When corporations pay civil or criminal settlements, these are treated as legitimate business expenses. Should oil companies and other polluters be allowed to recover criminal and civil settlement expenses as legitimate tax deductions?

The future of the majority of Americans who have paid into and expected to receive back Social Security in the time of their life when they need it the most should not be compromised in order to give a tax break to the wealthiest Americans among us.

Income taxes are a deterrent to economic prosperity and the 16th admendment that allows income taxes needs to be repealed. Without income taxes everyonoe would have more money to spend and large companies would flock to the USA to build factories and improve our economy. A national sales tax would generate enough money for the government as it now gets from income taxes and the price of retail goods would remain about the same since from manufactures, to wholesalers to retail stores could make the same net profit since they would not have to account for income taxes in their calculations. This would be fair since those that spend the most would pay the most in taxes, there would be no loopholes, US companies could better compete with foreign companies and people that visit the USA would support our economy when they purchase things in the states. .

I am tired of republicans insisting that the way out of this recession is to further concentrate wealth in the hands of the wealthy. They won't spend it and haven't so far. Why do they insist on pushing these policies? Because of political contributions, obviously.

Refusing to raise the debt ceiling is not a tool it is treason. No government money should go to states whose congress people refuse to raise the debt ceiling or who even use the debt ceiling as a weapon to get their way. Their states should help pay the unnecessary extra interest rate costs they would cause.

If discrimination in any form is wrong, discrimination against the long term unemployed in a time of economic disparity is criminal; we need to tell the federal and state governments there can be no economic recovery in the United States until people are given a fair chance to work regardless of how long they have been out of work.

End the subsidies being given to "Big Oil".

Millions of people live on their Social Security benefits and cannot live with a cut these. They also rely on Medicare . They have nowhere to turn if these benefits are cut. There is another way to add billions s to the U.S. Treasury:stop oil and gas subsidies!

Raise federal tax revenue with a new tax on buys and sells of securities of all publicly-held corporations.

Allowing the payroll tax reduction to expire will directly hit the middle class and working poor. It takes more than 2years for them to recover from 10 years of abuse from Corporations and Banksters of the 1 percent.

My husband is in concrete construction as a co-owner. 20 yrs. ago he made three hundred dollars net pay more per week than he does today. Concrete is a craft as well as a skill. I heard recently that there is a cap on wages in our city of Panama City and I feel it is not right. Soooo not right. I feel that I could get the appropriate signatures.

Our economy cannot afford another showdown on the debt limit. Congress should not hold our national credit rating hostage to partisan political power plays.