Any money sent out of the country should be subjected to % tax as best determined by the Congress, Senate, and President.

Money is being siphoned off to the top 1% of our society. Everyone experiences the negative effects of this very deep problem. We are asking the California State Legislature to allocate money to subsidize community centers for the purpose of coordinating the common people's goods and services, needs and abilities via computers. This could happen on an exchange basis using credits for products, skills and services rendered.

"As a music journalist with deep Arts & Entertainment contacts who could use a long term, on-going, life sustaining regular paycheck including safe, adequate housing & healthcare it's self evident that musicians properly coordinated, rallying for a cause can & do make a fiscal & social difference. Initiate now a national referendum to immediately create ongoing & forever national, regional, local resources with help from, by & with the music biz to address each community's specialized needs (jobs-health care-education-housing)"

I and many of you are waking up everyday facing foreclosures, repossesions, bankruptcies, utilities being cut off and not being able to put food on the table. The government has bailed out corporate America time and time again. I believe that its time for the government to bail out all Americans that are struggling day to day. If the government would allow a one time debt forgiveness for all of us, based upon our current income the amount of debt that we have all accumulated we would could all sleep a lot better at night and not be afraid to answer the phone in fear of bill collectors.

Fresno's mayor and some city council members want to privatize--sell off--residential solid waste (our city trash service). They claim it will be good for the city and for ratepayers, but the truth is, rates will skyrocket and service will suffer. It's an ill-advised backdoor tax we can't afford.

Why does big business get big tax breaks for staying here in Illinois and then they layoff lots of employees??? What are they good for???

I am an insurance agent for a Fortune 100 company and I am amazed at how many "bogus" ticket stories I hear. I am NOT referencing the blatant speeders as they deserve their tickets. But the ones that are obvious quota tickets used to generate city funds. These tickets wreak havoc on people's lives who don't have the money to pay them, then get arrested. Or if you go to court and fight back the judge throws it out or gives you a "operating unsafe vehicle" ticket and you still have to pay court costs. All this does is generate money for the cities and more money for insurance companies via higher premiums. It's still wrong and creating undue duress on the very taxpayers that pay salaries!

This petition will help establish the principal that all income should be subject to FICA. Currently the FICA maximum for any one year is about 110,000. This means that anyone with taxable income over $1,000,000 can reach their FICA max in about 3 days. Most everyone else has to work the rest of the year to approach their FICA max. By eliminating the cap, everyone will pay to the last dollar earned. This will ensure that social security will be secure for all future generations. This is personally important to me because I want to ensure that social security is there for my children and grandchildren.

The petition regards rich people who avoid paying their fair share of taxes. Every American is affected because the government has less money to support programs that benefit everyone.

It's about time that State Representatives are held accountable for what they vote and stand for.

My name is Maria Morales. I'm a grandmother from Racine, Wisconsin, and I'm a constituent of Rep. Paul Ryan, the new Republican candidate for vice president. I don't like to complain, but this year has been very difficult for me. After being laid off, I had an appendectomy, and then my doctors told me I have three clogged arteries in my brain. My son has a spinal cord condition. The health care bills are piling up, and I rely on my unemployment insurance to survive. That's why I was so concerned when I found out that my representative, Paul Ryan, was leading efforts to cut off unemployment insurance for people like me. He's also cut Medicaid and wants to end Medicare, which would really be devastating. I first requested a meeting with Paul Ryan more than a year ago to discuss how his policies are hurting people like me. My hope was that he would hear my story and reconsider. At the very least I deserve to have my voice heard. I am still waiting for that meeting. I have called Paul Ryan's office again and again, willing to meet anywhere for even just a few minutes. I've even gone to DC to try to meet him there. Later, when I and some other people from my community dropped by his office, his staff called the police. Eventually I got so fed up that I went to his office and simply refused to leave. I waited for 7 days, and still I'm waiting. I can't find work, and this December, my jobless benefits will run out. Then I really don't know what I will do, and there are many others in my community with similar situations. During last year's summer recess, which was an entire month long, Rep. Ryan didn't hold a single town hall meeting in his district. But he did meet with high donors numerous times. I think it's wrong that my congressman has time to meet with large funders, but not the people he's hurting in his district. I'm asking Rep. Paul Ryan to find time, even a few minutes, to meet with me. I'll even just meet on the phone, since his schedule is busy. I ask Paul Ryan to stop dodging his constituents and meet with me, Racine resident Maria Morales, and the other people in my community hurt by his cuts to unemployment insurance, health care, and other programs.

Congress adjourned without the House picking up or acting on the Senate Farm Bill, in the face of the worst heat and drought of U.S. History. Constitutionally (Article II, Section 3) to call Congress back into session and not let them adjourn "on exceptional occasions." The House should meet and pass a bill at this time of crisis, and an agreed final bill passed and signed.