A Call to Service: on Budget & Economy

Base policy on broad growth and progressive taxation

We cannot go back to the 1909s, and we should not simply restore the Clinton administration's policies. But there are certain bedrock, mainstream principles that can and must power our engines of economic growth:
• Economic growth is built on the talent and hard work of all our people, not just wealthy elites.
• Both private and public investment play a role in building the infrastructure for growth.
• Government must ensure a fair and honest marketplace for business competition, labor-management cooperation, and investors with enforceable standards of integrity for financial and accounting systems and corporate executives.
• The progressive system of taxes, which distributes the burden of self-government in proportion to the ability to pay, can and should be maintained without discouraging enterprise or wealth.