The governor is proposing a fifty-cent increase on the already outrageous cigarette tax,tax on candy,tax on soda....No more.

Currently, there are projects in mind to log massive amounts of Oregon's temperate rainforests this year. If these projects ensue, the forests that we know and love in Oregon will be permanently altered. The surrounding lands, which include residential lands, will be affected. Most waterways will be impacted. The mountainous headwaters where most of the logging will occur will be irreparably damaged: THE TREES PROTECT OUR WATER SOURCE! Not to mention the toxicity that will follow from an inability to flush out the chemical herbicides required by state rules to be sprayed on all cut lands! Erosion! Death of already endangered animal and plant species! So, do you want clean fresh air and water that Oregon is prized and known for? Do you want your children's children to know and appreciate the wildlife that we do right now? Do you still want to see these mountains, intact and as they stand now, for years to come? Do you want your children and relations to exist and grow healthfully? Please sign this petition!

It has been noted lately the huge amount of profits Apple has made in the past couple years and the almost $100 Billion in cash reserves the company now has. Apple has done not only through innovation but through exploitation of the Chinese people.

Coach Ayo Hart has been a vital member and developer of the Fox Lane girl's basketball community/program for the last 11 years, not only as the coach of a much-improved and competitive varsity program that has jumped up in the state rankings, but as the organizer of clinics and programs (voluntarily) to develop younger players in our district that aspire to be basketball players. Her commitment to her Fox Lane team and this program was questioned by some, and is at the root of her immediate dismissal on 1/17/12. Many of her players and their parents, as well as those who have engaged with Coach Hart personally and professionally, do not agree with this assessment, but were not asked how we felt before the Board voted on 1/25.

Grover Norquist, a protege of Ronald Reagan, is President of Americans for Tax Reform. The basic work of this group is to get all levels of elected officials to sign a pledge to not raise taxes in any situation. Confusingly they are not against raising taxes on Middle Class Americans? The following link would be funny except this unelected person is a major reason for our National Deficit: Http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/12/grover-norquist-tax-orgy-onion_n_1202630.html

Instead of Walmart demanding that companies produce products cheaper in China, they should demand that American companies produce them as cheap as they can in America. So please sign this petition.

America has more people wanting work than it has jobs, thanks in part to automation. Let's take up the slack by giving workers a sabbatical. I suggest a flexible system so people could choose when to redeem their sabbatical credits. The length of the credits would depend on the ratio of workforce to jobs and the sabbatical pay rate would depend on the economy and the individual's reported income taxes; unemployment insurance would be renamed a sabbatical tax. Turn unemployment into something that is earned instead of spurned. Let young workers work before they get to take a break. Almost every business or institution already offers vacations to their workers; simply expand the concept. See the following for more details: http://shareliterature.com/shareliterature.com/Replace_Unemployment.html

Currently our unemployment is put on a debit card and processed by major banks. In fact J.P. Morgan has had so much business they needed more help. They outsourced those jobs to India. I believe all unemployment money and jobs should stay here.

Americans should all share the cost of an effective, functioning government. There's no reason that teachers, laborers, and working Americans of all stripes should pay a lower tax rate that Mitt Romney.

Please do not allow the republicans to destroy employment for the hard working union workers that are educated, trained and work in safe work environments. We need to become strongly United to stop this crazy stupid move that our government wants to do to us. United We Stand Divided We Fall!!!!!

Stop the right to work on IN!

It makes no sense to dole out massive new tax cuts to the wealthy while stripping low-income and disabled Mainers of needed healthcare services and consequently putting 4,400 healthcare providers out of work. At no time since the Great Depression have America’s wealthy elite enjoyed a lower tax rate then they do right now. Tell your legislators and Governor LePage you want the wealthiest 1% to pay their fair share.