MEDICAID, MEDICARE, and SOCIAL SECURITY did not cause the deficit and should not be part of the "fiscal cliff" negotiations. The poor and the middle class should not have their safety nets and health care slashed because of the excesses of previous administrations and the greed of Wall Street. There are many ways to decrease the deficit without hurting the poor and the middle class. Congress needs to do the right thing; let the tax cuts on the top 2% expire. Preserve the tax cuts for the 98%. Deal with other budget issues after January 1. The deficit must be addressed in a careful, thoughtful way that doesn't hurt the majority of Americans who can LEAST afford cuts in benefits and higher taxes. We urge Rep. King to reconsider his previous position of opposing the expiration of the Bush tax cuts for the top 2%.

The normal person in America cannot take a hit with more taxes. We want you to do your jobs Congress! There is not one good reason the middle income or the poor should be hit while not asking the highest incomes to do their fair share.

Calif. lets too much potential revenue go to our neighbor, Nevada. This money can be kept at home to address our budget deficit.

Rep. Scott Rigell must drop the Norquist anti-tax pledge and allow the Bush tax cuts for the top 2% to come to an end.

Between George Bush's tax cuts and Grover Norquist's whimsical "pledge" we will be lacking the "power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States" as mandated in Article I of the United States Constitution.

As a middle class taxpayer and a Medicare and Social Security recipient, I will be adversely affected by Republican proposals that seek to reduce the deficit by protecting the richest two percent of Americans.

Everyone who wishes to influence our Nation's politics, in any way, should be willing to have some "skin-in-the-game." One way to prove your willingness is to pay some Federal and State taxes.

Get rid of tax breaks for the wealthy.

Ask Rep Jackie Walorski to drop her pledge to Grover Norquist

Deliberately limiting federal income is the height of fiscal irresponsibility. refusing to raise taxes on the rich while paying for it by cutting social and medical programs for the poor is the height of hypocrisy.

To help provide tax relief for the middle class. To tax the wealth and to undue the tax loopholes that multi-million dollar companies use to get out of paying their fair share.

Although there is valid debate to be had about how to balance spending cuts and tax hikes on the wealthy, everybody agrees that people in the middle and lower classes cannot afford increased taxes.