According to PolitiFact.com, more Americans have died in gun-related deaths than in all U.S. wars since the Revolutionary War. The U.S. has the highest gun-related death rate of all developed countries! We must end this public health travesty.

surcharges are addition to any fines/ penalties and are billed for 3 years. These surchages can cause you to loose you job,car,home,etc,.What happens to all of the excess money that is collected by the state of New Jersey??

the programs that help people with food stamps and cash a lot of them have been cut and there are very important to low income families please bring them back

no more cuts to education, health; education and health is very important for every body , why we should have to save money if we have not good health good schools take care of old people ; my heart break when i see on the street old people asking for help please for god sake be human member of the congress, senate and governor you never know your future if you want to save money start for yourself

Carl's Jr. ads are sexist.

HOW SO MANY OFF OUR ANIMAL ARE HUNTED OR ABUSED OR KILLED. I WOULD LOVE FOR THIS STATE TO SHOW HOW MUCH WE LOVE AND CARE FOR ANIMALS. WE SSHOULD THE REST OF THE WORLD HOW GREAT WE ARE.

Give us Medicare coverage for ALL!

Take all the money out of politics. Not only should we overturn Citizens United, but we also demand using only public money from our taxes to fund short, substantive campaigns. We demand free TV time for policy speeches and debates with the public's questions. There should be no more 30 second sound bites. Politicians would need to talk policy in the (let's say) six weeks of a campaign cycle.

The greedy state government in Honolulu is again trying to deprive us of our fair share of the visitor tax. This means higher taxes for all outer islanders if it passes.

ICE, the federal agency in charge of deportations, is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on inhumane tracking of immigrants facing deportation. Thousands of people are forced to wear ankle monitors and suffer random home inspections -- even though many of these people have no criminal history and pose little flight risk. While just 3% of criminals on probation wear ankle monitors, 29% of the 21,000 immigrants in this heightened supervision program live with these devices 24 hours a day, even plugging them in to recharge while they sleep at night. Behavioral Interventions, a subsidiary of private prison company Geo Group, is receiving $378 million from ICE to monitor immigrants this way. There should be no profit in this process. It's excessive, it's wrong, and it's up to us to make our voices heard for fairness and humanity in the treatment of America's immigrants.

I returned from selling art in New Orleans where, since the failure of the Levees, New Orleans has had this method of nurturing art and artists in their work and supporting collectors of art to participate in culture by connecting with and supporting local artists. It is good for tourism, world opinion of the city and it cultivates culture directly with very little bureaucratic handling.

To the dismay of parents, the Florida PTA, other parents groups and their supporters, the Parent Empowerment in Education Bill, a.k.a Florida’s “Parent Trigger” bill, has once again been introduced into the Florida House of Representatives and Senate. After failing last year due to the concerted efforts of parents and parent groups, legislators saw fit to reintroduce the bill once again to see if Florida parents and their supporters had changed their minds regarding this issue. Such insistence on a “parent trigger” bill in Florida can only be described in the manner that Diane Ravitch, the former Secretary of Education, describes “parent trigger” policy in general:“ It is the quintessence of a corporate power grab.” As stocks for corporations managing charter schools rise, the passing of a bill that would streamline the creation of more charter schools from these “triggered” public schools amounts to a systematic attack on public education in favor of for-profit businesses that aim to privatize the education system. The variety of points in opposition to Parent Empowerment in Education bill has been concisely summarized by the Florida PTA: 1) Why would legislators reintroduce a bill that was vehemently opposed by a significant number of parent groups? 2) Uses the rhetoric of parent love and empowerment to hand a neighborhood school over to a private entity with no guarantees for a better alternative. 3) Promotes for-profit charter takeover thus robbing Florida taxpayers of a capital investment as for-profit charters do not answer to any elected official. Furthermore, the corporation managing the charter school profits from public, taxpayer dollars. 4) Pits parents against themselves during the petition process and pits parents against teachers by raising suspicion on the ability of every teacher. 5) Allows for multiple opportunities for virtual vendors to market and lobby to parents. 6) Strips away local School Board control as the Board of Education ultimately makes the decision on the turnaround option. 7) Ignores pre-existing laws that allows School Advisory Councils consisting of parents, teachers, and community partners to determine the direction of an underperforming school.