Part of Romney's Tax Plan: Eliminate taxes for taxpayers with AGI below $200,000 on interest, dividends, and capital gains.
This is huge.
(a) It's fair b/c it targets low and middle class only.
(b) It encourages people to save and invest in stocks, bonds, and savings accounts, which helps the low and middle class build wealth, supplemental income, a personal saftey net, and helps save for college, retirement, or anything really.
(c) Additionally, the capital flowing into stocks, banks, bonds etc.. will grease the wheel of the economy allowing businesses to start, expand, get loans easier, etc...
(d) As those businesses start and expand they will generate more income subject to income taxes (Growing the Base) which will reduce the deficit.
(e) In order for those businesses to start and expand they will need to hire people (+jobs) (also Grows the Base)
It is like a bacteriaphage, only instead it is an entitlement which will eventually kill off other entitlements by actually encouranging people to save/invest to build wealth and income produced from capital, which will lift them out of poverty, up through the income classes, and eventually they will have too much income/wealth to qualify for the other less-desirable entitlements.
This is huge.