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With gas both liquid and gaseous becoming cheaper due to the Presidents compromises and the industriousness and riches in the land of the free, DO NOT tax at the pomp where the litmus pay big taxes to go to low pawing jobs far away from where they live. Take away the tax breaks from the barons who profit from their government subsidies, and promote their and our addiction to the BLACK gold. Tax the high rollers who actually destroy our infrastructure with their monstrous rigs.

Submitted by James Lastovich in Taxes & Budget Jan. 12, 2015, 4:22 p.m.

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#2376

11 votes

ELIMINATE the Alternative Minimum Tax for under $150K. CREATE new tax brackets, rates & AMT rates: $500K--41%, 25% AMT; $750K--42.5%, 27.5% AMT; $1M--46%, 30% AMT; $2.5M--50%, 35% AMT; $5M--53.5%, 38.5%% AMT; $10M--60%, 45% AMT; $25M--65%, 50% AMT; $50M--75%, 60% AMT; $100M--80%, 65% AMT; $500M--90%, 75% AMT; $1B--95%, 80% AMT; $2.5B--97.5%, 85% AMT; $5B--99%, 90% AMT.

Submitted by Timothy Salt in Taxes & Budget Jan. 12, 2015, 11:49 a.m.

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#2376

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Separate Regular Ed. funding from Special Ed funding. Both are important and regulated by Federal mandates. Some education funding flows into private education, vouchers, home schooling, and, I've heard, our military training. When the funding is lumped together the public makes assumptions about where the money is going. I'd like to see the Federal education funding shown as dollars per student in each category. $2 billion looks great until shown as $500 per student.

Submitted by Sunny in Education Jan. 15, 2015, 2:26 p.m.

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Limit an individual's social power with money. Instantiating an 80% tax on all wealth accumulation (salary or capital gains) after, say, $1.5 million. Another route would be to allow individual's to choose to invest or get taxed. We must recognize that as flawed humans, no person has the capacity to wield large sums of money without potentially doing mass damage to others.

Submitted by Mike S in Taxes & Budget Jan. 10, 2015, 4:59 p.m.

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#2376

11 votes

Interest Rate Caps (Federal Anti-Usury Statute) and Retirement of Personal Debts: 1) "Get The 'US' Out of USURY": re-institute anti-usury laws at the Federal level (no more exceptions for states like Delaware) with an absolute interest rate cap of 10%; and 2) Repayment of Credit Card Debt: all credit card charges are to be paid off in the order in which they were incurred (chronological order), and AS SOON AS 150% of the original purchase price has been repaid, that debt is PAID IN FULL

Submitted by Donald K. from CA in Economy & Jobs Jan. 13, 2015, 1:30 a.m.

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During the 1960s we went to the Moon largely because of idealism and because Russia would have made use of the Moon to try to take over this planet. We need to go back to the moon before 2020 so that those countries who are not at all thrilled with us see the Moon as a safe heaven. We would also start colony there that is free for all to visit and eventually live. The restoration of the original Constellation program to take us there and to then to Mars and of course the Asteroids.

Submitted by Gregg in Infrastructure & Technology Jan. 4, 2015, 4:27 p.m.

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11 votes

restructure the term lengths for Congress. Lessen the term Senators serve to four years and increase the House of Representatives to four years with a 3 term limit. The elections should coincide with the Presidential election every four years so if the voters are dissatisfied with the current administration and Congress they have the opportunity to vote an entirely new set of politicians into office

Submitted by Rit S. from NY in Government & Elections Jan. 15, 2015, 1:18 p.m.

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10 votes

Create a division of the Dept of Education to develop a curriculum (preschool through high school AND adult education) for Critical Thinking and Metacognition (see Wikipedia) that will include the latest practical findings in neuroscience, psychology, social psychology, behavioral economics and information science. Updated at regular intervals (say 3-5 years) it would assist citizens in focusing on the evidence base and best practice analysis of public issues.

Submitted by Boska Robert in Education Jan. 15, 2015, 10:52 a.m.

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10 votes

Youth Organization that will help youth make good choices as it relates to self-destruction, destruction of others and their communities. Entity is currently registered and is a work in progress.

Submitted by anna J. from GA in Society & Community Jan. 5, 2015, 4:32 p.m.

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Create a detailed spreadsheet of the line items the federal and state budgets, accessible on the web. Let taxpayers indicate what line item they want their taxes to go to. Presently most people are completely alienated from the evil "Tax and spend Government" as they do not see what their tax dollars support. The proposed webpage will help people understand that their money goes to schools and roads. This also helps us who abhor war to make sure that our dollars do not go to killing people.

Submitted by Prof. Z in Taxes & Budget Jan. 13, 2015, 10:02 p.m.

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10 votes

Support a program for universal Early Childhood Education that is developmentally appropriate, affordable and accessible to ALL children birth to Kindergarten entry. Ensure that teachers in such programs are qualified and paid on par with K-12 teachers.

Submitted by Linda O. from CA in Education Jan. 15, 2015, 11:42 p.m.

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Ban export of any and all energy products (Coal, petroleum products, nuclear energy sources, etc.) that have been sourced from Federal Lands, as a high priority National Security item. Those energy sources belong to all of us, and must stay within our borders.

Submitted by D. W. from OR in Infrastructure & Technology Jan. 15, 2015, 11:46 p.m.

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Amend the constitution so that if the any law is ever struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional, then all legislators who voted in favor of said law (including local, state, and federal) shall be immediately stripped of office and barred from ever holding any political office again.

Submitted by nageljr in Government & Elections Jan. 10, 2015, 4:38 p.m. 2

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10 votes

Base the immigration policy on the current economic demand as determined by the labor department.

Submitted by Rohit K. from VA in Government & Elections Jan. 4, 2015, 11:33 p.m.

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All money, private and Government given to fund elections goes into one fund and is distributed between the candidates evenly. There would be one fund for all the Presidential and Vice president candidates, another fund for senators, another for the congressmen and so on down.

Submitted by Greg V in Government & Elections Jan. 15, 2015, 9:24 p.m.

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The only reason to continue coal mining in the US is keeping the 100,000 jobs. Fund a Federal program to retrain, relocate, and/or pension out those employees. We could be coal-free in less than 10 years and easily meet our pollution reduction targets.

Submitted by PCIdeas in Infrastructure & Technology Jan. 15, 2015, 11:57 a.m.

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#2387

10 votes

A state wide board exam in core courses based on the standard national curriculum should determine the graduation from a high school.

Submitted by Rohit K. from VA in Education Jan. 4, 2015, 11:53 p.m.

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10 votes

End Cannabis Prohibition. Medicinal ,Culinary, and Industrial uses of cannabis can greatly reduce many detrimental impacts to our environment and provide better sources for food, shelter, energy, clothing, medicine and even be used as a battery component to save and store energy.

Submitted by BtheBiggerPerson in Environment Jan. 15, 2015, 12:20 p.m.

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#2387

10 votes

Mandate that Social Security funds may only be invested in government securities that are used for individual educational loans, infrastructure, research and economic loans and/or bonds. Future costs for Social Security benefits will be paid through a better economy that produces higher wages which generate higher SS collections and the interest paid on these loans and bonds.

Submitted by ACM in Government & Elections Jan. 15, 2015, 1:35 p.m.

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#2387

10 votes

WE NEED A COALITION GOVERNMENT AND DISBAND THE 2 PARTY DUOPOLY STRANGLEHOLD! Do away with the President Election Committee which is controlled by Dem & Rep appointed chairmen. Do away with presidential primaries. Hold a general election that allows many parties and contestants. And the FCC is to make airtime for all Presidential Campaign commercials, to be considered Public Service Announcements - for the public good, and therefore are free of charge, which the FCC has the authority to do !!!

Submitted by Will W. from IL in Government & Elections Jan. 15, 2015, 8:17 p.m.

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#2387

10 votes

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