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!

I would like to know how many people in the top 1% or 5% 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.

There are many unemployed people in the United States. When you call a company these days a computer answers instead of a person. If you don't know who to contact it is very frustrating. Computer answering should be banned, all companies should be required to have a person answer the phone who is a resident of the United States and a citizen of the United States.

American's should be empowered to choose cleanest, safest, most affordable non-petroleum motor fuel that best serves their needs; today those fuels are electricity and natural gas. To make this happen auto & truck makers must be motivated to mass produce affordable natural gas and electric vehicles. Fuel developers must be motivated to deploy fuel stations in locations that meet consumer needs. This requires POLICY LEADERSHIP. I'm calling on President Obama and the Congress to enact policy that empowers the CONSUMER to CHOOSE the motor fuels and vehicles that best serve their needs.

President Obama should not accept his nomination for re-election as planned in Bank of America park in Charlotte, NC. This would send a signal to this major culprit of our financial crisis that we will not put up with their practices anymore.

President Obama should not accept his nomination for re-election as planned in Bank of America park in Charlotte, NC. This would send a signal to this major culprit of our financial crisis that we will not put up with their practices anymore.