The Political Compass: page 2

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

People are ultimately divided more by class than by nationality.

Controlling inflation is more important than controlling unemployment.

Because corporations cannot be trusted to voluntarily protect the environment, they require regulation.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need is a fundamentally good idea.

It's a sad reflection on our society that something as basic as drinking water is now a bottled, branded consumer product.

Land shouldn't be a commodity to be bought and sold.

It is regrettable that many personal fortunes are made by people who simply manipulate money and contribute nothing to their society.

Protectionism is sometimes necessary in trade.

The only social responsibility of a company should be to deliver a profit to its shareholders.

The rich are too highly taxed.

Those with the ability to pay should have the right to higher standards of medical care .

Governments should penalise businesses that mislead the public.

A genuine free market requires restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies.

The freer the market, the freer the people.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

my answers:

People are ultimately divided more by class than by nationality.

Strongly Agree. The rich have no nations.

Controlling inflation is more important than controlling unemployment.

Strongly Disagree. Inflation is inevitable anyway.

Because corporations cannot be trusted to voluntarily protect the environment, they require regulation.

Strongly Agree. Don't see how anyone could argue with this.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need is a fundamentally good idea.

Agree. Don't see anything wrong with it.

It's a sad reflection on our society that something as basic as drinking water is now a bottled, branded consumer product.

Agree. This should make people wake up and think.

Land shouldn't be a commodity to be bought and sold.

Agree. How about we sell air?

It is regrettable that many personal fortunes are made by people who simply manipulate money and contribute nothing to their society.

Strongly Agree. Ken Lay is all the proof we need.

Protectionism is sometimes necessary in trade.

Agree. Without it India and China will steal all our jobs.

The only social responsibility of a company should be to deliver a profit to its shareholders.

Strongly Disagree. Think of all the illegal and immoral things companies can do to make profits.

The rich are too highly taxed.

Strongly Disagree. Aren't taxed enough.

Those with the ability to pay should have the right to higher standards of medical care.

Strongly disagree. Why do Paris Hilton and Britney Spears deserve more than people who actually work?

Governments should penalise businesses that mislead the public.

Strongly Agree. Another no brainer.

A genuine free market requires restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies.

Strongly Agree, but I think free markets are evil inherently.

The freer the market, the freer the people.

Strongly Disagree. Who thinks Pinochet's Chile was more free than New Deal America?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Does the guy who made that test know how many words his misspelled?

British spelling.