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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe deficit busting Progressive Caucus People's Budget
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=70Budget of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Fiscal Year 2012
The Peoples Budget eliminates the deficit in 10 years, puts Americans back to work and restores our economic competitiveness. The Peoples Budget recognizes that in order to compete, our nation needs every American to be productive, and in order to be productive we need to raise our skills to meet modern needs.
Our Budget Eliminates the Deficit and Raises a $31 Billion Surplus In Ten Years
Our budget protects Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and responsibly eliminates the deficit by targeting its main drivers: the Bush Tax Cuts, the wars overseas, and the causes and effects of the recent recession.
Our Budget Puts America Back to Work & Restores Americas Competitiveness
Trains teachers and restores schools; rebuilds roads and bridges and ensures that users help pay for them
Invests in job creation, clean energy and broadband infrastructure, housing and R&D programs
Our Budget Creates a Fairer Tax System
Ends the recently passed upper-income tax cuts and lets Bush-era tax cuts expire at the end of 2012
Extends tax credits for the middle class, families, and students
Creates new tax brackets that range from 45% starting at $1 million to 49% for $1 billion or more
Implements a progressive estate tax
Eliminates corporate welfare for oil, gas, and coal companies; closes loopholes for multinational corporations
Enacts a financial crisis responsibility fee and a financial speculation tax on derivatives and foreign exchange
Our Budget Protects Health
Enacts a health care public option and negotiates prescription payments with pharmaceutical companies
Prevents any cuts to Medicare physician payments for a decade
Our Budget Safeguards Social Security for the Next 75 Years
Eliminates the individual Social Security payroll cap to make sure upper income earners pay their fair share
Increases benefits based on higher contributions on the employee side
Our Budget Brings Our Troops Home
Responsibly ends our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to leave America more secure both home and abroad
Cuts defense spending by reducing conventional forces, procurement, and costly R&D programs
Our Budgets Bottom Line
Deficit reduction of $5.6 trillion
Spending cuts of $1.7 trillion
Revenue increase of $3.9 trillion
Public investment $1.7 trillion
President Bill Clinton
"Does two things far better than the antigovernment budget passed by the House: it takes care of older Americans and others who need help; and much more than the House plan, or the Simpson-Bowles plan, it invests a lot our tax money to get America back in the future business"
Jeffrey Sachs
A bolt of hope humane, responsible, and most of all sensible
The Economist
Mr Ryan's plan adds (by its own claims) $6 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, but promises to balance the budget by sometime in the 2030s by cutting programmes for the poor and the elderly. The Progressive Caucus's plan would (by its own claims) balance the budget by 2021 by cutting defence spending and raising taxes, mainly on rich people.
The Washington Post
Rachel Maddow
Economic Policy Institute
The Washington Post
Forbes
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)Email the Prez and VP. Post on Facebook and other social media.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)Sirveri
(4,517 posts)That sounds like a VERY bad idea. We've been taxing net earnings for a while now, this would be a huge shift in tax policy and doesn't even really make sense. This could instantly shift companies that are borderline in the black into the red over night. It also dis incentivizes raises and facility upgrades. Before it made sense to reduce your net gross by expanding your business or giving out employee bonuses, this would totally eliminate that. I would support a tiered corporate tax rate structure however to dis incentive excessive savings rates.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)but until this becomes a movement or outside political force that threatens the status quo, they are just nice dreams and fantasies we have. Nobody is ignored more by the body politic (majority of politicians) than the Progressive Caucus in our government.
byeya
(2,842 posts)a smaller and smaller %.
The main thing is to end the wars and reduce the number of military personnel and close many of our overseas bases.