Taxes and tolls. Other huge districts don't charge as much tax on purchases, the lost side of town is charged too much in property taxes. There probably isn't a house in a three mile radius that can bring in more than 100,000 but our property taxes are up over $3000 a year. Where are the people, thrown out of good paying factory jobs suppose to keep up the taxes, taxes and more taxes. Most other states aren't behaving like trolls on the highways as well.

The federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour. That is roughly $250 income per week; the average rent in Columbia, SC is $699 per month. SC currently has no state minimum wage law. Do the math! We must demand employers such as McDonalds, Walmart, Subway and even locally owned restaurants to up the pay to 10$ per hour! Workers cannot afford rent, food, transportation and healthcare. Lets make a better tomorrow!

Your local beer distributors could lose their livelihood if bill 790, Liqour Privatization is passed. Please support your local small businesses.

Individuals must be allowed to declare bankruptcy on students loans. Presently, it is nearly impossible to meet the standards for discharge. Courts use different tests to evaluate whether a borrower has shown undue hardship and the “evaluation” based on the Brunner test is too restrictive and unfair to the vast number of students who need this option now, so they may maintain a standard of living presently and in the future. Presently, many students have over $200K in debt with incomes as low as $50K or less. They are merely meeting their living expenses and often unable to save for retirement. These aging individuals are strapped with student loans with no chance of repaying them. The only ones benefiting from this debt are benefiting are the lenders, who continue to add interest upon interest to these ever increasing debts. The lenders know that the federal government will be the one's to pay these student loans off, but at a much higher price. Reduce the years for student loan forgiveness and make all present forgiveness laws proactive. Presently, students can have loans forgiven after 120 payments, but this new law does not help those with loans from the 80s and 90s. The laws need to be proactive and allow older loans to be forgiven due to low wages, etc.

Cut Foreign Aid to help balance our budget. Take away the outsiders entitlements not ours.

Amazon supports taxing online sales in a bid to destroy their competition. Unfortunitly this will limit consumer choice, destroy the online economy and thousands of small online resellers around the country. Sign the petition if you want US Senators to reject this bill and prevent more Americans from being put out of work. You can read more about it here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/04/22/178407898/why-amazon-supports-an-online-sales-tax-bill?

No taxes on purchases made through the internet

About not adding more taxes to the citizens of the states

Everyone would like a little more dough in their pockets. Raising minimum wage will do just that in but a month or two. My mother works at KFC for minimum wage, yet she works so hard her wrist needs a brace.

Most wage earners receive compensation based on the minimum wage that is decided upon by Congress. Since Congressional pay is not related to the minimum wage and is automatic; then they have no incentive to put a cost-of-living increase into the minimum wage. Therefore; it is proposed that congressional salary should not have automatic increases and should be determined by a reasonable percentage of the minimum wage.

Workers at fast food and retail chains across Chicago should have at least $15 an hour and the right to form a union. Their employers are making huge profits, but aren't paying their workers enough to cover basic needs like food, rent, heat, health care, and transportation. It’s outrageous and it has to stop. The brave workers are willing to risk their jobs and their livelihoods to stand up and say ENOUGH – and we can’t let them stand alone.

I can not turn my head and allow workplace bullying. I have a new diagnosis with what I just experienced: PTSD due to a hostile work enviroment. I am still wondering if I am actually totally disabled from the bullying I just experienced, and am facing weekly appointments with mental health professionals. What can you do? I did talk to an attorney who said their's no law against "abusive work enviroments, that's why workplace bullying continues and is on the rise". Well, please help me to make an antibullying law, the bill is already written, and can be found under Mass.HB1766. Please everybody get involved! This is far too important to ignore, and is this worst form of discrimation as it has been brushed under the carpet for too long. I am just one of the millions that have been injured.