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Barack Obama, Former President of United States of America
Reinstate the assault weapons plan. Make it harder for terrorists to use these weapons to kill us.
Barack Obama, Former President of United States of America
agrees
Fracking
After years of talking about it, we are finally poised to control our own energy future. We produce more natural gas than ever before – and nearly everyone’s energy bill is lower because of it. … The natural gas boom has led to cleaner power and greater energy independence. We need to encourage that.
Chuck Schumer, U.s. senator from the state of new york
The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
Pete du Pont, American lawyer and politician
disagrees
Euthanasia
From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.
Barack Obama, Former President of United States of America
agrees
Universal Health Care
I think it [health care] should be a right for every American. In a country as wealthy as ours, for us to have people who are going bankrupt because they can't pay their medical bills -- for my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they're saying that this may be a pre-existing condition ...
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William G. Young, U.S. District Judge
The AR-15 and its analogs, along with large capacity magazines, are simply not weapons within the original meaning of the individual constitutional right to ‘bear arms'.
Ben Shapiro,
disagrees
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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Ben Shapiro,
disagrees
Assault weapons should be banned
They [civilians] need them [assault weapons] for the prospective possibility of resistance to tyranny.
Barack Obama, Former President of United States of America
agrees
Carbon Tax
I have long believed that the most elegant way to drive innovation and to reduce carbon emissions is to put a price on it
Barack Obama, Former President of United States of America
The next wave of economic dislocations won’t come from overseas. It will come from the relentless pace of automation that makes a lot of good middle-class jobs obsolete.
Julius Genachowski, Business executive, politician
agrees
Net neutrality
Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons.
Elliott Abrams, American lawyer, diplomat
agrees
Legalise recreational drugs
The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, where tiny police and military forces are outclassed by the sophisticated equipment in the hands of traffickers passing through the region on the way to their market in this country.
Barack Obama, Former President of United States of America
agrees
Net neutrality
Internet providers have a legal obligation not to block or limit your access to a website. Cable companies can't decide which online stores you should shop at or which streaming services you can use. And they can't let any company pay for priority over its competitors.
Barack Obama, Former President of United States of America
For too many of us, it’s become safer to retreat into our own bubbles, whether in our neighborhoods or college campuses or places of worship or our social media feeds, surrounded by people who look like us and share the same political outlook and never challenge our assumptions. The rise of naked partisanship, increasing economic and regional stratification, the splintering of our media into a cha... See More
Greg Mankiw, Harvard professor in economics
agrees
Carbon Tax
People don't want to think about climate change every time they do every decision. They can't. What a carbon tax does is it nudges them in the direction of doing the right thing. But you can cut other taxes in response.
Charles Munger, American investor, businessman and philanthropist
disagrees
Cryptocurrencies
I never considered for one second having anything to do with it. I detested it the moment it was raised. It’s just disgusting. Bitcoin is noxious poison.
Barack Obama, Former President of United States of America
All Americans who are qualified to serve should be able to serve
Richard Posner,
agrees
Carbon Tax
Stiff taxes will put pressure on the energy industry to achieve technological breakthroughs (such as sequestration of carbon dioxide) that will greatly reduce the use of fossil fuels.
Barack Obama, Former President of United States of America
agrees
Climate change is real
Climate change is the greatest long-term threat facing the world, as well as a danger already manifesting itself as droughts, storms, heat waves and flooding.
Ralph Nader, Consumer advocate, author and former presidential candidate
agrees
Basic Income
Basic income would get rid of chronic capitalism
Xavier Oberson,
agrees
Robot Tax
Our analysis suggests that a tax on the use of robots would make sense, as a potential solution for addressing the development of robots on the labour market. In essence, we believe that granting a legal personality to robots could lead to the emergence of an electronic ability to pay, which should be recognised for tax purposes. After all, we have seen in the past that states, when required, may ...
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Barack Obama, Former President of United States of America
disagrees
Brexit
The UK will lose its influence in the world if it leaves the European Union
Michelle Obama, Lawyer, writer, wife of barack obama and former first lady of the united states
agrees
Clinton over Trump
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