"In addition, this should be at best revenue neutral, or better yet, give us a balanced budget."
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Why? All that would do is perpetuate the spectacular failure that is Reaganomics and guarantee an increasingly crippling national debt. From the end of WWII to the inception of Reaganomics, the economy grew at an accelerating rate and the national debt as a percentage of GDP shrank to the point that some economists were afraid it would go too low. From 1981 to the present, that ratio - and the amount of tax revenue needed to make the required interest payments - skyrocketed. The experiment of cutting revenue and trying to make up for it with misguided spending cuts is a disastrous failure. We need to go back to what actually worked and use the increased revenue to pay down the debt to more manageable levels.