I have co-signed a student loan with Sally Mae. It is hard to believe with goverment backing that they would be allowed to out source their customer service calls. We have college graduates on the main land that cannot pay their student loans because they have no jobs and the jobs have been out sourced to the Phillipines??? I also caught Sprint with the same issue. I believe if customers on the main land refuse to speak with out sourced customer service representatives (just hang up and call back until you get someone with a job in America) then these companies will close their out sourced offices and bring these jobs back home!!!

The "paramount duty" of Washington State is to fully fund public education, yet we rank 49th in the nation in proportion to state incomes. Wealthy, predominantly white districts do better, but even these struggle when property tax levies fail. The wealthiest individuals insulate themselves and hide behind the smokescreen of charter schools. It's time to stop finger pointing, and to get this issue solved.

A talking head said that there is only about 3-4 years of ammunition out there. We call on Congress to put a prohibitive tax on ammunition for assault, military grade weapons sold to the public. In time, this tax will reserve this ammunition for our police SWAT teams and our military. We can fight to curb mass murder in America.

In Maine, if you are looking to get your license for the first time, and you are over 18, you must wait an entire year, during which time you are required to drive with another person in the car, who is over the age of 20, for 35 hours. This is called getting your "drivers permit." You must do 35 hours of driving, 5 of which must be during the night. After that time is up, you can send in for a drivers license test date . If you are under 18, you must do this, and also a number of other stipulations are placed on you when you do get your license, which I encourage due to them being under 18. I luckily got my drivers permit before this rule switched from 6 months to a year, but sadly I will not be getting my license until probably April. Not having my license means for me that I couldn't go to school this semester while working, and after my 5PM to 1AM shift, I have to walk home in an area that is unlit, and a large portion of which does not have sidewalks. The sidewalks that are there are not always plowed after a snowstorm. Making legal, taxpaying adults not able to pursue improving their situations in life, due to a lack of public transportation in a lot of the state, and an inability to get a drivers license in a timely manner, is wrong. I say that people should be able to prove that they are road-ready drivers WITHOUT spending a year of their lives to do it.

Create a Public Bank of Colorado that operates in the public interest, remove our tax monies from private banks, and deposit them in the Public Bank of Colorado, so that we can benefit as the original 13 colonies did, and the State of North Dakota does, by not giving away our money to the failed and corrupt Wall Street banks and their subsidiaries.

In order to rebuild our country's infrastructure, re-evaluate our taxpayer spending priorities, and reduce the deficit, let's start with the billions of taxpayer dollars now being spent on waging wars abroad.

We pay for the Salaries and Benefits of the DO NOTHING CONGRESS. They are trying to kill our Unions, Social Security and Medicare in addition to privatizing teachers, firefighters, all prisons, policemen, Social Security, Medicare in an effort make themselves richer and institute slave wages in America. This goal is only topped by their unwillingness make their benefactors pay taxes and support this country that made them rich in the first place. Congress members are all MILLIONAIRES and your tax dollars made them such.

We need to reduce Pentagon spending by 1/3 to reasonably address our national debt.

Poverty can be a thing of the past in the United States if we tax the rich and corporations at a very high rate.

Ammunition is a luxury that the nation can no longer afford. People are buying 5000 rounds of ammunition in one internet transaction. We tax sodas, cigarettes, liguor and eliminate transfats from our diets because of the harm these products do. None of them come near the harm caused by bullets. Ammunition should be taxed as a luxury item. There is nothing in the Constitution prohibiting the taxing of ammunition at punative levels. These taxes would help reduce the deficit in a time when both the federal and the state governments need help.

Impose an annual tax on all firearms to be assessed through the income tax.

With the recent tragic events at Sandy Hook Elementary, it becomes clear that mental health issues in our country are integrally involved in mass shootings around our country. It is appropriate that an excise tax on gun sales be put into place in order to fund mental health programs that will be in place in early childhood to assist parents in parenting and obtaining mental health services for their children. A sales tax, similar to that imposed on cigarette sales, would provide much needed funding for mental health services.