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The new Liberal Democrat election poster, which parodies a Conservative party election poster. Photograph: Liberal Democrats

Exactly 100 days before the UK general election, the Liberal Democrats have launched an election campaign poster that pokes fun at the Conservative partys ill-fated Road to a stronger economy poster.

The image, which has been posted to Facebook, depicts a long, straight road with the slogan Dont let Britain take the wrong turn. A sign pointing to the left reads Labour. Reckless Borrowing and a sign pointing to the right reads Conservatives. Reckless Cuts.

The poster is intended to poke fun at the Conservative partys first 2015 general election poster, which was launched on 2 January to widespread derision when it was discovered that the road pictured was from a photograph taken in 2008 near Weimar in Germany.

Speaking at the launch of the campaign, the Lib Dem leader, Nick Clegg said: The Conservatives want to veer off from the sensible economic plan we have set in coalition towards much harsher cuts than necessary to public services, especially in education. And Labour want to take us in the direction of reckless borrowing, threatening the economic recovery.

He said his party would stop Labour and the Conservatives from lurching to the extremes of left and right.

Clegg repeated a key line in the partys campaign, that the Liberal Democrats would give heart to a Conservative-led government and backbone to a Labour-led government, saying they would cut less than the Tories and borrow less than Labour.

The Liberal Democrats say that, as of Tuesday, their party headquarters in Westminster will be operating 24 hours a day to support its campaigns around the country. The party boasts that it has the best campaign technology of any UK political party and that they will be using techniques first trialled in the 2008 and 2012 US presidential campaigns.

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Although he supports the Affordable Care Act, U.S. Rep. Ron Kind has taken the lead among House Democrats in pushing to repeal a tax in the law that affects almost all of the products made by GE Healthcare in Wisconsin and sold in the United States.

The 2.3% tax on medical devices also affects products made by a host of other companies in the state. And it may be the most vulnerable of the many taxes imposed by President Barack Obama's health care reform law as a way to bring health insurance to millions of previously uninsured Americans.

On the first day of the new Congress, Kind and Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.) held a news conference to introduce a bill to repeal the tax. Similar legislation was introduced last year. But with Republicans in control of Congress, the law now stands a good chance of being passed.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has identified the tax as a key target. And the House bill sponsored by Paulsen and Kind had 261 co-sponsors as of Jan. 13, according to the Advanced Medical Technology Association, one of the trade groups that have lobbied for the tax's repeal.

The tax is on the sale of medical devices such as those that perform diagnostic tests for blood and urine; hardware used in joint replacements and spinal surgery; cardiology products such as pacemakers and implantable defibrillators; and diagnostic imaging equipment such as computed tomography, or CT, scanners.

Other companies hit with the tax include Mortara Instruments and Gauthier Biomedical in the Milwaukee area and Accuray, the company that bought TomoTherapy in Madison.

Some products made by 3M Co., which has a large plant in Menomonie in Kind's district, also are subject to the tax.

Kind stressed that he supports repealing the tax only if Congress offsets the lost revenue with reduced spending.

"One of the hardest things we had to do in putting together the Affordable Care Act was to make sure it was completely paid for," he said.

Critics of the Affordable Care Act contended that Congress over time would chip away at the taxes imposed by the law to pay for coverage. And the medical device tax projected to raise $29 billion from the 2013 through 2022 fiscal years became a target of lobbyists immediately after the law was passed.

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8.3m families will benefit twice from the Liberal Democrat tax cut, new analysis has revealed.

Thanks to Liberal Democrats increasing the personal tax allowance to 10,600,these families will on average be 1,330 better off each year.

New research using HM Treasury's tax and benefit model shows that our flagship policy of increasing the amount that people can earn before they pay income tax is vital in creating a fairer society.

Income tax cuts for working people were a top priority for Liberal Democrats when we entered the coalition in 2010 and one which we are proud to have delivered for millions of people.

In government Liberal Democrats have fought tooth and nail to deliver a tax cut worth 825 for more than 26m working people - something which the Conservatives said was not affordable.

And by raising the personal tax allowance to 10,600 we have lifted more than 3m people out of paying tax altogether.

As well as helping families make their money go further we're also lifting the lowest paid out of paying tax.

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