Allow all local governments to move away from property taxes to sales and income taxes as a fairer tax structure. Taxing perceived wealth is old an antiquated tax structure. Its time local governments tax structure are updated to the 21st century. HB 2230 will allow every county in Pennsylvania to have a referendum question for a 1% county sales tax to reduce school district millage rates. It will also allow every local government entity, from county to school district to levy their own Earned Income Tax (EIT) or Personal Income Tax (PIT) to provide a minimum 30% reduction in their property tax millage rates to complete elimination. If a local government decides to do reduce property tax millage rates, then their rates are frozen at the level and they can raise their income tax rates based on inflation. For school districts, they will be locked into Act 1 of Special Session of 2001. This is a comprehensive approach to ending the property tax system and moving local governments to a fair and transparent taxing system. No tax should have the ability to make you homelsess!

The proposed reduction of state income tax sounds great but once one reads the details it is not going to benefit any retirees which includes state, federal and military personnel. There is going to be lost revenue due to reduced tax rates and in order to recoup that revenue all "loopholes" in the form of all credits, deductions, and exclusions on personal income tax returns will be eliminated. Presently, most retirees have no state tax liability for retirement benefits and federal taxable social security income. The result of this legislation will cause immediate taxation of all retirement income for all retirees effective 1 Jan 2013.

Raising the minimum wage for servers and bartenders from $3.63 an hour to that of the regular minimum wage.

Kentucky Senators voted down a bill which would enable their constituents to decide whether or not gambling casinos would be allowed within the Commonwealth.

The Mifflin County School Board is proposing to subcontract the school district's 40 custodians. They want to allow a private-for profit corporation to take over the work. This would mean tax dollars leaving the county, and current employees being fired. The for-profit company will make money by hiring workers at lower wages and lower benefits. In the end, subcontracting often ends up costing districts more money in the end.

Taxing seniors who can least afford a tax increase and who are already in the retirement pipeline making ends meet with a fixed income is unconscionable. This decision should have been taken to voters instead of being decided by legislators intent on giving wealthy business owners an 86% tax cut.

Governor Brownback's plan to change the State Income Tax code would decrease the tax rate on taxpayers earning more than $30,000 from 6.45% to 4.9% (1.55% decrease), while lowering the rate on those earning less than $30,000 from 3.5% to 3% (0.5% decrease). Furthermore, Brownback would pay for the tax cuts by eliminating 23 deductions from the state tax code, including the Adoption Credit, the Child Day Care Assistance Credit and the Earned Income Credit. In addition, he would eliminate itemized deductions including the Home Mortgage Deduction, which would adversely affect middle class homeowners. Under Brownback’s plan, taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of $25,000 or less would actually see an effective increase in their state income taxes. Brownback is continuing an increased sales tax rate of 6.3% (from 5.7%) that would attempt to prevent revenue shortfalls. However, the sales tax and local property taxes, which will necessarily increase to fund services such as public schools, are far more regressive taxes than income taxes, and thus will also be paid by low and middle income Kansans.

Most Tennesseans are hard pressed to buy grocerie`s. At the cost they are today. Governor Haslam has proposed a food-tax lowering of 0.5% ! This 0.5% request is almost laughable. I propose a real food-tax lowering. Lets lower it completely. By eilminating sales tax`s on all food ! This would indeed assist all Tennessee family`s in a time, needed !

The State should Incourage companies to set up manufacturing operations here that the average educated person of Louisiana could secure a good job. The chemical and ship build industries could incourage the ledgilature to give reasons to have other industries come to Louisiana. Why don't they do so? Is it because that they don't want to compete for labor? Let's get the powers that be in our state to give incentives to manufacturers to come to Louisiana.

SC lawmakers are trying to pass an outrageous copycat bill that Florida passed last year where people that receive unemployment insurance will have to pass a drug test to receive benefits. There is no proof or empirical evidence that people that receive unemployment insurance use more drugs than people who do not. So far in Florida 98 % who have taken drug tests to receive benefits have been passed. its time we stop sterotyping people who are unemployed and stop wasting taxpayer time with bills that have no impact on the people, and get to working on bills that do.

Gas prices have completely gotten out of control and everyone I know is infuriated by it but it doesn't seem like anyone is making a move to change it. It's about time we get our voices heard. I live in Los Angeles, CA and I paid $4.45 a gallon for regular unleaded gas this week. My husband and I share a car and he takes mass transit often and it is still squeezing us financially. Please review my petition which will go to the President and Congress and sign it if you want to see change! Thank you!

The Missouri Legislature, with backing from billionaires, has been proposing anti worker legislation and so called reforms that are detrimental to workers and the poor. The proposed changes to our tax structure, workers compensation, Medicaid, and workers rights will drag this states economy down like it has in Mississippi, Alabama and all the other states who've been made more "business friendly" and poorer!!!