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Question: No private corporation should recieve tax dollars
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ElectionsGuy
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« on: October 17, 2015, 01:38:10 PM »
1. Strongly Agree. 71/29, 54/16/15/15
2. Agree. 52/48, 43/10/26/21
3. Disagree. 21/79, 4/17/38/42
4. Strongly Agree. 70/30, 55/14/14/16
5. Strongly Agree. 87/13, 58/28/5/8
6. Strongly Agree. 87/13, 60/27/7/7
7. Agree. 71/29, 37/33/20/10
8. Disagree. 40/60, 12/29/27/33
9. Strongly Agree. 71/29. 51/20/20/9
10. Agree. 55/45. 29/27/16/29
11. Disagree. 20/80. 11/8/33/48

Keep voting on proposition 12
Keep voting on proposition 13

Strongly Agree
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« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2015, 01:39:15 PM »
Strongly Agree. We need to stop babying people with our hard-earned money period.
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« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2015, 01:57:14 PM »
lol no. You really think the government should never contract out anything?
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« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2015, 01:59:30 PM »
Quote from: realisticidealist on October 17, 2015, 01:57:14 PM
lol no. You really think the government should never contract out anything?

So a contract is required to involve tax dollars?
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« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2015, 02:04:23 PM »
Quote from: ElectionsGuy on October 17, 2015, 01:59:30 PM
Quote from: realisticidealist on October 17, 2015, 01:57:14 PM
lol no. You really think the government should never contract out anything?

So a contract is required to involve tax dollars?
Um, yeah.
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« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2015, 02:04:50 PM »
« Edited: October 17, 2015, 02:07:10 PM by DavidB. »
"recieve"?

Anyway, I'm in doubt about this. I'm obviously against corporate welfare and subsidies, but contracting out often seems an efficient and successful way to get things done in some instances, even though this shouldn't become an ideology in its own right (as seems to be the case in some places, which entirely defeats the purpose), and this definitely involves tax money.

I'll just say that this question is sh**tty and I'll vote "strongly agree", I suppose, because they're probably aiming at subsidies rather than public-private contracts.
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« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2015, 02:07:37 PM »
Medical research, alternative energy, infrastructure banks... there's plenty of worthy causes.
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« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2015, 02:15:04 PM »
Disagree, the government should be able to subsidize corporations with positive externalities (such as green energy companies) whose price is too high to reflect the true cost of the goods of the corporation. Furthermore, some goods such as healthcare, food, and other basic necessities should be subsidized, but not price-controlled.
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« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2015, 02:52:57 PM »
This is a terrible question for a political test! Questions ideally should unambiguously sort the questionee in a left or right direction. This question, however, could just as easily be answered with a "yes" from people who consider themselves far-left or socialist, as it could an ultra-economic liberal right-winger, so cannot be useful at all.

Also, it would be very hard to, say, stop contracting from the private sector without in the process transforming modern capitalism into something vastly different. But perhaps this question isn't talking about that, but talking about, say, wholesale subsidies. A view I'm more partial tokards - subsidies in the agriculture market in particular are highly distorting; but I don't think I'm left-wing enough to say all the private sector's responsiblities should be taken up by the government, which is the implication of the question, ultimately.
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« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2015, 03:32:15 PM »
Well, mildly disagree.
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« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2015, 03:42:36 PM »
Quote from: ElectionsGuy on October 17, 2015, 01:38:10 PM
1. Strongly Agree. 71/29, 54/16/15/15
2. Agree. 52/48, 43/10/26/21
3. Disagree. 21/79, 4/17/38/42
4. Strongly Agree. 70/30, 55/14/14/16
5. Strongly Agree. 87/13, 58/28/5/8
6. Strongly Agree. 87/13, 60/27/7/7
7. Agree. 71/29, 37/33/20/10
8. Disagree. 40/60, 12/29/27/33
9. Strongly Agree. 71/29. 51/20/20/9
10. Agree. 55/45. 29/27/16/29
11. Disagree. 20/80. 11/8/33/48

Keep voting on proposition 12
Keep voting on proposition 13

Strongly Agree

A Badly worded question but I vote agree
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« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2015, 03:49:14 PM »
I think this might be the worst worded one yet.
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« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2015, 06:15:50 PM »
Quote from: dead0man on October 17, 2015, 03:49:14 PM
I think this might be the worst worded one yet.

#15 should be fun...
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« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2015, 07:05:34 PM »
Disagree, science, medicine, research as well as small business, farms and struggling American business, small business and help business that serve society.
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« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2015, 07:55:48 PM »
Strongly disagree. About the only way this could work would be communism.
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« Reply #15 on: October 19, 2015, 02:16:11 PM »
Eh, I agree with what I think this question is trying to say, but the wording is horrible. Went with agree.
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