The current IRS code gives a massive tax credit to multinational corporations that pay taxes to operate in foreign countries. Each year, over $100 billion dollars are lost to our treasury, and used to subsidize the offshoring of American jobs, at a time of 14% real domestic unemployment.

Ingredients lists on food should be 100% transparent. Listing what is GMO is just a start.

Many of us object to United Methodist law that pastors cannot marry LGBT people, and the Church has tried some who did. A pastor under Bishop McLee performed the wedding of his son and his partner. Stopping this trial attacks a bad law to try to end it being enforced.

Any scientist can tell you that Hemp Production is the key to Global Sustainability in fibers, fuels, pharmaceuticals and can solve our energy independence. Please join this action in letting the powers-that-be that we will not stand for a hemp Embargo.

Any scientist can tell you that Hemp Production is the key to Global Sustainability in fibers, fuels, pharmaceuticals and can solve our energy independence. Please join this action in letting the powers-that-be that we will not stand for a hemp Embargo.

Brianna is an 11 year old girl who is paralyzed from the neck down from a tragic car accident. She is dependent on a ventilator to breath and requires 24 hour nursing care. She wants to meet Bruno Mars and is going to his concert July 11th at the Palace of Auburn Hills. We would love for him to make some time to spend with her. It would GO SO FAR!!! Please sign the petition and let's see if we can reach him!

We need direct democracy at the federal level to counteract the influence of corporate lobbies on Congress. Apartheid was ended in South Africa only through a national referendum. We need a constitutional amendment establishing a national referendum as a direct expression of the will of the people.

The Congress keeps abusing the funds and disrespecting the retired people that made the fund solvent. .Fi.c.a.. is a payroll tax paid in equal parts by the employee and employer for every hour worked. It is not an entitlement it's a non-negotiable earned benefit.

Child poverty has dire consequences. Nearly all social problems in United States are heavily correlated with child poverty. Children who grow up in poverty are less healthy, trail in emotional and intellectual development, are more likely to drop out of high school and are less likely to find steady work as adults*. Poor children also are likely to become the poor parents of the future. *A high school dropout costs taxpayers as much as $288,000, according to the research organization The Policy Group for Florida’s Families and Children. According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, in the United States, a child is born into poverty every 32 seconds and 21 percent of children in the U.S. live in households with income below the federal poverty level. It is outrageous that the richest country in the world tolerates children living in poverty in America today. This movement believes that ending child poverty in the United States must be the highest priority of government. The economic future of our country and the stability of the communities we live in depend on achieving this goal. The objective of citizen-led, non-partisan, non-profit Movement To Petition The End of Our Children’s Lives of Poverty is to inform our political, business and civic leaders, and the parents and people of this city, about this issue, build support for measures that will end child poverty and give children the best chance to be successful. We call upon the President and Congress to make ending child poverty their highest priority so that children do not live in poverty in America. I will only vote for those who do so.

Let's stop wasting time on debating and legislating different CostOfLivingAdjustments for so many things. This big debate on fiddling with the Social Security COLA is a perfect example.

Welfare recipients attest under penalty of perjury that they are separate households from anyone else with whom they reside. This means that all income earned by others is excluded from determination of eligibility. Often, parents or others close to the applicant provide rent reciepts and attest to preparing food separately. Yet, many of these family members claim the welfare recipients as dependents on their income tax return, obtaining tax credits and reduced tax liabilty. Though illegal, there is no current audit program, and the welfare records are protected under privacy laws. Your representative in Congress should be alerted to the need for a task force to investigate this type of fraud and to put a program in place that will prevent its continuance. Additionally, all individual taxpayers should be granted access to welfare records when cases in which they may be implicated are brought to the attention of the taxing authorities.

The Maine legislature has denied Cost Of Living Adjustment to state retirees. COLA had been in effect for over 30 years. All of us elderly retirees have been grievously hurt by this reduction in calculated retirement while dealing with increased taxes and living expenses.