Go to link: http://wh.gov/IYtl to sign petition at WhiteHouse.gov. Promote an Amendment to the U. S. Constitution to guarantee unbiased tax-payer funded Elections for all of our Citizens. Promote an Amendment to the Constitution to rectify, guarantee and create a Unbiased Tax-payer funded (a minimun fee) Federal Elections and Polling Commission (similar to the Federal Reserve). All other moneys would be illegal with a minimum fine of 100 times the amount of the contribution/gift (including to Incubents and Challengers). All Elections and Polling (Federal, State and Local) would a month long and would be done on-line based on a combined data-base of the States, IRS, Social Security, Medicare ,Medicade and Re-election Committees. There would be a Federal Holiday on the final day once a year. The State/Local Election Commissions would be become part of the new Federal Commission. Influence of Lobbists would be marginal-ized and Citizens-United made mute. A real Legacy!!

During the presidential campaign, the difference between President Obama and Mitt Romney on dealing with the "fiscal cliff" could not have been clearer, and now that the American people have spoken, it is equally clear whose position they favored. As negotiations proceed in Congress, our representatives should hold the line on letting the Bush tax cuts for the top 2% expire and protecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Ask the well-off to pay their fair share and help keep the safety net in place.

Let's follow Roosevelt's policies after the Great Depression. We need to get the economy moving again, just like he did.

The Senate has passed an extension of the middle class tax cuts, but the GOP controlled House has refused to allow a vote on the measure. If there is no vote prior to Dec 31, then taxes for all will go back up. The President has asked the House to take up the Senate bill and indicated he would sign it. Minority Leader Pelosi has initiated a discharge petition that requires 218 signatures to force a vote--that means that all Democrats and 25 Republicans need to sign this discharge petition before a vote can take place.

The Senate has passed an extension of the middle class tax cuts, but the GOP controlled House has refused to allow a vote on the measure. If there is no vote prior to Dec 31, then taxes for all will go back up. The President has asked the House to take up the Senate bill and indicated he would sign it. Minority Leader Pelosi has initiated a discharge petition that requires 218 signatures to force a vote--that means that all Democrats and 25 Republicans need to sign this discharge petition before a vote can take place. That's why I created a petition to Rep. Tom Reed (NY29).

As Eliot Spitzer says, this idea is supported by a wide range of economists, including Nobel laureate James Tobin, as well as advocates, including Ralph Nader in the Washington Post [4] this weekend, and elected officials: a tax on financial transactions. It will give us gobs of revenue. It will fall on a sector that has generated enormous and unwarranted profits for a very few, who at the same time have benefited from huge bailouts and regulatory help and largely escaped any responsibility for their central role in creating the financial cataclysm that we are still struggling with. And as Spitzer says, there is an added benefit here: Trading in the equity and debt markets has gone wild over the past few years. High-speed trading and speculation have overtaken the economically legitimate reasons for our desire to have highly liquid markets: the capacity to raise capital and then allocate it efficiently among sectors and companies. The trading that has emerged over the past few years is not serving that purpose—it is a casino enterprise driven by hidden pools and computer algorithms that do not seek to hold capital for longer than an instant. To the extent that a financial-transfer tax drove some of those trading practices out of the marketplace, that would be another good outcome.

The recent election was a clear mandate of the people: We voted to end tax cuts for the top 2% and to demand that there will be no cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security....vital programs for the middle class and working people, children, and seniors, We are backing our Senators Feinstein and Boxer and President Obama to not give one inch on these vital programs and telling our Representative Ed Royce to support the mandate of his constituents, the 98% that he represents, over the interests of the wealthy 2%.

US Congress Add a 25% TAX RATE Hike above what you all ready pay. Or meet the tax cliff deadline.Show us you are in this by raising taxes on the top 2% to 80%. It has been done before and the Nation did just fine. Keep us out of a recession or allow jobless numbers to determine what percent to be added on top of your current tax base. Remember that top 2% taxes increase will not pay off the debt alone however it should go along way to help the homeless, starving, ill to obtain the basics needs. The top 2% should be taxed at no less than 50% above the current rate of taxation not to exceed 85 % overall We need to show compassion to the poverty, middle class, all of which well exceeds the upper 2%.

Wealthy Americans have not been paying their fair share of taxes here in the US: taxes upon wealthy Americans must be increased before the end of December, 2012!

President Obama and the Democrats WON--we voted for the top 2% to pay more (back to Cllinton era tax rates) and to protect the middle class. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid must be protected and are NOT part of the fiscal cliff problem the GOP created.

President Obama and the Democrats WON--we voted for the top @5 to pay more (back to Cllinton era tax rates). Protecting the middle class, Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid must be protected and are NOT part of the fiscal cliff problem the GOP created.