• 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
  • Forgive All Outstanding Student Debt
    $120 Billion worth of student loans are already in default. Total FEDERAL debt is at $956 billion. Even more is owed privately. The country and our young people are drowning in student debt. The government bailed out banks and Wall Street. It should bail out its citizens.
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    Created by Sharalyn Bell
  • Save Medicare soo easily!
    Why are contributions limited to ONLY the first $110,000. of earnings? All my life (61 years of working) (and since the inception of Medicare of course) 100 percent of my earnings were subject to Medicare contributions. My school teacher daughter's TOTAL earnings are subject to Medicare contributions! Why doesn't anyone exposé this very large tax loophole limited to the rich?
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    Created by H Roberts
  • Make Mega-Companies Pay Taxes!
    About 30 of the top Fortune 500 companies not only pay NO taxes, but they receive government subsidies. This includes companies like AT&T, Verizon, GE, etc. Others pay taxes, but tiny percentages, like Fed Ex, which pays a .09% rate. Their earnings are so astronomical that even if they paid a low rate, we would not have a deficit for long. Middle class people are carrying the tax burden for not only the poor, but often for the rich as well, and this is not right!
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    Created by Laura Vines
  • Fix Social Security
    Social Security is solvent until 2038. But there are four things we can do to make it better:
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    Created by L J Furman
  • Reduce government spending; stop all corporate subsidies.
    Reducing or preferably eliminating all corporate subsidies, beginning with the oil companies, is a better alternative to reduce the US Government spending deficit than reducing or eliminating benefits for Social Security , Medicare, Medicaid and other safety met than benefits the poor and middle class.
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    Created by vytas gedutis
  • LULA GILLIAM
    Atlanta City Council just increased their salary by 52%! Given the economy and the fact that many workers in Atlanta have lost their jobs, I think this is an insensitive slap in the face, not deserved and should be revoked.
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    Created by LULA GILLIAM
  • Congress, vote yourself a pay cut!
    The current salary (2013) for rank-and-file members of the House and Senate is $174,000 per year. For all its rhetoric, the US congress has done an exceedingly poor job dealing with the federal defecit and mounting national debt. As a symbol of its commitment to solve these problems, congress should give itself a 75 percent pay cut, to $43,500 per year. When the federal budget becomes balanced and the defecit is near zero, it can restore its pay.
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    Created by Eldewins Haynes
  • Cut Spending Cut Congress Pay
    Congress lacks common sense to do whats right for the nation. They need to be held accountable to those who elected them. This can be accomplished by punishing them through their paycheck . Let the first budget cut be their pay for poor performance. Make a difference today, let your voice be heard.
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    Created by Sue
  • Savings Bonds to Reduce the National Debt
    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.
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    Created by Mitchell Muskin