Fact Checking Worksheet

Copy and Paste your Opening Statement for your ISSUE. Highlight
the FACTS, STATISTICS, EVIDENCE that are mentioned in your speech.
Tax Plans:
Jill Stein is planning to ensure the richest Americans, and big corporations are going to pay their
fair amount of taxes, so the hard working poor and middle class families are getting a fair tax
cut. Is it fair that the wealth of the top 1/10 of 1% has gone up since the past decade?(statistic)
While they get tax cuts via capital gains. Not a single Republican or Democrat is discussing the
issue to restore the capital gains tax. Looking at Massachusetts lower and middle income
people are paying twice the rate of the top 1% highest income bracket.

Trade Agreements:
Jill stein plans to replace all corporate trade agreements with fair trade agreements. She will
regulate all financial derivatives and shall require them to be open to all traded exchanges.
Enact fair trade laws that benefits all local workers and their communities.
Jill stein judged the Democratic Party because they werent against the Trans-Pacific Partnership
trade deal, so She tweeted, "It is shameful that the the [sic] Democratic Party cannot bring itself to
reject the #TPP which puts corporations over people. #DemPlatform." Stein also tweeted, "Purpose
of TPP is to profits for corporations & wages for workers. We need just trade policies that
benefit all. #LibertarianTownHall.

Check out what other fact-checkers have said about EACH specific
statement. USE THE FOLLOWING WEBSITES: Politifact ; Factcheck.org,
theWashington Posts Fact Checker; SNOPES-- credit them appropriately!!

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/state-with-no-income-taxbetter-or-worse-1.aspx
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/trans-pacificpartnership-fast-track/

Find an EXPERT OR WITNESS OPINION. What does the expert

have to say about this quote?

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/12/05/u-sincome-inequality-on-rise-for-decades-is-now-highestsince-1928/

According to Stein's 2012 presidential campaign website, she supported rewriting "the entire
tax code to be truly progressive with tax cuts for working families, the poor and middle class,
and higher taxes for the richest Americans" and creating "a 90% tax on bonuses for bailed
out bankers."

The rich need to pay their fair share, which I define as sufficient to diminish income
and wealth inequality. If the US is to remain a democratic country and not become a
plutocracy, this needs to happen.
Reagan and Alan Greenspans tax breaks for the rich had a lot to do with the increasing economic
divide between rich and poor. The balance needs to be regained by taxing the rich to support the
poor until wealth and income is more evenly distributed.
There are other parts to Dr Jill Steins plan, but the above are the main planks, in my opinion.
She mentions public banking, which I have written about extensively in the San Diego Free Press.
The champion of public banking is Ellen Brown who has run on the Green Party ticket previously for
State Treasurer of California. Public banking is an important concept that would make it possible for
the US and its citizens to get away from the debt based economy they now suffer under. It also is a
non-violent way to diminish the power Wall Street has over the economy.
(http://sandiegofreepress.org/2016/09/jill-stein-green-party/)

Why is our trade deficit a problem? Because the deficit subtracts from
U.S. GDP and hurts the lower middle class. By outsourcing jobs, it has relegated
millions of U.S. workersespecially the low-skilled onesto the
underemployment rolls. As the country imports products it could have produced
at home, the trade deficit relegates many more to poverty (45 million Americans),
and to food stamps (46 million Americans), and to near poverty (another 15
million Americans). Welcome to the land of the American Dream.

SUMMARY ANALYSIS: From your research and deeper

understanding of this issue, summarize your findings and analysis in a
TRUTH STATEMENT.

 Jill Stein from the research ive done, its hard to find if she has lied.
From my other peers they seem so too, that Jill Steins honest. Shes a
candidate thats actually trying to make change within our generation. She
plans to make the rich americans, and big corporations pay their fair
amount of taxes, so the poor and middle class wont have to pay unfair
taxes.

FACT DATA COLLECTION

VIDEOS:
Quick note about Video

Copy & Paste the LINK

Ex: Obama schooling/factchecking his opposition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=_SbnuuFiJF8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QcqeFUbJoY

QUOTES/WORDS
Ex:

 please im gonna launch a novel idea and that is that we have fair taxes
all taxes are not the same (from youtube video)

"It is shameful that the the [sic] Democratic Party cannot bring itself to
reject the #TPP which puts corporations over people. #DemPlatform." Stein also
tweeted, "Purpose of TPP is to profits for corporations & wages for workers.
We need just trade policies that benefit all. #LibertarianTownHall.