers saY rYan is WronG: independent fact checkers - including factCheck.org, and Politifact Wisconsin - call ryan’s attacks on President obama over Janesville GM “wrong,” “false,” and “misleading.”

GM announCes Closure: GM announces that the company will close the Janesville plant.

PresidenT oBaMa Takes offiCe: President obama is sworn into office.

PlanT uPGraded To “sTandBY”: as part of GM’s restructuring, the plant in Janesville is upgraded to “standby” status - meaning it is among plants first in line to reopen should GM need additional capacity.

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#3

False Claims on the Janesville, Wisconsin GM Plant

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Paul ryan falsely saiD PresiDent obama DiD “exactly nothing” with the simPson-bowles ProPosal. how DiD Paul

ryan vote on that ProPosal?

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False claims on the President’s plan to reduce the deficit

Ryan, Paulu.s. house of representatives

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PrESiDEnT oBaMa HaS a Plan To rEDUCE THE DEFiCiT

BY ovEr $4 Trillion. He is the only candidate in this race

who takes a balanced approach to deficit reduction in line

with Simpson-Bowles.