Issues
At the national level, the PIRGs are running campaigns around the following issues:
- Stopping the flow of special interest money in our elections;
- Closing corporate tax loopholes and making corporations pay the taxes they owe;
- Making our health care system work;
- Consumer protection;
- Stopping reckless banking and financial practices;
- Ending taxpayer subsidies for junk food ingredients;
- Promoting public transportation;
- Making higher education affordable;
- Promoting transparency and accountability in government; and
- Safeguarding public health.
Read more about this topic: Public Interest Research Group
Famous quotes containing the word issues:
“To make life more bearable and pleasant for everybody, choose the issues that are significant enough to fight over, and ignore or use distraction for those you can let slide that day. Picking your battles will eliminate a number of conflicts, and yet will still leave you feeling in control.”
—Lawrence Balter (20th century)
“The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“Cynicism formulates issues clearly, but only to dismiss them.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)