Citizens have a right to own guns, but certain guns have particularly high costs to society. Therefore, they should be taxed to defray those costs or prevent those costs from accruing. These taxes should provide funding for improved school security, psychiatric services focused on reducing violence, and compensation for victims of violence from the weapons most likely to be used in attacks which will have multiple victims.

Request for every Mayor in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to become a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns and publicly endorse Demand A Plan

Congress passes laws that effect only themselves at the expense of the people. They deserve no more than we the people of the United States.

make 2013 the year of Herb Jeffries. That is to recognize the lifetime achievements of Herb Jeffries, great singer of Flamingo, and more, with Duke’s greatest ‘Blanton Webster era’ band. HJ was also the creator of the Bronze Buckaroo movies. The great thing is that this American hero is still alive and about to turn 100 this year.

Secretary Clinton should be considered as a candidate for Supreme Court Justice.

replace Representative Darryl Issa from California, waisting money on frivolus investigations, accusations slowing progress in the house of representatives and in the senate and for voting jobs out of california to give to other states the man is out of control and he has to go. he is waisting california assets and slowing down our recovery in the californian regios

On our pay stubs, we've all seen those nasty FICA deductions . This is how our Federal Government uses our hard-earned money to fund both Social Security and Medicare. BUT, wealthier individuals actually pay a much lower percentage rate than the rest of us. If we all pay the same FICA rate for Medicare, then we should all pay the same FICA rate for Social Security!. Once again, MAKE THE RICH PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE TO SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY.

Even though the thought of additional taxes is hard to swallow right now, American citizens trying to pay for their own health insurance and/or their healthcare will be a grave issue for middle and low income families by the year 2014. I believe that it is possible that a Federal Sales Tax of just .5% could fund healthcare insurance for all citizens. I would like to see such a tax on all purchased items except food, gas and tobacco (the latter two being taxed enough already) WITHOUT ANY CAPS. This is a fair tax and easy to administrate as it will not be based on reported income, but accurately computed and collected at the point of sale. Without caps the amounts will be proportionally equal. Example: A person buys a new car in SC for $20,000.00 and his sales tax on that purchase is $1000.00 (@.05%) and another person buys a car in SC for $80,000.00 and their uncapped sales tax is $$4000.00 (@.05%). If a person can afford a more expense car then he/she should be able to afford to pay their proportionally equal share of sales taxes.

I, for one, am getting pretty sick of congressman accepting what amounts to bribes from special interest groups. In light of the road the NRA (National Rifle Association) has taken this country over the last couple decades, I think these bribes (i.e. "contributions") are especially egregious. So dear congresspeople: If you count money from the NRA to fund their campaign war chests, you can count us out.

The unclaimed property funds in all of the states could provide new tax revenues for Federal use in new job creation across America. There are billions of dollars in these funds nationwide. The IRS should be owed taxes on the majority of these funds and I believe that they should be able to claim a large portion of those claims..

Keith Doolin was wrongfully convicted in 1996. The court has established that a miscarriage of justice has occurred in this case. Much delayed D.N.A. testing finally excluded Keith Doolin as a suspect, on October 3rd, 2011. Yet he remains on death row in San Quentin in 2013. I ask that Keith Doolin be exonerated immediately.

Keith Doolin was 21 years old when he was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned in 1996. It has now been disclosed in the Habeas Corpus that his attorney was negligent and did not provide necessary information to his trial experts or to the jury and failed to interview witnesses. On 10-3-2011 Keith Doolin was proven innocent by D.N.A. testing but has not yet been released. Our justice system is in bad need of repair and Keith Doolin, an innocent man, MUST be exonorated after sitting behind bars for 18 years.