• Unclaimed Property Funds: Source for funding new jobs
    The unclaimed property funds in all of the states could provide new tax revenues for Federal use in new job creation across America. There are billions of dollars in these funds nationwide. The IRS should be owed taxes on the majority of these funds and I believe that they should be able to claim a large portion of those claims..
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    Created by Donna Jones
  • President Obama and Congress: Do not allow the extremist Republican minority to dictate a destru...
    In the next few months the Republican congressional minority are threatening to hold our economy hostage and threaten the trusted status of U.S. Treasury bonds to undermine Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid as well as public investment in our future and refusing to raise much needed revenues. This blackmail will hurt us all if president Obama fails to stand up to them. Their success would destroy our future.
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    Created by Arlene Geiger
  • Reinstate the Gephardt Rule.
    The Republicans in the House of Representatives are again threatening to default on our bills that Congress has amassed. This rule simply raises or lowers the debt ceiling to accommodate the spending and revenue levels approved. This would remove the chance of a downgrade in America's credit rating and help keep promises already made.
    70 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Jean Netherton
  • Raise Bernalillo County's Minimum Wage!
    In November, Albuquerque voters overwhelmingly supported a ballot measure to raise the minimum wage to $8.50. Now, Bernalillo County officials are considering passing similar legislation county-wide.
    666 of 800 Signatures
    Created by Christian Norton
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell Pres. Obama: Nominate Robert Reich for Treasury Secretary
    Let's end republican, Wall streets grip on our economy.
    7 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Jason Reed
  • Mandate for all new public construction to incorporate renewable energy
    Helping to develop and expand the use of renewable energy, reduce taxes, help clean the environment, reduce dependency on fossil fuels.
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    Created by John Heinz
  • A Just Living Wage Law
    This petition is my plea for a Just Living Wage Law that applies to all workers. I have heard endless arguments for and against fair wages while millions of workers and their families suffer unjust wages.
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    Created by Tom W. Lucas
  • Principal write down on underwater mortgages
    President Obama, our government, and especially our banking system has done nothing to help the 15 million underwater homeowners in this country, who simply bought at the wrong time and have fallen victim to Wall Street's manipulation of housing and the financial system. Folks like me are pouring money into a house that won't have any value for a decade or more. Our only option is to strategically default and be foreclosed upon because the banks will not work with us. Please write down the principal of these homes so that we can stay in them and are motivated to take care of them and our community.
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    Created by T. Werner
  • Proportionate Budget Spending Cuts
    My local soil and water district, which does great work to assist farmers and the community achieve real soil and water quality improvements, was severely cut. This could reverse years of progress made to clean up local streams. Shouldn't clean water and good farming practices to protect our soil for future generations and food production, be a top priority for this country?
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    Created by Dawn Busalacchi
  • EXCESS MILITARY BASES
    CLOSE ABOUT 10 EXCESS WORLDWIDE MILITARY BASES TO REDUCE THE DEFICIT, WITHOUT CUTTING THE NATIONS SOCIAL SAFETY NET PROGRAMS.
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    Created by Warren Breuer
  • Publish a ghost budget in which the costs of tax deductions are itemized and reported like any ot...
    Fairness and clarity will best be served by treating income adjustments, tax breaks and exemptions like any other government expenditure. Political tricksters and hired poets use language to make the tax deductions for business lunches seem very different from government payments to help the poor feed themselves. Or to make deductible mineral exploratory costs very different from payments to support education.
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    Created by Michael Cunningham
  • Taxes
    Taxing income punishes strugling people. Wealth, above a certian level, can and should be taxed for the benefit of the whole nation.
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    Created by Abdul Afaghni