VIDEO – Gov. Nathan Deal: Jason Carter – Big on Promises, Short on Truth

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Jason Carter: Big on promises, short on truth

The ad points out that Carter’s promises would cost at minimum $12.5 billion over 10 years and would cut many middle class families off of the HOPE scholarship.

Here are the facts on spending:

$12.5 billion is a conservative estimate of Carter’s promises.
He has said he would “fully fund” the education formula and has said we “underfund” education by $1 billion a year. That’s $10 billion.
He advocates expansion of Obamacare in Georgia. The cost to the state would be $2.5 billion.
CarterCare – which is the Arkansas model – would actually costs billions more than a regular expansion.
Carter says he’d make up the difference by “cutting waste” even though he never offered any legislation to cut anything in the budget.
On every issue raised during the campaign, Carter has advocated more spending, and he has never mentioned one budget item or program he would cut.

Here are the facts on HOPE:

Carter proposed implementing an income cap on HOPE recipients that would eliminate many Georgia middle class families from eligibility.
Just this week, after three years of presenting an income cap as a moral imperative, he could no longer defend his policy’s devastating impact on the middle class. Just like on school funding, he came up with a new election year position, saying an income cap is “too blunt an instrument.”

The facts supporting Deal for Governor’s ad stand in stark contrast to the blatant lies in Carter’s commercials. The most recent of these is an attack on Gov. Nathan Deal’s small business, Copart, which he built from the ground up.

Here are the facts on Gov. Deal’s former business:

Gov. Deal was never on the verge of insolvency and always had a positive net worth.
Gov. Deal and his business partner built a successful venture from scratch. Unlike what Carter and President Obama might believe, they DID build that.
The business sold for almost exactly what Gov. Deal said it was worth during the 2010 campaign.
Upon being elected, Deal placed his financial assets in a blind trust. A blind trust is a mechanism by which day-to-day management and decisions are made by an independent trustee.
Gov. Deal didn’t “get rich” in office. His personal financial worth went from a tangible business asset to a liquid asset.
Gov. Deal has said repeatedly that Copart will pay every cent that it owes and has advocated that the case be determined by a court to remove any appearance of conflict of interest.