5 Facts

Tammy Duckworth supports the President’s healthcare law and its premium increase of $3,065.

The President’s healthcare law was supposed to lower premiums by $2,500 for a typical family. Unfortunately, it didn’t work. The reality is that the annual cost of health insurance has increased by $3,065. The law is unaffordable and needs to be repealed so that we can pass a patient-centered approach that lowers your healthcare costs. Tammy Duckworth supports the President’s healthcare law and refuses to repeal it.

Tammy Duckworth opposes legislation to prevent your taxes from going up by $4,620.

A massive tax increase—$494 billion in just one year—is scheduled for January 1, 2013, if Congress does not act. The effect of that tax hike on Illinois’s Congressional District 8 is $1.7 billion or $4,620 per tax return. Tammy Duckworth refuses to support the only bipartisan legislation passed by the House of Representatives to prevent this tax and doesn’t understand that it will impact not only middle- and low-income Americans, but also the dynamic small businesses that file as individuals and fuel job creation.

Tammy Duckworth opposes reforms to strengthen Medicare and save it from bankruptcy.

According to its own nonpartisan trustees, Medicare is scheduled to go bankrupt in twelve years, and possibly sooner, if it is not reformed. The program’s finances are steadily worsening as a result of the massive Baby Boom generation, consuming taxpayer dollars and making it more difficult for seniors to get access to physicians and other healthcare providers. Tammy Duckworth opposes common sense reforms to strengthen the program and give future seniors the same healthcare options enjoyed by Members of Congress.

Tammy Duckworth supports billions more in failed "stimulus" spending.

Ignoring the failure of the President’s nearly trillion dollar “stimulus,” as 12 million Americans are still out of work, Tammy Duckworth wants a new $227 billion round of stimulus spending. She supports a plan described by one liberal website as “more like a progressive wish list.” Tammy Duckworth’s solution is to throw more money at a problem, and that is how our country got this far in debt.

Tammy Duckworth’s solution to $4 gas and high energy bills is to use less.

In her own words, Tammy Duckworth’s energy priority is “reducing energy use.” She believes that “conservation efforts can make a difference faster than…expanded drilling programs.” Unfortunately, most families with long commutes cannot simply reduce their gas use. They need gas that is affordable, and they need members of Congress whose priority is opening up American energy reserves, rather than blocking the Keystone pipeline and asking Americans to use less energy.