Last year, it was Burger King. Now, it's Monsanto. The agribusiness giant Monsanto is considering a plan to buy Syngenta, a European agrochemical company. (1) The move would allow it to declare itself a foreign company for tax purposes. If Monsanto does indeed renounce their status as a U.S- based company, it will mean they will be taxed at a much lower rate than American-based companies, in a scheme that is referred to as "corporate inversion." The crazy thing is, they don't actually have to move their CEO or any of their central offices, they can just claim on paper to be headquartered in the UK, much in the way that Burger King is now, on paper a Canadian company. It would also allow Monsanto to permanently avoid paying taxes on the $4.4 billion of profits it has reported as holding offshore. According to the Center for Effective Government, "Monsanto could owe as much as $1.5 billion in U.S. taxes on these offshore profits, an amount that could be permanently avoided if the new company engages in complex legal and tax transactions following an inversion." (2) We can't let big corporations continue to dodge taxes with high-paid tax lawyers -- everyone should play by the same rules. How can we invest in education or job growth if large, profitable companies are scheming to avoid paying their fair share? We hear a lot of talk about how Congress wants to help the middle class. Well, they can start by stopping the biggest companies from playing a rigged game and passing the Stop Corporate Inversions Act right now, which would save us $34 billion over the next decade. (3) Sen. Tim Kaine has supported closing the inversion loophole in the past, but he is not on record in support of the version of the bill. If enough people weigh in, I'm confident we can add him as a supporter. 1. http://goo.gl/eEMZqV 2. http://goo.gl/BjGSaq 3. http://goo.gl/psrmNp

Media should NOT be in the business of choosing the party nominee for President. Senator Bernie Sanders deserved equal air time to Secretary Hillary Clinton. As Sanders surges in the polls, it grows increasingly discordant that MSNBC's news programming focuses almost solely on Hillary Clinton's campaign. Please join us in demanding MSNBC do its job.

Workers at the Lear Corporation plant in Selma, AL, make foam seat cushions for Hyundai. These workers—most of whom make $12.25 an hour or less—use dangerous chemicals, called isocyanates, which are known to cause asthma and related respiratory problems. There is evidence that one of the chemicals used in the plant, an isocyanate called TDI, may also cause cancer. Despite numerous efforts by workers to address these health and safety issues with plant management, workers and even the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) say there is still cause for concern. Hyundai has the power and the responsibility to require Lear to make the necessary investments to ensure good, safe, fair working conditions in Selma. Hyundai’s own corporate social responsibility policies acknowledge that its obligations extend to the companies in its supply chain.

I see widespread damage caused by vaccines, and want this damage to stop. The only way for it to stop is to hold the pharmaceutical companies accountable and hit them where it hurts--their bank accounts.

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Corporations are currently being treated as citizens - with all of the rights but none of the responsibility. This allows corporations to have undue power and has turned our Democratic Republic into a Corporatist Oligarchy. Let's make this THE ISSUE of the 2016 presidential election!

The wind industry, ignoring best science, is building turbines virtually any place they want. As an environmentalist, I am horrified by the needless slaughter and the associated cover-up of bird and bat deaths at the hands of the wind industry. That's not green!

Some of Oregon’s biggest health insurers have proposed rate hikes as high as 42.7% for next year. I think they may be needlessly going to extremes, and some families may see thousands of dollars in additional premium costs a year as a result.

Anyone who has had to make burial arrangements for a loved one that has not had sufficient life insurance to cover the costs has most likely had to sign contracts to cover items that could not be paid for up front such as memorial headstones. In many cases, such as mine, I was led to believe that I had to enter into a payment contract before the burial could take place, even though everything that would be used for burial was paid for up front except for the headstone. Saber Management has claimed that since I signed the contract that the only way that I can ever put a marker down is to pay them what I have found to be at least 5 times the fair market value of a marker. This practice needs to be stopped. Help us take a signed petition to the legislators and court system to ensure the sanctity of the burial/funeral industry.

Despite nearly 2 million comments from the public and scientists saying we don’t want GMO salmon, the FDA may still approve it. This new “frankenfish” could end up on your dinner plate -- and it likely won’t be labeled. This would set a dangerous precedent, since GMO salmon would be the first genetically engineered animal approved for human consumption. It could pave the way for GMO pigs, chickens, and cows to enter the market. Even if the FDA approves this risky fish, by ensuring that the world’s biggest retailers refuse to sell it, we can send a strong message that there is no market for it. Demand that Costco keep GMO salmon off its shelves.

When the law breaks the law: Third party debt collectors via collection attorneys are scamming the system and lining their own pockets, at the cost of hard-working American families. These collection attorneys know the law much better than any consumer. Many American families are in debt, whether it be medical debt or credit card debt, due to job loss, illness or other hardship. Furthermore, original creditors have already received a tax incentive, or some other incentive when they charged off the debt, then subsequently received payment when they sold the debt for pennies on the dollar. It should be ILLEGAL for third party debt collectors to collect the whole amount of the debt, seeing that the true amount of their loss is actually what they paid for the debt, which is pennies.

This petition is to "Stop the Permit Renewal for Big Run Landfill" in Boyd County, Kentucky. This landfill is destroying our water, air, environment, and health and welfare of our citizens. The air is filled with hydrogen sulfide gases emanating throughout the county, and it has caused property values to fall, citizens experience increased health symptoms, and its presence with numerous violations has created a nuisance to citizens for years. Our children have a new Boyd County High School located within a mile of the landfill, placing them in a harmful environment, disrupting their education, focusing their attention to measuring air quality, and assaulting them with the gaseous odors causing them to gag at athletic events.