I am a union electrician who is still facing heavy unemployment rates. I live in NYC and 405 which is 350 after taking out federal tax is not an exceptable amount to even pay for the roof over your head. I am pushing for a higher unemployment rate of cash for the most expensive city too live in.

Take the pieces of the Challenger Space Shuttle and create a LIVING REEF off the coast of the KFC.

In 2006 , The Bush White House and Congress went after the Post Office with the " Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act" It requires the Post office to PRE-PAY the health care benefits for the NEXT 75 YEARS! This law requires USPS to totally fund SEVEN DECADES WORTH OF BENEFITS BY 2016!!! No other government or privately owned company is required to adhere to such a requirement. The Post Office is the #2 employer in the United States , employing 100,000 people with good union jobs. They are fully funded by the sale of stamps and related items. The USPS is the Most affordable way for Americans to mail items and it an American treasure! PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION !!!

The Single Parenting Leave Act (SPLA) is an act that I would like to be approved to protect single parents in the United States of America from being subject to discipline with their employers for attendance issues caused by or derived from fulfilling their parental responsibilities. Ex: Single Parent A is at work and receives a telephone call that his daughter is sick and needs to be picked up from school immediately. It is against this employer's policy for it's employees to have unscheduled absences without a supervisor's approval. However, Single Parent A notifies his employer of the situation and states he needs to use his employer approved Single Parenting Leave Act benefit to cover his unscheduled departure from work. The supervisor checks to see how many hours of this benefit is available for this employee, verifies there is an emergency situation taking place, and acknowledges that Single Parent A is a single parent with sole parental responsibilities, therefore approves for the Single Parenting Leave Act benefit to cover the amount of time and unscheduled departure that Single Parent A has requested. Single Parent A is immediately protected from discipline for attendance and all requests for discipline for attendance.

To require companies making over $10million a year to put 10% back to the hourly workforce in the form of a profit sharing bonus based on hours worked. This bonus is calculated BEFORE any exectutive bonuses are calculated and deducted from the profit.

To get Americans working again there has to be a level playing field for _all_ companies Big or Small. Outsourcing has to be addressed as-one-thing for all players. There has to be a FEDERAL mandate. The President can set it if it's a National Security Issue without going through Congress.

Tax reform. We need to get our government on a sound financial footing.

The Kansas legislature is considering a “tax reform” proposal from Governor Brownback that would lower the personal income tax, eliminate some tax credits and deductions, and make permanent a temporary sales tax increase. If enacted, the Brownback plan will result in higher taxes for 80% of us and lower taxes for the wealthiest 20% of Kansans. Unlike other states that have radically cut income tax rates, Kansas does not have alternative revenue streams, such as tourism or natural resources. Thus, this will reduce revenues at a time when the state should be focused on long-term improvements in the Kansas economy by spending more on education, essential services, and infrastructure. A modest increase in the tax rate of less than 1% of Kansans would increase revenues by $49 million. Just to illustrate, $49 million could: · Restore the $38 million cut from mental health services in Kansas by Gov. Brownback’s budget AND leave $11 million to fund other vital services to the sick and disabled. · Restore the $25 million that would be cut from the Kansas Department of Transportation’s highway program AND leave $24 million to repair crumbling bridges and make other critical infrastructure improvements. · Restore 98% of the $50 million cut from education by Gov. Brownback in 2011.

Get what? Revenue to run our country. Increase Taxes on the income of those who have a surplus.Think of the situation as though it were a blood drive, and pretend we had an America where every citizen cared about every other. Good citizens who had a surplus of healthy blood would happily donate some of their blood to fellow citizens who were desperately in need of blood. The sick and anemic would not be pressed to give blood. Neither should the struggling poor in America be forced to give a disproportionate portion of their meagre income to support the counry. It is outrageous that our corrupt tax laws force the poor to be taxed at a much higher rate than the enormously wealthy.

What I want them to do is to hold hearings, investigations and penalize Wall Street Market Manipulators who are speculating, price gouging, engaging in collusion in order to keep the price of gasoline artificially high at the gasoline pump. I am asking The United States Congress and the White House to also take testimony from some of the 99% of consumers who are suffering because of the price of gasoline is too expensive, and for the federal government to begin releasing gasoline from the oil reserves in order to decrease the cost of gasoline at the pump.

Banks and finance industries have long forgotten that the little people keep then in buisness. Our government has allowed the special interest groups to make loansharking legal. The president has put in place walstreet insiders that protect the wealth of large banks and special interest group. They have been responsible for the current meltdown.

From Sandy, the originator of this petition. I am not in this income bracket, but I am really curious. I would like to know how many people who make over $500,000/year want equality in tax rates and NOT preferential treatment because they are wealthy and can afford to hire accountants and tax attorneys to find ways to pay less taxes. Income is income. AND, truly how many acknowledge they were not able to do it alone--that they benefited from public investments in infrastructure, research, public education, health care, etc? Please pass along this petition and let's see what happens. THANKS!