Governor Pence proposes a 10% state income tax reduction to dole out our state tax surplus. This would only have a small impact on the state economy and the pockets of the average Hoosier (in most cases, $50-250). Those funds would be much better spent on education, which suffered serious loss of revenue as a result of property tax caps enacted under Governor Daniels. Our roads are also in poor condition. I applaud the Indiana House Republicans to have the courage to want to support education and our infrastructure instead of political pandering.

2013-GOV'T WANT TO BUY 400,000 TONS OF SUGAR, TO BAILOUT COMPANIES THAT OWE LOANS TO THE GOV'T. SUGAR COMPANIES HAVE BORROWED $862MILLION FROM THE USDA!! 1. HEALTHCARE CRISIS ALREADY IN AMERICA, OBESITY ON THE RISE. MEDICAL CARE CAUSES ARE #1 CAUSE OF THE DEFICIT. 2. LET THE FREE MARKET BE THE FREE MARKET, IF SUGAR PRICES ARE MEANT TO FALL, LET THEM FALL. IF PEOPLE HAVE TO PAY MORE FOR CANDY, MAYBE THEY'LL EAT FRUIT INSTEAD!!

Lowering the salaries and benefits of elected officials.

Jobs for Rockford Illinois! Please make jobs your number 1 priority!!! People are hurting too bad to be able to take anymore cuts!!!

The country will be devastated with these cuts. Except for the wealthy.

It's time to reverse three years of education cuts that are threatening the quality of our schools. Next year, there will be 200 more staff cuts in Anchorage, following several years of cuts; 36 staff cuts in Fairbanks; close to 100 staff cuts in Juneau; and cuts in the Mat-Su Borough, Kenai Peninsula, Kodiak, the Northwest Arctic Borough, Nome, and other districts. This isn't the way to move education and the dreams and opportunities of our children forward. We are not wedded to the funding amount in House Bill 95. We are wedded to an amount that reverses Alaska's three-year course of school staffing cuts. If you'd like to stay educated on the latest in Juneau, feel free to sign up for our legislative e-newsletter at [email protected].

Yes, I've been affected. I work for a research department at a Miami University and the sequester threatens our funds. Jobs will be lost. Everyone is very scared.

Bills to decrease, and eventually abolish, the state income tax are currently moving through the Oklahoma House and Oklahoma Senate. (The Oklahoma Tax Commission estimates the loss in revenue under Senate Bill #1571 at $1.4 billion.) If we lose income-tax revenue, either schools and health care will suffer or else sales tax and property tax will go up. Fellow Oklahomans, let's let Governor Fallin and our state legislators know this isn't the way to improve life in our state!

The Senate conference has REMOVED the $2 million in funding for the Catskill Mountain Rail Trail that was originally allocated in Governor Cuomo's Executive Budget from its version of the budget. Although the $2 million item is still included in the Assembly version of the budget, this significant funding is now in extreme jeopardy. And today is our last chance to save it as their discussing the budget right now!

Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman, has released his most extreme budget proposal yet. It will slash vital services, dismember Medicare and repeal Obamacare. It will slow the economy and put 2 million people out of work. The House should instead vote for the Progressive Caucus Back to Work budget. It would create 7 million jobs in the next year, putting people back to work so that they start earning incomes and paying taxes. It protects Social Security and Medicare benefits for everyone. And it asks the wealthy and the multinationals to pay their fair share so we can make investments vital to our future – modernizing our infrastructure, educating our children, grabbing a lead in the green industrial revolution.

I live on a fixed income but I don't want Massachusetts government starved for tax dollars any longer. I want to give more to all the outstanding, good, and OK things this state government does and some that they no longer do-- our state is a national leader in many public services.nation leading environmental protection, models of citizen and business volunteer action which advises and compliments government staff. Let's also support the budgets of the attorney general, secretary of state, treasurer, and auditor action on issues that affect all of us, like bad banking and selfish mortgage lending, corrupt non-profits, utility overview and numerous public protections reflected daily.

I have been looking for a good job for 5years could not find one after I was laid off from the board of Education , because of cutbacks. I was a teacher's assistant for 7 years. since I could not find a job that could keep me and my daughter from living in our car. I finally took my mothers advice "can't find a job, make a job". I now work out of my home as a daycare provider, overnight, weekend babysitter, I also clean houses on the weekends. We the people need "one" good paying job.