- Lower Tax Rates. The tax system should be simplified and work for all Americans with lower individual and corporate tax rates and fewer brackets.
- Cut Inefficient and Unfair Tax Breaks. Cut tax breaks that are inefficient, unfair, or both so that the American people and businesses spend less time and less money each year filing taxes and cannot avoid their responsibility by gaming the system.
- Cut the Deficit. Cut the deficit by $1.5 trillion over the next decade through tax reform, including the expiration of tax cuts for single taxpayers making over $200,000 and married couples making over $250,000.
- Increase Job Creation and Growth in the United States. Make America stronger at home and more competitive globally by increasing the incentive to work and invest in the United States.
- Observe the Buffett Rule. No household making over $1 million annually should pay a smaller share of its income in taxes than middle-class families pay. As Warren Buffett has pointed out, his effective tax rate is lower than his secretary’s. No household making over $1 million annually should pay a smaller share of its income in taxes than middle-class families pay. This rule will be achieved as part of an overall reform that increases the progressivity of the tax code.
PRINCIPLES FOR TAX REFORM