Opinions from radio personalities
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Ben Shapiro,
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Assault weapons should be banned
They [civilians] need them [assault weapons] for the prospective possibility of resistance to tyranny.
Walter E. Williams,
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Tariffs
Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to cast their ballots, and the victims don't know whom to blame for their calamity.
Lawrence Kudlow,
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Tariffs
The biggest flaw in the Trump economic plan is the tilt toward protectionism. I have parted company with him on this. The question here is whether his campaign bark will turn out to be bigger than his government-policy bite.
Alan Keyes,
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Assault weapons should be banned
The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.
Ronald Reagan, Former US president
This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals.
Ronald Reagan, Former US president
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Universal Health Care
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.
Ben Shapiro,
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Universal Health Care
Morally, you have no right to demand medical care of me. I may recognize your necessity and offer charity; my friends and I may choose to band together and fund your medical care. But your necessity does not change the basic math: Medical care is a service and a good provided by a third party...
[M]edical care is a commodity, and treating it otherwise is foolhardy. To make a commodity cheaper a...
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Larry Elder,
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Legalise recreational drugs
The war against drugs is wrong both tactically and morally. It assumes people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
Bill Thompson,
disagrees
Electronic voting
I do not think it is possible to design an e-voting system that can be guaranteed secure against a concerted and well-funded attack.
I am concerned that this will happen, or worse, that it will be suspected and that the results of an election will be cast into doubt.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, American radio host, environmental activist, author and attorney specializing in environmental law
disagrees
Vaccines
None of the vaccines have more than a few months of double-blind placebo testing, which will not allow you to spot illnesses like autism that aren’t diagnosed before five years. Second of all, in most vaccines, for example the Gardasil vaccine, they don’t use true placebos.
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