There are a series of other pieces of his revenue proposal that deal with some reform measures, like capping deductions and other issues, and then there would be a separate or additional tax reform process that is something that both sides have sought in a so-called two-stage deal.
There is one party to these negotiations who has put forward a specific proposal for revenue and a specific proposal for spending cuts.
Such a revenue-neutral proposal would still help reduce carbon emissions at the margin, but not nearly enough compared to the deep cuts necessary.
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Unlike the 1986 plan, which was designed to neither raise nor reduce overall tax revenue, this proposal specifically aims to increase taxes to 21 percent of Gross Domestic Product by 2022.
Again, his proposal for revenue through tax reform is substantially lower than what Speaker Boehner said was possible just in December.
What we haven't seen from Republicans, to this day, is a single specific proposal on revenue, and, in fact, we've seen less specificity from Republicans on spending cuts than the President himself has proposed.
Where is the Republican proposal that includes revenue as an element of a balanced approach?
The party believes the proposal would raise more revenue than the existing climate change levy.
The Bush Administration included a ban on SILOs as a revenue raiser in its 2005 budget proposal released last month.
Raising taxes at the high would, according to the proposal, raise additional revenue.
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Some important caveats here: TPC did not estimate the revenue effects of a Ryan tax proposal since the budget does not include an actual plan.
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However, under the GOP proposal to recapture the revenue lost by repealing the 1099 requirement, taxpayers receiving subsidies would be required to pay back all of their insurance exchange subsidies should their income increase over the course of a year.
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The proposal could also provide additional state revenue from registration fees and car taxes.
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Democrats say Mr. Boehner's proposal doesn't raise enough revenue for deficit reduction and cuts spending too much in a time of economic weakness.
Boehner issued his own statement Wednesday, saying the president had yet to make a proposal offering a balance between increased revenue and spending cuts.
Writers said they withdrew a proposal to increase their share of revenue from the sale of DVDs that had been a stumbling block for producers.
The CBOE staff proposal comes at a time when revenue hungry states are grasping for ways to force Internet retailers like Amazon.com and Overstock.com to collect their sales taxes and, failing that, to prod their own citizens to voluntarily cough up the dough.
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The proposal "simply doesn't raise revenue, " says Ronald O'Hanley, Fidelity Investments' president of asset management and corporate services.
Boehner responded by arguing that Obama's proposal was not evenly balanced, with more new revenue instead of the spending cuts and entitlement reforms Republicans seek.
They took no action on Mr. Christie's tax cut proposal, saying they wouldn't cut taxes unless revenue meets the governor's projections later this year.
But the Federal Highway Administration rejected this proposal in April, citing a federal rule that toll revenue generated on interstates may be used only to improve or maintain the road with the toll.
Of course, Fix The Debt while rejecting the idea of returning the tax rates for the upper 2 percent of Americans to the progressive rates of the Clinton era, thereby severely impacting on their personal capital gains and dividend income does appear prepared to support a proposal that would limit deductions as a way to raise revenue.
The Speaker of the House sent us a proposal that was two pages long that included one sentence on revenue.
However, the Senate proposal is held up on constitutional grounds, because legislation that increases revenue must originate in the House.
Currently, there is a proposal to break up the individual broadcasting rights, and create a revenue distribution model that will help all 20 teams.
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So a sizeable segment of the electorate is not yet aware of the Simpson-Bowles proposal or, more importantly, perhaps wanting more balance of increased revenue and less spending.
Revenue raisers on the business community itself pay for the corporate tax cuts under the proposal.
Because there has not been any credible proposal that anyone has seen that could pass Congress or makes economic sense that creates the kind of revenue necessary without raising rates.
The President has put a balanced, reasonable proposal on the table that achieves significant deficit reduction and reflects real compromise by meeting the Republicans halfway on revenue and more than halfway on spending from where each side started.
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