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.

Not only is he the world's best-known economist, Krugman has the intellect and integrity to resist Wall Street's calls for austerity - The Guardian

Everyday I keep seeing commercial after commercial about people asking the public too give too their so called non profit organization,their religious organizations and overseas donations,problem is their company car is about 80k,their homes are between 300k and millions and their travel expense is through the roof,I am tired of these people who claim too be helping others while helping themselves before anyone else.This should be against the law because their profit seems too be in all the material things they get from their so called non profit organization and no donation should be considered as a gift and if it is then the public should be told that they can not use it as a tax write off.

I am a resident of the city of Mt Vernon for twenty four years. The school tax accounts for the highest percentage of our tax revenue. Every year this increases and our children's education keeps decreasing. Governor Cuomo's recently imposed a TAX CAP OF two percent tax cap on the city tax in Westchester. The problem the city council has for the second year ignored the move and voted to over ride the cap.The practice of voting for this over ride must each year must stop now.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) and the U.S. Supreme Court have subverted the Second Amendment for the benefit of gun manufacturers. The NRA tax exempt status reduces the revenue available for much more worthy causes, which in effect reduces the effectiveness of contributions by U.S. taxpayers.

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?