I run a small business and make less than $250,000/year and significantly less than Congressman Barletta's combined salary and allowance of more than $1million for 2012. It should be the top priority of our Congress to pass legislation that ensures that those of us in the "98%" group making less than $250,000/year will not see a tax increase of any kind come January 2013. Otherwise we should petition to have Congressman Bartletta removed from office in favor of someone that WILL vote in our favor.

Our top priority is education for our children , public education the american value we can't afford to lose it means our teachers, we need the economy to boost up and job growth. please those cuts should be stopped GOP move the country forward not backward.Let the president does his job.

A majority of Americans support increasing taxes on the top 2% of earners. A return to Clinton-era taxes will not hurt the wealthiest Americans who are paying the lowest taxes in 50 years. If we want to reduce the deficit, this is the right place to start. It is time to cooperate with our just-re-elected president and the Senate to get something done in Washington. Republicans in the house will rightly be blamed if the country goes off the so-called "fiscal cliff" It is time to stop stonewalling and grandstanding and to do what is right for the country.

Republican's can't cross the aisle to help move our Country forward. Republicans must break Norquist's insane hold on their party. More Republicans must put their country before someone else's agenda, and their Pledge of Allegiance before "The Pledge" to Norquist.

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%.