| Taxes |
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• Give a tax break to 95% of Americans. |
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• Restore Clinton-era tax rates on top income earners. |
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• "If you make under $250,000, you will not see your taxes increase by a single dime. Not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your capital gains taxes. Nothing." |
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• Dramatically simplify tax filings so that millions of Americans will be able to do their taxes in less than five minutes. |
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• Give American businesses a $3,000 tax credit for every job they create in the U.S. |
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• Eliminate capital gains taxes for small business and startup companies. |
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• Eliminate income taxes for seniors making under $50,000. |
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• Expand the child and dependent care tax credit. |
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• Expand the earned income tax credit. |
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• Create a universal mortgage credit. |
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• Create a small business health tax credit. |
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• Provide a $500 "make work pay" tax credit to small businesses. |
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• Provide a $1,000 emergency energy rebate to families. |
| Energy |
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• Spend $15 billion a year on renewable sources of energy. |
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• Eliminate oil imports from the Middle East in 10 years. |
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• Increase fuel economy standards by 4% a year. |
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• Weatherize 1 million homes annually. |
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• Ensure that 10% of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012. |
| Environment |
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• Create 5 million green jobs. |
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• Implement a cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. |
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• Get 1 million plug-in hybrids on the road by 2015. |
| Labor |
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• Sign a fair pay restoration act, which would overturn the Supreme Court's pay discrimination ruling. |
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• Sign into law an employee free choice act — aka card check — to make it easier for unions to organize. |
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• Make employers offer seven paid sick days per year. |
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• Increase the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2009. |
| National security |
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• Remove troops from Iraq by the summer of 2010. |
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• Cut spending on unproven missile defense systems. |
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• No more homeless veterans. |
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• Stop spending $10 billion a month in Iraq. |
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• Finish the fight against Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaida terrorists. |
| Social Security |
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• Work in a "bipartisan way to preserve Social Security for future generations." |
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• Impose a Social Security payroll tax on incomes above $250,000. |
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• Match 50% of retirement savings up to $1,000 for families earning less than $75,000. |
| Education |
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• Demand higher standards and more accountability from our teachers. |
| Spending |
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• Go through the budget, line by line, ending programs we don't need and making the ones we do need work better and cost less. |
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• Slash earmarks. |
| Health care |
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• Lower health care costs for the typical family by $2,500 a year. |
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• Let the uninsured get the same kind of health insurance that members of Congress get. |
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• Stop insurance companies from discriminating against those who are sick and need care the most. |
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• Spend $10 billion over five years on health care information technology. |
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