The candidate's tax plans do not matter. Congress has to approve the plan, unless you are Obama. Any plan the new president will have, will be torn apart and inspected in detail. The fact that they(candidates) have a plan is good enough for me. The most important detail in our future will be to put our budget on a diet, balance it at the very least, and at best have a surplus that could be used to pay down on the National Debt.

Step one is to tear apart Obamacare so that it doesn't cost so much. Repealing it would be my ideal but the probability is slight.
Step two is to figure out a way to build a Social Security surplus to sustain if for the future and have some left for a rainy day situation. That may mean making some drastic changes to age qualification. There are many folks that receive SS that never invested in it(spouses, survivors, etc). We need to figure out a way to fix that. It wasn't meant to be a primary retirement pension. If it is to be, then we need to build it up. Not something I wish to see, because that is leaning toward socialism. I am a capitalist.
Entitlements are a big chunk of our budget. We need to separate entitlements from gov business and then we can trim down the gov to workable levels.

You can't raise taxes every time congress decides to buy some votes with new entitlements. Taxes should be a set percentage and gov expenditures should be dependent on the level of the economy. Better economy, more tax revenues. That would force the gov to play nicely with business. This country is run backwards, similar to socialist countries. The gov dictates to business. For a thriving and profitable country, it should be business dictates the size of the government. Sounds skewed but that is how you have a healthy lifestyle. Lifestyle is controlled by the economy, not the gov. The gov never improves lifestyle, only the economy. And the economy dictates the size of the gov budget. And the economy dictates the quality of your lifestyle, NOT the government.