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Increase the capital gains and dividends taxes for higher-income taxpayers
Increase capital
gains and dividends taxes from 15 to 20 percent for those making more
than $250,000 (couples) or $200,000 (single)
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Expand the child and dependent care credit
Create a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners
Create a $10
billion fund to help homeowners refinance or sell their homes. "The Fund
will not help speculators, people who bought vacation homes or people
who falsely represented their incomes."
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Provide option for a pre-filled-out tax form
Will direct the
Internal Revenue Service to "give taxpayers the option of a pre-filled
tax form to verify, sign and return to the IRS or online. This will
eliminate the need for Americans to hire expensive tax preparers and to
gather information that the federal government already has on file."
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Create a mortgage interest tax credit for non-itemizers
Create a refundable tax credit equal to 10 percent of mortgage interest for nonitemizers, up to a maximum credit of $800.
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Require automatic enrollment in 401(k) plans
Require automatic enrollment in IRA plans
Require employers
who do not offer retirement plans to offer their workers access to
automatic IRAs and contribute via payroll deduction.
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Create a retirement savings tax credit for low incomes
A tax credit for
retirement savings up to $500 (couples) or $250 (singles). Phases out
when incomes exceed $65,000 (couples) or $32,500 (single). Indexed for
inflation.
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End income tax for seniors making less than $50,000
"Will eliminate all income
taxation of seniors making less than $50,000 per year. This will
eliminate taxes for 7 million seniors -- saving them an average of
$1,400 a year-- and will also mean that 27 million seniors will not need
to file an income tax return at all."
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End no-bid contracts above $25,000
Create a $60 billion bank to fund roads and bridges
"Will address the
infrastructure challenge by creating a National Infrastructure
Reinvestment Bank to expand and enhance, not supplant, existing federal
transportation investments. This independent entity will be directed to
invest in our nation's most challenging transportation infrastructure
needs. The Bank will receive an infusion of federal money, $60 billion
over 10 years, to provide financing to transportation infrastructure
projects across the nation. These projects will create up to two million
new direct and indirect jobs and stimulate approximately $35 billion
per year in new economic activity."
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Repeal the Bush tax cuts for higher incomes
Phase out exemptions and deductions for higher earners
Restore the
phaseouts of personal exemptions and itemized deductions for those
making more than $250,000 (couples) or $200,000 (single), with
threshholds indexed for inflation.
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Sign the Employee Free Choice Act, making it easier for workers to unionize
"Obama is a
cosponsor and strong advocate of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), a
bipartisan effort to make the unionization process more transparent and
increase penalties on companies that violate employee rights. He will
sign EFCA into law as president."
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Lift the payroll tax cap on earnings above $250,000
"Barack Obama
believes that the first place to look to strengthen Social Security is
the payroll tax system. Obama believes that one strong option is
increasing the maximum amount of earnings covered by Social Security by
lifting the payroll tax cap on only earnings above $250,000."
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Forbid companies in bankruptcy from giving executives bonuses
"Protect the jobs
and benefits of workers and retirees when corporations file for
bankruptcy by telling companies that they cannot issue bonuses for
executives during bankruptcy while their workers watch their pensions
disappear."
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Allow workers to claim more in unpaid wages and benefits in bankruptcy court
"Increase the amount of unpaid wages and benefits workers can claim in bankruptcy court against their employer."
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Allow imported prescription drugs
"Allow Americans to
buy their medicines from other developed countries if the drugs are
safe and prices are lower outside the U.S."
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Prevent drug companies from blocking generic drugs
Allow Medicare to negotiate for cheaper drug prices
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