Small retail businesses are having to accommodate many thousands of different state and local tax codes and be subjected to enforcement by out-of state revenue boards in out of state courts. With no system available to apply appropriate taxes at the time of purchase, the businesses will be forced to raise prices by up to 10% to cover the various taxes once all records are reconciled.

Jamaican citizens property tax has increase by 150%; this occurred due to loan furnished to the Jamaican Government by IMF for (u.s) $932.3 million, world bank $510 million and the Inter-American Development Bank $510 million. This decision has further created intense hardship,and the development for property confiscation. What happen in this country could happen any where, that is why we should partake and deter this decision.

NYS has NO oversight over title agents or title agencies despite the FACT that these entities are the cause of mortgage fraud and title fraud resulting in the mortgage crisis in NYS and other states. The NYS Insurance Dept., now known as DFS (Dept. of Financial Services) refuses to take jurisdiction over these fraudulent acts by claiming that NYS does not require LICENSES for these title agents/agencies who ultimately falsify property assessment values in order to MILK out mortgages on homes over 2-3 times the property value. They are also responsible for filing false deeds via fraud and deceit. ?Deeds can be filed out of chain of title by non-owners and illegally sold. NO entity protects the true homeowner, usually vulnerable human beings who are disabled, elderly, women, Afro-American, etc. There MUST be oversight and active immediate protection since the courts do not advocate for the victims.

Our only ammunition that 'they' care about is money and because 'they' have given us just about all of it with our mortgages, credit cards and student loans all we need to do to get 'them' to the bargaining table is to withhold it.

American jobs and fair trade. The people need to know what the government and corporations are doing behind our backs. Why should we let corporate America ship our jobs overseas and then sell the products back to us when we can make them and sell to ourselves.

The President's proposed 2014 federal budget cuts post-graduate fellowships from many government agencies. At first glance this seems like an easy way to trim spending, but in fact it is a grave mistake. It doesn't just cut jobs, it cuts off the pipeline of young policy makers prepared to lead these government agencies in the future.

Here’s a way to raise hundreds of billions of dollars, get Wall Street to shoulder more of the responsibility for America’s economic recovery, curb dangerous high-frequency trading, and move the financial markets away from short-term bets and back toward job creation and useful private and public investment. A small tax on sales of stocks, bonds, and complex financial instruments could do all of that, at no noticeable cost to ordinary investors or families.

This is about those people who are in companies like Apple who do not pay their fair share of the USA Taxes!

Fairness and good citizenship

Industrial hemp is NOT pot. In modern times hemp is used for industrial purposes including paper, textiles, clothing, biodegradable plastics, construction (as with Hempcrete and insulation), body products, health food and bio-fuel. As a world leader we need to reduce our dependance on other countries and start using Hemp as a renewable green resource, build business & employ Americans in the farming, manufacture and retail industries with it's products. The world-leading producer of hemp is China, with smaller production in Europe, Chile and North Korea. Over thirty countries produce industrial hemp, and the US uses the products produced by industrial hemp.

Over the years this has become more and more of a problem. Multi million dollar stadiums, casinos, etc. All paid for by taxpayers with little or nothing in return, except low paying service sector jobs. All the the while telling taxpayers there's no money for education, and infrastructure improvements. Government should not be a conduit for our tax money. Make them pay their own way or get a loan from a bank but get off our backs!

Syracuse Common Council has decided to hold Sound Garden to the ordinance that is generally used for pawn shops. By doing this Syracuse will lose an iconic store, that brings people in from all over the county to spend much needed money in our city.