Congress is unwilling to solve the national debt problem; consequently, the citizens of the United States must act to force Congress to address the issue.

My friends daughter was attacked and found murdered and raped in one of HUD's abandoned properties in Chicago along with 3 other young women. The incident shocked the communmity.

The Income Tax has been taking us down the wrong road

It's unfortunate that there are no extensions in place for individuals like myself whose 4th tier was dropped. If extensions are in place, why aren't there any extensions for people who lost their 4th tier as part of this Fiscal Cliff deal?

Mitch McConnell demands deep budget cuts, AND he wants President Obama to take all the heat. That's not leadership. That's being wimpy. McConnell can start the budget cuts debate today by proposing the SPECIFIC cuts he wants. It's simple. He could do it this afternoon. Tell Mitch McConnell if he wants the cuts, HE needs to spell them out.

Republicans want to reduce the Federal Budget deficit by reducing programs & benefits that primarily affect the middle class, yet refuse to end subsidies, loopholes, & tax-breaks for their rich supporters. A strong middle class is essential for a strong economy, and a strong economy should be our top priority. Thus attempts to reduce the deficit on the backs of the middle class while protecting the wealthy should be stopped immediately.

Comprehensive Flat Rate Income Tax, and Social Security Finance Program. For Economic Recovery, Stabilization, Growth and National security.

The wealth disparity has reached incidious conditions. Patent and copyright oversight regarding reaping economic award has trashed the founding principles and constitutional provisions regarding equality. Over shadowed by this form and inception of racism, tainted moral clarity and reduced the neutrality of both the Criminal Justice and Judicial System ( in it's entirety) to tyrannical jacktations -via the plea aggreement. Similarly militarization designed for promoting advantage seeking corporatization that continues to trash and overstep originating boundaries, seeks untouchable international empericism yet remains for a tiny powerful fraction of benfactors crazed by an apparently coy and detached two party monopoly rigging the justice system...

Volitility, or frequent up or down changes in stock prices, adversely affects, almost every individual who has money invested on Wall Street. This small tax on each transaction would both raise as much as three hundred and fifty billion dollars in new revenue AND make hedge fund managers and others think twice before they manipulate security deals.

This petition is about having a more honest and transparent monetary system. This petition is about virtually eliminating usury, interest on money. The State of Massachusetts, instead of borrowing money from private banks, at say 4-5% interest, which it currently does, the State of Massachusetts can establish it's own bank, The Bank of Massachusetts and SAVE approximately $2 Billion in debt servicing fees per year! This would reduce the need for the continual increase of our income taxes and rejuvenate the current curtailed services by increased spending. We need more money in circulation that is NOT based on usurious debt!

The Republican Party in Congress is threatening to hold the American People Hostage with the threat of dismantling our Social Safety Net or face a Default on the Federal Debt Ceiling by their refusal to vote to raise the ceiling. This would not only wreck our economy - it would have dangerous financial chaos around the World on a planet already in far too much turmoil. And set up a system of government by hostage taking.

Why a company like Exxon, with a $6 billion profit last quarter, would need tax subsidies is unreal. Spend such money on renewable energies. Oil companies have taken in record profits during our coutries hardest economic period since the depression. They exploit everything and everybody they touch.