Every year, some large corporations dodge billions in taxes while their friends in Congress do all they can to protect their loopholes. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of it. Let's see if they can dodge this: As we near Tax Day, add your name to our petition and we will put it on a dodgeball and deliver it. By hook or by crook and with considerable help from Congress, a few big corporations end up dodging more than $150 billion in taxes per year -- through offshore bank accounts, phony overseas subsidiaries, and tax breaks written into the law by special interest lobbyists. You and I pay our fair share. Isn't it time for tax-dodging corporations to do the same? Especially when some members of Congress would rather protect these tax giveaways than invest in education, health care or making sure kids have enough to eat? Right now Sen. Nelson is part of the Senate group coming up with the plan for corporate tax reform. We know they are being inundated by lobbyists from the big tax-dodging corporations. Help us send a message that they can't dodge their responsibility to the rest of us.

Every year, some large corporations dodge billions in taxes while their friends in Congress do all they can to protect their loopholes. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of it. Let's see if they can dodge this: As we near Tax Day, add your name to our petition and we will put it on a dodgeball and deliver it. By hook or by crook and with considerable help from Congress, a few big corporations end up dodging more than $150 billion in taxes per year -- through offshore bank accounts, phony overseas subsidiaries, and tax breaks written into the law by special interest lobbyists. You and I pay our fair share. Isn't it time for tax-dodging corporations to do the same? Especially when some members of Congress would rather protect these tax giveaways than invest in education, health care or making sure kids have enough to eat? Right now Sen. Bennet is part of the Senate group that will come up with the plan for corporate tax reform. We know they are being inundated by lobbyists from the big tax-dodging corporations. Help us send a message that they can't dodge their responsibility to the rest of us.

Every year, some large corporations dodge billions in taxes while their friends in Congress do all they can to protect their loopholes. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of it. Let's see if they can dodge this: As we near Tax Day, add your name to our petition and we will put it on a dodgeball and deliver it to Congress. By hook or by crook and with considerable help from Congress, a few big corporations end up dodging more than $150 billion in taxes per year -- through offshore bank accounts, phony overseas subsidiaries, and tax breaks written into the law by special interest lobbyists. You and I pay our fair share. Isn't it time for tax-dodging corporations to do the same? Especially when some members of Congress would rather protect these tax giveaways than invest in education, health care or making sure kids have enough to eat? Right now Sen. Hatch is coming up with the plan for corporate tax reform. We know they are being inundated by lobbyists from the big tax-dodging corporations. Help us send a message that they can't dodge their responsibility to the rest of us.

On February 12, those making a million dollars a year reached the annual tax cap. After that day, none of their income will be taxed to pay for Social Security. Meanwhile, 94% of Americans -- those who make less than $118,500 a year -- will chip in a portion of every single paycheck, all year long. That’s right. A single mother working as an ER nurse pays 6.2% of every paycheck toward Social Security, 12 months out of the year. Meanwhile, a wealthy investment banker on Wall Street isn’t paying a dime into the system for the rest of 2015. They say we can’t afford Social Security. No. We can’t afford to keep giving unfair tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires! Add your name. Sign the petition and tell Senator Dick Durbin, Senator Mark Kirk, and Rep. Rodney Davis it’s time to end the Social Security tax break for millionaires!

Now that I am drawing on my Social Security, i can do volunteer work in my community.

I am the son of a union worker, a retired teacher who has worked closely with pro-public education unionized workers, and I am a former elected local official who believes this repeal would be disastrous.

To nurture and speed up the development of local and regional food systems. With 500,000 acres being removed from food production in California due to long term drought, and commodity agricultural exports raising food prices at home, the Local Food Security Tax Credit will make food available and keep food affordable for millions of Americans.

I have been serving for a while. Most people I work with have two jobs to make ends meet, causing health issues, exhaustion and more. Most restaurant industries require servers. Every day is a gamble, and we understand that when we sign up for the job. We can't control if or when customers come in. We can control only when they are here and their experience. Either the wage from $2.13 needs to be raised or there should be a minimum automatic tip on the check. We work so hard doing all we can, and when you do your best and get nothing for a tip, when they could have gone to a fast food place. .... yes it hurts. If most people tried to serve, I'm sure they wouldn't succeed. It takes so much talent to do this job. I work two jobs myself to make ends meet. I've had many checks today, as well as other servers, not include a tip. These checks were $50.00 plus, and that's a lot of food and drinks if you think about it. Something needs to be done. Please help to raise the wage, or set an automatic tip amount per check.

On April 1, 2015, Seattle took its first step towards a $15 minimum wage by requiring all employers with over 500 workers to pay at least $11/hr. Despite being the single largest employer in Seattle, the University of Washington administration has argued that it's not obligated to pay $15/hr to campus workers. This means that over 12,000 campus workers are at risk of not receiving a much-needed wage increase – including over 8,700 student workers, who have seen UW tuition rise 82% since 2008. Academically, UW is ranked among the best universities worldwide; unfortunately, UW is also home to an ever-growing gap between the highest-paid administrators and the lowest-paid hourly workers. Instead of increasing student fees/tuition, or cutting research funding and campus jobs, the UW can and should provide living wage jobs for ALL campus workers by redistributing funds from highly-paid administrators to the most marginalized workers on campus. If every other employer in Seattle can pay at least $15/hr, so can UW.

Just over 1 in 10 workers receive any paid days off to give birth and bond with a newborn or care for a sick family member. Ohio families shouldn't have to choose between a paycheck and caring for a loved one.

While the Billionaires are buying the Republican Party, the Democratic Party must counter by buying Working American. Wage inequality is by far one of the issue that should be resolved by our elected officials for 2016. It is time to take on the Billionaires and the Corporation who's greed is causing the major distress of the United States of America.

SB1278, introduced by State Senator Ira Silverstein (IL-8), amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that the Department of Revenue shall garnish a tax refund payable to a judgment debtor and instead remit the refund to the judgment creditor. Adds provisions governing the procedure for garnishment of tax refunds. Directs the Department to adopt rules to implement these provisions. Provides that specified refund withholding requests take priority over a garnishment order. Makes a corresponding change in the Code of Civil Procedure. Effective January 1, 2016. (http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=1278&GAID=13&GA=99&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=87750&SessionID=88) This is not Senator Silverstein's first anti-people bill. Remember this one? "Unpaid Utility Bill? You Could Lose Your Vehicle"- http://bit.ly/1P2w3J3 for which Crain's Chicago Business said, "A spokesman for Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the city is reviewing the legislation and has taken no position on it. Mr. Silverstein says he has not spoken with the city and introduced the bill at the request of a lobbyist friend whose clients include a law firm with a large collections practice. But that lobbyist used to work for the city's Springfield unit, Mr. Silverstein says. And the senator is not your typical legislator: He's the husband of Ald. Debra Silverstein (50th), a dependable vote for Mr. Emanuel on the City Council"(http://bit.ly/1MFUo92). Senator Silverstein's latest bad bill SB1278 would allow debt collectors and creditors to go after an individual's tax refund check. Not only can a creditor or debt collector garnish a debtor's wages already, but Senator Silverstein wants them to be able to double dip and confiscate taxes refunded for overpaying state taxes. True, some government agencies CAN garnish tax refunds in certain circumstances. If a debtor owes the city of Chicago or the State of IL money, those entities can get their cut first - but the private sector can not confiscate a debtors tax refund. Senator Silverstein's Bill could allow them and other entities expanded by this bill to do just that. Senator Silverstein's bill causes double dipping garnishment. A judge sets what a person can afford to pay and allows a debt collector to garnish that much. This bill would allow them to collect even more than what a judge agrees upon by collecting additional payment via the tax refund. It is not just the fact that it is double-dipping payroll garnishment, but this bill would confiscate tax balancing refunds from Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) which serves as a benefit for working people with low to moderate income. The real kicker: the law also allows the debt collector to charge a fee for the garnishment back to the debtor. Who will most likely have a refund coming back? The people who can least afford to have it garnished. EITC is the greatest tool the state has to bring balance to our tax code and goes to low-income families. Senator Silverstein's Bill could confiscate it for debt collectors. Senator Silverstein, do you work for the hard working taxpayers of the state of IL, who at times may go through a rough time due to various circumstances, or do you work for collections agencies and firms? It surprises us that among your top donors are law firms representing creditors and collections agencies that would benefit from these types of Bills the most including but not limited to: Creditors Bar Coalition of Illinois Blitt & Gaines, P.C. Freedman, Anselmo, Lindberg LLC Markoff Law LLC. Attorneys at Law Resurgence Financial, LLC Grabowski Law Center LLC Johnson Legal Group LLC Titlemax Management Blatt Hasenmiller Leibsker & Moore LLC (All publicaly available by and verifiable with the IL State Board of Elections website)