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which is essentially moving the tax burden form richer to poorer. It's a non-starter & will hurt R's. Any change to the tax policy will involve winners and losers.

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the country is probably ready to hear a message of everybody should pay their share.

Romeny made a bad mistake not screaming about Obamaphones in his campaign. There are a lot of poor people who think Obamaphones are a joke and everybody without one thinks so.

Put expanded welfare on the forefront and make democrats defend it. Clinton knew if people perceived welfare had gone to far that independents would vote republican--thus the cuts in food stamps during his administration.

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So it is admitted "fairness" has nothing to do with the dems tax goals.

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fairness as a word means nothing because different people interpret it differently. For example, I consider a progressive tax system more "fair" than a flat tax but I can see the other argument.

Every time I see people wanting to change the tax code but keep it revenue-neutral, I look for who it is that stands to benefit - they're probably standing behind the pols.

I can get behind getting rid of deductions and making that revenue neutral because it removes the artificial incentives. Today, you basically have to have a mortgage or have cancer to be able to itemize deductions.

Good points. Personally I am for as complicated a system as possible....but that is for selfish reasons. I think a much bigger issue is the irs's failure to enforce current regulation...leading to government talking points and class warfare. Things like "offshore tax havens". Drive me nuts because the laws preventing those are already in place.

Introduce the "Affordable Gun Act"

because no American should be denied their rights just because they can't afford them.

LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE.

Balanced budget amendment.

Dens ran on implementing and passing their holy grail with healthcare, it's time for the republicans to get their holy grail too.

Economic Growth

loosening regulations
end bailout of health insurance co. through O'Care
10% across the board income tax reduction
Keystone pipeline greenlight.

legalization of marijuana
FAIR Tax Act
de-regulation of marriage
path to citizenship and immigration reform

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which is essentially moving the tax burden form richer to poorer.

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No no. Obviously there would be a "red line". There could be other measures -- deductions below certain income levels, etc.

But the concept targets scaling back the IRS ~80-90%.

This poster is tired of the IRS being available to Nixon or Obama as a weapon.
Don't you agree?