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It’s well established that Paul Ryan can’t be trusted on facts that are important — the budget, taxes, policy.

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But the record of his dishonesty, or let us charitably say failure to attend to details, continues to grow.

From today’s New York Times:

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* MARATHON MAN: Mayo Clinic doc doubts the below-3-hour marathoner’s claim on his body fat index.

* DON’T LIKE TAXES? DON’T PAY THEM: Turns out Ryan initially made a tiny little $61,000 error in reporting his income for 2011, a fact lost in the reporting on Mitt Romney’s income tax funny business.

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In an amended return also released Friday, Representative Paul D. Ryan, Mr. Romney’s running mate, disclosed that he and his wife had initially failed to report $61,122 in income from 2011. He said the failure was inadvertent. The change raised their total income to $323,416 and increased their taxes by $19,917 to $64,674, or 20 percent of adjusted gross income.

They owed a penalty of $59 for the original underpayment. The Ryans explained that they had overlooked their income from the Prudence Little Living Trust. Mrs. Little, who died in 2010, was Mrs. Ryan’s mother.

A man who’ll lie/misstate the facts repeatedly about his marathon time, his body fat index, his income and the federal budget will FILL IN THE BLANK.

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