yes we paid unfair property taxes, when we were forced to retire due to disabilities, we could not get these taxes reduced, an were forced out by confinscation, and eviction

Did you know that Clear Channel is owned by BAIN CAPITAL and MITT ROMNEY?

I am disabled and am constantly denied services from Medicaid that my doctors feel that I need. I have mechanical heart valves and Medicaid refuses to pay for PT/INR checks to monitor my blood thickness due to blood thinners that I have to take for the rest of my life. I also need shots in my knees for crippling arthritis and Medicaid always turn me down. I have a pacemaker and Medicaid paid for a machine to monitor my heart activity but refused to pay for the monthly charge that sends the information to the doctor.

The men and women in uniform who fight for our rights were unable to vote!

I am retired and is on Social Security and RMD from 401K. After market crashing due to Banking and Mortgage Crisis, the market is slowly recovering. The market lost 6 % due to the Fiscal Cliff Concern. We middle class retirees cannot afford any delay in the resolution.

I am a working citizen of the United States. I am 30. I work for a non profit organization under a grant to decrease the massive dropout rate of our school children. Under the grant, I have no health care coverage. My income is on the moderate to higher end of middle class. However, what I make is ate up by health care expenses. I was born with Diabetes Mellitus Type I. I am insulin dependent. I have been on Blue Cross Blue Shield my entire life until I took this job in 2008. I did not realize I could denied to pay for health insurance out of my own pocket that would eat up my paycheck. I am not sick. I just need normal health insurance that covers all of my medication plus my insulin pump. I am spending roughly $500/month on diabetic supplies just to keep me alive. And now Governor Robert Bentley has decided he won't set up the health care exchange that would keep me supplied with my medicine and not being in the poor house!

Consumers deserve to know if our food contains potentially harmful genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Thirty countries have placed restrictions on GMOs, but the U.S. doesn't even require a labeling system, much less regulate them, due to a powerful, wealthy biotech lobby.

Banks to be restricted to a manageable size as to allow bank to be able to go out of business for committing poor or illegal business decisions. Bank conglomerates would not be able to take over banks that are willing to give consumers reasonable rates and fees. example Commerce Banks were consumer friendly and TD Bank took over and slammed consumers with fees eliminating competition and reasonable consumer banking fees. banks know the difficulty with having to change banking every time the reasonable bank you chose gets taken over. STOP THE Greed and Arrogance

Currently there is no FICA tax liability past the first 110,000.00 of income. If this cap was done away with and everyone paid the current rate at every level of income it would put millions perhaps billions into the Social Security and Medicare fund.

Thousands of people are seriously injured every year in TX by hit-and-run drivers. The current fund to help them is seriously under-funded and taken from court fees of common criminals, who are not the ones causing the problem. This is an external cost of driving that needs to be internalized and brought back to drivers. In my hit-and-run the medical bills alone came to almost $200K, not counting the lost income and pain and suffering that were never compensated.

I, and millions of Americans, have admired the work of Paul Krugman for many years and imagined how much faster and further along our economic revovery would be if he were Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Krugman would make an enormous difference and we desperately need his expertise, vision, and guidance in Washington!

Our country is losing revenue due to offshore banking tax shelters. Increasing taxes on money that has left or is about to leave the United States will help bring some of it back, which will help conquer the debt and the deficit. All money transferred out of the United States from 1970 into tax shelters must me taxed 90% of total amount that was sent or is about to be sent offshore. That's right, 90%. Under the Eisenhower administration (a Republican, by the way), the marginal tax rate on regular income over $400,000 was 91 to 92%.