All Mostly True statements involving Paul Ryan
"One out of every four students fails to earn a high school diploma. In our major cities across America, half of our kids don’t graduate."
"The Canadians — they (dropped) their tax rates to 15 percent. The average tax rate on businesses in the industrialized world is 25 percent."
Based on the August 2012 national jobs numbers, "for every person who got a job, nearly four people stopped looking for a job."
Says he and Mitt Romney "always said that we agree with the 2014 deadline" for leaving Afghanistan.
Wealthy taxpayers, not middle-income earners, get "most of the deductions" in the tax code.
Says U.S. Senate Democrats "have gone without any budget at all" for more than 1,000 days.
On taxes, President Barack Obama wants to raise "the top rate to 44.8 percent."
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