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Robert Mundell, Canadian economist
agrees
Tariffs
The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system.
Rosa DeLauro, American politician
agrees
Soda taxes
There is a clear relationship between sugar-sweetened beverages and a host of health conditions, including diabetes, heart disease, obesity and tooth decay. We are at a crucial tipping point. The SWEET Act would help correct the path we are currently on.
Alf Dubs,
agrees
Euthanasia
I support this bill and I do so because I do not wish to deny to other people something which I might want for myself one day in the future.
Juan Manuel Santos,
disagrees
Tariffs
Protectionism is something that will hurt everybody, but especially the United States.
Cindy Cohn, American civil liberties attorney
agrees
Net neutrality
Your ability to access a website depends on your desire to access the website and not the deals that the intermediaries have made with each other.
Juan Manuel Santos,
agrees
Legalise recreational drugs
The business of illicit drugs is behind violence, corruption and crime in almost the entire planet, and we have to recognize that the so-called War on Drugs - which has been going on for half a century - has not been won or won.
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.
Christopher Pissarides, Nobel Prize winner in Economics
agrees
Basic Income
I am very much in favour, as long as we know how to apply it without taking away incentive to work at the lower end of the market
Nick Bostrom,
Before the prospect of an intelligence explosion, we humans are like small children playing with a bomb [...] We have little idea when the detonation will occur, though if we hold the device to our ear we can hear a faint ticking sound
Reza Moghadam, Economist and Vice-chairman for sovereigns and official institutions at Morgan Stanley
Macron is right - the Eurozone needs a finance minister. [...] it focuses on the essential: a collective action mechanism for managing and stabilising economies in crisis. It also does so without the need for EU Treaty changes
Richard N. Cooper, American economist, policy adviser, and academic
agrees
Carbon Tax
Levying a charge on CO2 raises the price of CO2-emitting activities,including fossil fuel use, and thus is the most direct method of influencing consumer and industrial behavior on a world-wide scale.
William Gale,
agrees
Carbon Tax
The basic rationale for a carbon tax is that it makes good economic sense: unlike most taxes, carbon taxation can correct a market failure and make the economy more efficient.
Alan Blinder, Economist
agrees
Carbon Tax
The 'bang for the buck' from a phased-in CO2 levy would be infinite at first—lots of jobs at zero cost to the federal budget.
Robert Shapiro, Chairman of economic advisory firm Sonecon, IMF advisor, former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce. Bl
agrees
Carbon Tax
The risks of climate change continue to grow. Global, harmonized net carbon taxes could contain those risk s in an economically-efficient and politically-feasible way.
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.
Thomas Piketty,
disagrees
Basic Income
I have difficulty in understanding those who insist on wishing to pay a basic income of 500 Euros per month to those earning a salary of 2000 Euros, and then deduct the same sum by raising their taxes deducted at source.
Martin Ravallion, Economist
agrees
Basic Income
A basic-income guarantee would dominate net workfare earnings in terms of the impact on poverty for a given budgetary outlay.
Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development in Canada
agrees
Basic Income
I think it’s the principles behind the idea [of a guaranteed income] that matter. These principles are greater simplicity for the government, greater transparency on the part of families and greater equity for everyone
stellacreasy, British Labour Co-operative politician, Member of Parliament
disagrees
Women-only train carriages
Can we make all carriages safe for all passengers rather than restricting where we can go? [It] doesn't keep women safe to restrict their movements - it normalises attacks. We need to be clear they [the attackers] are problem, not women's seating plans.
Markus Brunnermeier,
Total health expenses and risk will remain high for individuals. It might also shift the norm whether to work. Work = being part of society
Allister Heath,
agrees
Brexit
Genuine believers in enlightenment values must have the courage of their convictions …. they must learn to trust the people again: we are a sensible, grown-up nation, and we don’t need a bunch of European technocrats to force us to be free.
Yvette Cooper,
disagrees
Brexit
There’s a good reason why the TUC, EEF and IMF are talking about the real risk to our jobs and our economy [if we vote to leave the EU]. It is working class people across Britain who would be hardest hit if we end up losing those jobs.
Syed Kamall,
agrees
Brexit
After much thought, my personal decision is to vote to leave the EU; not because I think David Cameron did a bad job, but because I believe that on balance we could forge a better future outside.
Gisela Stuart MP, Member of Parliament for Birmingham Edgbaston, chair of Vote Leave
agrees
Brexit
The NHS is struggling to cope with rising demand. If we Vote Leave we will be able to stop our money being spent on EU bureaucrats and instead invest in the NHS so that patients can get the best possible care.
Andrew Simms, Director, New Weather Economics
disagrees
Brexit
The sheer complexity of continuing European and global economic interdependence would replace one Europe-wide set of agreements with a thicket of even more. [...] All prospects would become trickier and harder still to navigate
Andrew Sentance, Former MPC member and Senior Economic Adviser, PwC
disagrees
Brexit
[Brexit] would make me more negative about the medium-term for two reasons. (1) Disruption and uncertainty created by Brexit; (2) Lack of a clear alternative to underpin UK's trade and investment relationships
Patrick Minford, Professor of Applied Economics, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University
agrees
Brexit
In the medium and long term Breset will herald a major growth-boosting period as the UK breaks free of the over-mighty EU with its protectionist mindset and establishes free trade and intelligent regulation aimed at UK economic interests
Ricardo Reis, Professor of Economics at London School of Economics
disagrees
Brexit
While leaving could allow for some policy improvements, it would also open the way for a whole list of dreadful policies regarding trade, immigration, and industrial policy that membership in the EU now precludes
George Soros, Business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
disagrees
Brexit
The UK will struggle if it cuts itself off from the rest of Europe
Jill Macleod Clark, Deputy dean of the faculty of medicine, health & biological sciences and head of the school of nursing & midwifery, university of southampton
disagrees
Brexit
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