In the United States, however, mortgage debt is encouraged through a subsidy in our tax code that, in fact, provides the greatest subsidy to those with the largest mortgage and, typically, the highest incomes.
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Not if both sides are willing to attack the spending hidden in our tax code.
We need to cut domestic spending, defense spending, health care spending, spending in our tax code.
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Unlike Governor Romney, I want to close the outsourcing loophole in our tax code.
The bad news is that Qualified Charitable Deductions are not a permanent allowance in our tax code.
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He talked about it today, about the need to instill a little basic fairness in our tax code.
And he's absolutely willing, of course, to make sure that it's balanced and that we find savings in our tax code.
Wall Street lawyers will fight to protect every loophole they embedded in our tax code, but their argument doesn't begin to make sense to people on Main Street.
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It's also the 10th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project, which set out to sequence the more than 3 billion letters in our genetic code.
It institutionalizes envy in our tax code and places a punishing ceiling above the heads of people who otherwise would have been ready to make the move from upper middle class into affluence.
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If we allow our safety net to be weakened, or lose a sense of fairness in our tax code, then we can expect more anger and frustration from citizens across the political spectrum.
Tax time will never be pleasant, but making form preparation easier, understanding better how government spending buys useful goods and services, and re-examining the tax expenditures in our tax code at least can mitigate our tax pain.
And we want to protect the tax cuts that are progressive in our tax code, particularly the earned income tax credit for low income people, the low income housing credit, and we want to try to protect the pension programs from being raided.
It would do it in a way that asks folks to play by the same rules, that says we should close loopholes in our tax code that allow wealthy individuals or corporations to enjoy tax benefits that average folks and average businesses don't enjoy.
But in our actual tax code, marginal tax rates vary by income, which makes the market outcomes a bit more complicated.
The fourth step in our approach is to reduce spending in the tax code, so-called tax expenditures.
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We need to be fiscally responsible in our approach to the tax code.
Both sides say that we should reform our tax code in a manner that eliminates unnecessary loopholes and special breaks and incentives.
We need to reform our tax code in a way that makes it fairer and better, and that allows us to raise some additional revenue combined with spending cuts that achieve the kind of deficit reduction we need.
And if he won't disclose his own relationship with tax loopholes and offshore tax havens, leaving voters more questions than answers, how can the American people trust him to reform our tax code in a way that closes loopholes, eliminates free-riding and ensures that everyone is playing by the same rules?
Our founding fathers wrote in code across huge geographic spans.
This requires, in Koh's words, that we "internalize" into our domestic legal code and policies whatever dictates should, in the "opinion" of others, govern.
In our interview he declined to specify exactly what vulnerabilities he discovered in that code, saying that he has instead contacted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Aviation Safety Administration, (EASA) and is working with the affected aerospace companies to fix the problems.
What we do get is a very challenged soldier who has participated in something that goes against not only his or her own moral code, but against our own sense of justice in this country.
It means controlling spending, simplifying our tax code, and reining in red tape that is choking small business owners who want to hire more workers.
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