He also proposes raising money for the project with the crowdsourcing site Kickstarter.

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He also proposes limiting ammunition magazines to 10 rounds, expanding background checks to all gun transactions, including sales at gun shows.

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He also proposes giving the Commission the opportunity of requesting changes to national budgets, if a country builds up a deficit of more than 3%.

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He also proposes that every citizen be given a small "basic income", so everyone has the financial security to pursue their talents, even if those talents are not very lucrative.

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He also proposes immediate expensing for capital investment, which means that capital costs can be deducted in the year they are incurred, like all other business expenses, rather than spread over many years under arbitrary depreciation schedules.

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Mr. Dayton says his plan would produce "fair, progressive and sustainable" tax revenue, by which he means everyone pays more, because he also proposes lowering the sales tax to 5.5% from 6.875% but collecting more money by expanding its reach to everything from clothing to over-the-counter drugs and business services.

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Also like Mr Obama, he proposes a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases, but he would give away the permits, not auction them.

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He also is the author of "Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, " which proposes an international plan to solve the global environmental crisis.

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