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Noam Chomsky on VoteMatch |
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topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (0 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
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Strongly Favors
topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (-5 points on Economic scale) | Our grandmothers were hopelessly oppressed & didn't know it: Strongly Favors topic 2 They stoke racial hatred to cut public services: Favors topic 2 |
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topic 3: Comfortable with same-sex marriage (0 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
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No opinion on
topic 4: Keep God in the public sphere (0 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
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Strongly Favors
topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (-5 points on Economic scale) | National system covers all & removes wasteful inefficiencies: Strongly Favors topic 5 Divert military spending to preventable diseases abroad: Favors topic 5 Payments in health care system should be progressive: Strongly Favors topic 5 |
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No opinion on
topic 6: Privatize Social Security (0 points on Economic scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
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No opinion on
topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (0 points on Economic scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
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Strongly Opposes
topic 8: Fight EPA regulatory over-reach (+5 points on Social scale) | Unfair for emerging economies to bear environmental burden: Strongly Opposes topic 8 |
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Strongly Opposes
topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (+5 points on Social scale) | US uses imprisonment for population control: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Capital punishment is a crime: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Harsher penalties only serve to control the poor more: Opposes topic 9 Societal inequality causes crime: Opposes topic 9 |
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No opinion on
topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (0 points on Economic scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
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Strongly Favors
topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (-5 points on Economic scale) | Payments in tax system should be progressive: Strongly Favors topic 11 |
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topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (+5 points on Social scale) | Aside from Native Americans, we're all immigrants: Strongly Favors topic 12 |
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Strongly Opposes
topic 13: Support & expand free trade (-5 points on Economic scale) | WTO is just another tool for US intervention abroad: Opposes topic 13 Free Trade Agreements move jobs to non-union areas: Strongly Opposes topic 13 Trilateral world view means Latin America belongs to the US: Opposes topic 13 Free trade is all about corporate subsidies: Strongly Opposes topic 13 |
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topic 14: Support American Exceptionalism (0 points on Economic scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
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Strongly Opposes
topic 15: Expand the military (+5 points on Social scale) | Our military is not for defense; rein it in: Strongly Opposes topic 15 US companies account for 60% of all of world's arms sales: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Federal scam: transfer funds to high-tech defense industries: Strongly Opposes topic 15 |
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No opinion on
topic 16: Make voter registration easier (0 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
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Favors
topic 17: Avoid foreign entanglements (+2 points on Social scale) | Establish a nuclear weapons free zone in Middle East: Favors topic 17 Our Latin America policy benefits investors, not people: Opposes topic 17 Countries develop by avoiding colonization & ignoring market: Opposes topic 17 Cold War fear of USSR was played to control US population: Opposes topic 17 No-nuke zone in Middle East would end military aid to Israel: Opposes topic 17 Anyone threatened by Iraq can approach UN Security Council: Strongly Favors topic 17 UN authorizing US force in Iraq allows Iran to use force: Strongly Favors topic 17 US opposes Iraqi democracy because they get closer to Iran: Strongly Favors topic 17 US chartered UN & must follow UN decisions on Iraq: Strongly Favors topic 17 |
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Strongly Favors
topic 18: Prioritize green energy (-5 points on Economic scale) | Limited time on climate change; US going in wrong direction: Strongly Favors topic 18 Market can't solve climate change, structural changes needed: Strongly Favors topic 18 Task ahead enormous & there is not much time: Strongly Favors topic 18 Sign the Kyoto Protocol and rely on UN diplomacy: Strongly Favors topic 18 Oil is cheap because Pentagon�s expenditures keep it cheap: Favors topic 18 |
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Strongly Opposes
topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (+5 points on Social scale) | Drug war has focused on blacks and Hispanics: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Poisoning crops & biodiversity justified as "war on drugs": Strongly Opposes topic 19 Drug use is falling anyway; drug war is fraudulent: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Drug War is an excuse for US military intervention abroad: Strongly Opposes topic 19 |
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No opinion on
topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (0 points on Economic scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Noam Chomsky is a Libertarian-Leaning Progressive
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