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“Everyone who has the right to vote should be automatically registered, whether they use it or not. Registration should not be a barrier to Constitutional rights.”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Should People be Automatically Registered to Vote at the DMV?

“Our governmental budgeting is so badly prioritized, we need to be taking care of more important things than the military industrial complex. Especially when it could be going toward healthcare and taking measures toward helping citizens during the pandemic.”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Authorizing $740 Billion in Defense Spending for FY2021

“State and local authorities should be notified, and background checks need to be run more often with all types of firearms. There are plent of reasons why these entities may need to have this information.”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Should State Law Enforcement Agencies be Notified When Someone Fails a Gun Background Check?

“Not only should this not be a required question, it should not be a question on the census at all.”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Should There Be a Penalty For Not Answering the Citizenship Question in the 2020 Census?

“The wall is pointless and nothing more than a message that bigots don't want people who aren't the same color as themselves to come, legally or otherwise. This is not who we should be as a nation. The money would be much better used towards improvements to infrastructure and education.”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Should $23 Billion Go to Building the Border Wall and Other Immigration Enforcement Infrastructure?

“There should be a national holiday to allow citizens to vote, in addition to early voting and absentee ballots. The name can be negotiable, but the holiday is a necessary step to help avoid the rampant voter suppression we are seeing today.”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Should Election Day Be a Public Holiday Known As ‘Democracy Day’?

“Single-payer insurance is something that we should be working towards. The healthcare and pharma industries need reform and regulation on the financial end, but a single-payer system would be a great step towards reducing the impact on citizens and allowing people to be healthy without going bankrup…”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Medicare for All: Should the U.S. Adopt a Single-Payer Healthcare System?

“The Electoral College has long outlived its purpose, as the population of the country is beyond anything the founders would jave imagined. All it does now is prove that the individual vote does not matter and discourage citizens from voting. The Electoral College has become the antithesis of the dem…”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Should the Electoral College be Abolished & the Constitution Amended to Elect the President by Popular Vote?

“Not only should there not be a vote for the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday, his nomination should be revoked. The entire process has been a sham and that man has no business practicing law, let alone being a judge. Mitch McConnell also needs to be removed from his position, as he has re…”

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In Response to: Should the Senate Vote on Kavanaugh's Supreme Court Confirmation Saturday?

“The only valid place for Confederate statues or monuments is in museums, where they can be shown in their historical context as traitors of the union and proponents of slavery. They are not to be celebrated, as even the heroes of the Confeseracy expressed in their time.”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Should Confederate Statues be Removed From Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol?

“ICE had become the modern Gestapo of the Nazi Statws of America. Their purpose adds cruelty to and already prejudiced society and serves no real purpose but to enforce whiteness on the nation. ICE needs to go, there are other departments and agencies which already do what is needed.”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Should ICE be Abolished & its Duties Transferred to Other Agencies?

“Any health coverage should include mental care as well. There is no reason for it to be separate and it is incredibly important to many people. This would also help with removing some of the stigma on people with disabilities or disorders and encourage them to seek the help they need instead or hidi…”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Should CHIP Plans Provide Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment?

“This is part of the common sense gun laws we need and any loss or misuse of firearms should be included. If a person loses possession of a gun, by theft or any other means, this should affect their ability to purchase more.”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Should Gun Sellers Have to Wait for a Completed Background Check to Transfer a Firearm?

“Nobody should be required to show pictures of people. This is another ridiculous idea to perpetuate the fascist nature of the current administration.”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Should Every Post Office Display the Official Portraits of the President & Vice President?

“Adding guns into this kind of setting is a terrible idea. Guns should not be for defense, there are other, better ways.”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Should Federal Prison Officers be Allowed to Carry Concealed Firearms on the Premises?

“I was just thinking this sounded like a good idea and here we are. It would also be good to standardize fares so that time of day or day of the week don't have such sever impact on prices. It's supply and demand, not demand and price gouging.”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Should Airlines be Prohibited From Imposing "Ridiculous" Fees?

“Either finish Yucca Mountain or create a new permanent storage site now. We are one tiny accident away from catastrophe in our current situation, which should have been resolved over 30 years ago.”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Reforming Nuclear Waste Management & Moving the Yucca Mountain Repository Forward

“It is the government's job to present valid information to the public, not to hide what it doesn't agree with. Science is non-partisan, hiding it and disagreeing with it does not change it or make it go away.”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Should the EPA Restore & Maintain Info About Climate Change On its Website?

“Protect musicians and make sure they get what they need and deserve!”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Modernizing Music Copyright Law to Ensure Digital Services Pay Royalties

“The punishment has never matched the "crime" with respect to marijuana, it is time to correct this. Especially considering that this has always had a disproportionately higher effect on minorities. There should also be some kind of reparations to those who are imprisoned due to anything that is decr…”

- JOHN S

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In Response to: Should Marijuana be Federally Decriminalized?