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“Registering and taxing these guns will not have any impact on their use in mass shootings. The people who will register and pay the tax are not the problem. The only outcome will be a flood of black market guns and mags with no possibility of tracing their whereabouts. Keep in mind that drug cartel…”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Do You Support President-Elect Biden’s Plan to Restrict ‘Assault Weapons’?

“I'm not really sure the federal government should even be in education. I think that is a state responsibility.”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Should the Federal Gov’t Give Local Education Agencies Funding to Make Changes to Districts Aimed at Increasing Racial & Socioeconomic Diversity?

“I am opposed to any one else being on the dole from the government!”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Letting New Mothers Claim the Child Tax Credit for the Tax Year in Which They Were Pregnant

“Let's just do away with Financial Regulators!”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Should Financial Regulators Review Current Rules More Frequently to Ensure They’re Not Outdated?

“How about we actually complete the background check AND share it!”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Strengthening Background Checks & Requiring Them For All Commercial Gun Sales

“We already overpay our elected officials. Let them fund their own paintings for posterity.”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Preventing Tax Dollars From Being Spent on Paintings of Federal Officials and Employees

“We must stop supporting any form of energy that harms the environment. There are too many clean fuel options that we are not taking advantage of!”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Do Power Plants That Burn Coal Waste Need Leeway on Emissions Standards?

“Let's look at this simplistically. It is not the governments responsibility to supply healthcare. Government governs the people- who provide the government. Insurance companies are traded on the NYSE-so they are "for profit" businesses. Business supports the people, who, in turn, make the busine…”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: GOP Fails to Get Votes for Health Care Plan

“This is absolutely a no-brainer! Now, today, is the time to move toward more renewable, cleaner energy! Sink millions in improving batteries and better storage, not finding more oil. Oil and gas are not renewable and will eventually be depleted and the environment ruined. Now is the time! This …”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Trump Administration Issues Official Keystone Pipeline Permits

“No money for Zika. Pregnant women can put on some spray or stay in the house! It's ridiculous to spend countless millions for such a small portion of the population!”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Funding the Federal Government Through December 9 (With Money for Zika)

“Guns are only the weapon. Not the cause.”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Should it be Easier to Sue Gun Manufacturers and Distributors When People Misuse Guns?

“Again? It's already illegal, so why are we talking about it???”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Should it be Illegal for the IRS to Target Taxpayers for Exercising Their First Amendment Rights?

“Ban all bonuses for government officials. Pay them market rate and expect them to do their jobs!”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Banning IRS Bonuses — Until the Agency Follows a Customer Service Strategy

“What??? Why are we even talking about this???”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Does the IRS Need to be Banned From Rehiring Employees it Fired for Misconduct?

“Congress being so dysfunctional is WHY the president has to do it. They need to stop in-fighting like a bunch of teenaged girls and get to work. I'm sick of All of them...president included.”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Should Congress — Not the President— Set Refugee Admission Caps?

“Get out of the private lives of the citizens. No vaccination, fine, all the kids who are vaccinated will be fine. You want to play Russian roulette with your kid, be my guest.”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Should Congress Officially Support Vaccinations?

“Please see previous response on Opiod addiction. We need education and jobs...not more prison space. Hey, teach them a trade and some self-respect and THEN turn them out*”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Reducing the Minimum Time That Non-Violent Drug Offenders Have to Serve in Federal Prisons

“Yes. Do the rapid test, while the subject is in custody. But, there needs to be a second test that is administered by an independent lab. It keeps the cops honest.”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Do Police Officers Need to Have Rapid DNA Tests at Their Disposal?

“Sick people stay home and keep your feverish kids home too!!! When CEOs stop making stop making outrageous salaries I'll start worrying about the business aspect of it. The workers missing a day here and there are Not what is causing the financial strain.”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Paid Sick Leave: Should Federal, State, And Private Sector Employers Have To Offer It?

“I have a 15y/o son. The last thing I want is for him to go to war. I think the chuckleheads in the government should be required to send their children and grandchildren FIRST. Let's see how likely they are to send our soldiers in to be sitting ducks, then! If I had more faith in the government …”

- MELISSA G

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In Response to: Has the Selective Service System Outlived Its Usefulness?