Quit paying politics on tax policy and make a deal to keep the top tax rate at 35% and set dividends & cap gains @ 25%.

This petition gives the GOP something rather than using extending middle class tax cuts as a political issue only, while setting up parameters that could easily be the outline for a permanent compromise, which should have corporate income, personal income, dividends and capital gains all taxed at the same rate between 25% and 28% - with most tax benefits moved to a separate employer paid VAT-like Net Business Receipts Tax, which is a VAT with exclusions for health care, the child tax credit (expanded to $500 per month to replace SNAP, EITC, Child Exemptions and home mortgage deduction and property tax deduction and be fully refundable), education credits and any personal accounts in Social Security (holding insured employer voting stock rather than index funds).