On the recordJuly 21, 2004
I have put together a proposal that would affect about 60 percent of the tax filers and get the form down to 12 simple questions and eliminate 200 pages of the code, about 2,000 addendum pages, and it is called the simplified family credit. It takes the earned income tax credit, which is for working people making the moderate income level, the per child tax credit, the dependent care and collapses them into a single family credit, eliminates 200 some-odd pages of code, 12 questions. Also wacks the marriage penalty and deals with the AMT, which is a regressive tax for families. And in my sense, that puts not the onus so much but the benefits of the Tax Code behind families at work who are trying to do right for their children, and it would simplify the code but also reward those families who choose work over dependency.
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