Financed through a more progressive tax code, it looks more like charity than a universal right.
Liberals have responded enthusiastically to Mr. Cuomo's interest in a more progressive tax code, in which higher-income New Yorkers would be taxed at higher rates.
They favor less revenue for government, not more, and they oppose a more progressive tax code that would heap even more of the overall burden on the wealthiest Americans.
A more progressive tax code, achieved through some combination of higher tax rates and capping deductions for high-income taxpayers, would be a powerful tool both to counteract these trends and to achieve long-term fiscal sustainability.
In the broadest terms, Mr. Obama would try to fashion a response to the income slump of the last dozen years based around a more progressive tax code and government programs — investments, in his phrasing — meant to lift economic growth.
A few companies, including DuPont, reported paying no state corporate income taxes from 2008 to 2010 even as they reported profits, according to the study, which was conducted by Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, nonprofit research organizations in Washington that advocate a more progressive tax code.
They agree that other avenues for second term bigness include immigration, climate change, universal voting registration and a more progressive tax code.
Virtually every element of this budget -- protection of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, investment in areas vital to our future, rollback of special interest subsidies and tax breaks, a more progressive tax code, saving money on the military by ending the wars -- reflects the opinion of the majority of Americans.
EPRI's experts acknowledge that more progressive building energy codes and appliance efficiency standards would yield even greater levels of electricity savings.
By doing so, we make the tax code more progressive, and mobilize capital that is otherwise inert.
