http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/us/politics/21clinton.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5087&em&en=eb06bff9c4e6e311&ex=1201064400Her first priority, she said, would be changing the tax code. She has proposed tax credits for college tuition, retirement savings, health care and alternative energy use, most of which would go to lower- and middle-income families. She would also raise the top marginal rate to 39.6 percent, its level for much of her husband’s administration. Increasing high-end tax rates would bring in $52 billion a year, her campaign says, and help pay for some of her other proposals.
“It’s shocking that there is such a continuing political pressure to lower tax rates on the wealthy, when so much of what we look back on now with nostalgia and pride,” she said, referring to the decades immediately after World War II, “was at a time when those who were well off were paying a significantly higher percentage of their income.”
She said she would also use the White House bully pulpit to inveigh against the current level of executive pay. Though it is difficult to reduce such pay with new laws, she said, she wants to consider proposals that law school and business school professors have made along these lines.
“We have this class now of professional corporate managers who are not the creators of the corporation — they very rarely had anything to do with starting the business or building it up,” she said. “And then they come in and they believe their No. 1 obligation is to secure the biggest possible pay package at the expense at everybody else.”
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