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Strongly Favors topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (+5 points on Social scale)	Exposing stereotypes helps dispel them: Favors topic 1 Male legislators shouldn't decide female reproductive rights: Strongly Favors topic 1 Support a woman's right to choose, including contraception: Strongly Favors topic 1 Abortion should be regulated by doctors, not legislators: Favors topic 1
Strongly Favors topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (-5 points on Economic scale)	Fix racial disparity with MLK's idea of a guaranteed income: Favors topic 2 Against federal preclearance of state abortion laws: Opposes topic 2 Empower women entrepreneurs with my $1000 per month plan: Strongly Favors topic 2 Treatment of indigenous people has been immoral & criminal: Strongly Favors topic 2 Fight for equal pay for women, and women of color: Strongly Favors topic 2 Pay equity for women and minorities: Strongly Favors topic 2
Strongly Favors topic 3: Comfortable with same-sex marriage (+5 points on Social scale)	Who you love and how you love are up to you: Strongly Favors topic 3 Increase funding for LGBTQ issues and education: Strongly Favors topic 3 Supports LGBTQ rights: Strongly Favors topic 3
Favors topic 4: Keep God in the public sphere (-3 points on Social scale)	Create culture of lifting up the least among us: Favors topic 4
Strongly Favors topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (-5 points on Economic scale)	Invest in the Mental Health Emergency Response Unit: Favors topic 5 Would expand Medicare but not offer a public option: Strongly Favors topic 5 Invest in "telehealth" allowing internet access to doctors: Favors topic 5 Provide comprehensive mental health coverage: Strongly Favors topic 5 Supports forced licensing of drug patents to control costs: Strongly Favors topic 5 Medicare-for-All but with private insurance: Strongly Favors topic 5 Support negotiating drug prices for Medicare outpatients: Favors topic 5 Public option would cost less than present system: Strongly Favors topic 5 Advocates for a single-payer health care system: Strongly Favors topic 5 Single-payer system solves biggest problem of over-billing: Strongly Favors topic 5 Medicare-for-All establishes a basic right: Strongly Favors topic 5 ObamaCare is only a good first step: Strongly Favors topic 5
Favors topic 6: Privatize Social Security (+2 points on Economic scale)	Universal Basic Income recipients might lose other benefits: Favors topic 6 Freedom Dividend of $1000/month for every adult American: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Disability creates a permanent shadow class of beneficiaries: Favors topic 6 Disability creates a permanent shadow class of beneficiaries: Favors topic 6 Optional automatic tax-free retirement investment vehicle: Favors topic 6 Fund Freedom Dividend payments with 10% VAT: Opposes topic 6
Strongly Opposes topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (-5 points on Economic scale)	Extend Universal Pre-K to three-year-olds: Strongly Opposes topic 7 I am pro-good-school; pay teachers more; use tests less: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Offered high pay for teachers in earlier business: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Pay teachers enough to attract and retain the best: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Improving teacher salaries improves student success: Opposes topic 7
Opposes topic 8: Fight EPA regulatory over-reach (+2 points on Social scale)	Appoint small business czar to help in recovery efforts: Favors topic 8 Reformulate GDP to account for clean air & clean water: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Clean water is a fundamental human right: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Constitutional amendment to safeguard environment: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Help farmers modernize in sustainable way: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Thorium-based nuclear plants are safe and reliable: Strongly Favors topic 8 Create department to regulate social media: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Nuclear isn't perfect, but it's a solid solution for now: Strongly Favors topic 8
Strongly Opposes topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (+5 points on Social scale)	Appoint Police Commissioner with resume beyond NYPD: Opposes topic 9 Overhaul oversight of the NYPD: Opposes topic 9 Repeal 1994 crime bill, decriminalize truancy: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Makes more sense to pay people to keep out of jail: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Reform or reduce cash bail: Opposes topic 9 Eliminate private prisons: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Death penalty has led to tragic errors: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Replace mass incarceration with social programs: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Body cameras for every police officer: Opposes topic 9 Police unfairly target minorities: Opposes topic 9
Opposes topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (-3 points on Economic scale)	Break stranglehold of NRA on Congress: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Would push for "personalized" guns, subsidize upgrading: Opposes topic 10 Help gun owners "personalize" guns free of charge: Opposes topic 10 Voluntary buyback, plus high-capacity magazine ban: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Future without handguns is not reality: Favors topic 10 In the future, people will still own handguns: Favors topic 10 Treat guns the way we treat motor vehicles: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Three-tier gun licensing for common-sense safety: Opposes topic 10 Make gun manufacturers liable for mass shootings: Strongly Opposes topic 10
Strongly Favors topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (-5 points on Economic scale)	Push NYS for a Vacancy Tax on empty storefronts: Favors topic 11 End Social Security cap, favorable capital gains treatment: Favors topic 11 Wealth tax didn't work where it was tried: Opposes topic 11 0.1% tax on the sale of stocks, bonds and derivatives: Strongly Favors topic 11 Value-added tax would generate $800B taxes & $700B GDP: Favors topic 11 Fund programs from tech companies now paying no tax: Strongly Favors topic 11 Value Added Tax would generate $800 billion: Favors topic 11 Same tax rate on capital gains as on earned income: Strongly Favors topic 11 Revenue Day: make paying taxes a celebration: Favors topic 11 Value-Added Tax as part of new capitalist philosophy: Favors topic 11
Strongly Favors topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (+5 points on Social scale)	All agencies must make language access a top priority: Strongly Favors topic 12 America has been magnet for human capital for generations: Strongly Favors topic 12 Immigrants are being scapegoated; blame the machines: Favors topic 12 12M illegal immigrants is a major problem: Opposes topic 12 Immigrants make US stronger and more dynamic: Strongly Favors topic 12 Need more case workers & judges at southern border: Strongly Favors topic 12 Come out of shadows with long-term permanent residency: Strongly Favors topic 12 Deporting 11 million is impossible and inhumane: Favors topic 12 Boost funding for U.S. ports of entry: Opposes topic 12 Supports the DREAM Act: Favors topic 12
Strongly Favors topic 13: Support & expand free trade (+5 points on Economic scale)	Would not stand in way of fossil fuel exports from US: Favors topic 13 Create a path forward on China that works for both sides: Favors topic 13 Partner to help African nations & expand markets: Strongly Favors topic 13 We need to crack down, but tariffs & trade wars are wrong: Favors topic 13
Opposes topic 14: Support American Exceptionalism (-3 points on Economic scale)	International consensus and coalitions on data: Opposes topic 14 US should lead the way on climate change: Opposes topic 14 Provide model for democratic capitalism, not authoritarians: Favors topic 14 Let our values lead us: no aid to Saudi Arabia against Yemen: Opposes topic 14 Two-state solution is only end to Israel/Palestine conflict: Opposes topic 14 Some Israeli actions are problematic on human rights: Opposes topic 14 Strengthen alliances such as NATO; reinvest in diplomacy: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Puerto Rican statehood is overdue step toward equality: Opposes topic 14
Opposes topic 15: Expand the military (+2 points on Social scale)	Military dumps oil at end of year, to avoid losing budget: Opposes topic 15 I signed a pledge to end the Forever Wars: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Military spending on modern threats, not decades-old ones: Favors topic 15 Invest in equipment for technical superiority: Favors topic 15 Rechannel $60B per year from defense to infrastructure: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Too much military spending focuses in decades-old threats: Strongly Opposes topic 15
Strongly Favors topic 16: Make voter registration easier (+5 points on Social scale)	Allow people to cast ballots through mobile apps: Strongly Favors topic 16 Automatic voter registration & lower voting age to 16: Strongly Favors topic 16 Felons should be allowed after release from prison: Favors topic 16 Electoral College should not be eliminated: Opposes topic 16 Change Electoral College by proportional allocation of votes: Favors topic 16 Congress should lower Federal voting age to 16: Strongly Favors topic 16 Electoral College: allocate state votes proportionally: Strongly Favors topic 16 Lower voting age to 16 in federal elections: Strongly Favors topic 16 Supports statehood for DC & Puerto Rico: Strongly Favors topic 16 Adopt ranked-choice voting model for all primaries: Strongly Favors topic 16 Make Puerto Rico a state: Favors topic 16
Favors topic 17: Avoid foreign entanglements (+2 points on Social scale)	Require Congress to declare war: Favors topic 17 Declaring war is an act of Congress: Favors topic 17 Russian hacking of our elections is a hostile act: Opposes topic 17 We've been in continuous armed conflict for 18 years: Strongly Favors topic 17 Helping Ukraine defend itself against Russia helps US: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Leaving Iran deal was a massive strategic mistake: Strongly Favors topic 17 No quick answers on Israel, but supports two state solution: Opposes topic 17 Russia has been hacking our democracy for years: Opposes topic 17 May need more troops in Afghanistan: Opposes topic 17 Limited foreign intervention; restore Congress's role in war: Favors topic 17 Be very judicious about projecting force: Strongly Favors topic 17 Repeal post-9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force: Strongly Favors topic 17
Strongly Favors topic 18: Prioritize green energy (-5 points on Economic scale)	Bring a Green New Deal to NYCHA: Strongly Favors topic 18 Decarbonize US economy by 2035: Strongly Favors topic 18 Move subsidies from fossil fuel to wind and solar: Strongly Favors topic 18 Get incentives right to subsidize renewable energy: Favors topic 18 Set environmental standards for companies: Favors topic 18 Stop subsidizing fossil fuel industries; support carbon tax: Strongly Favors topic 18 Energy companies only operate on the bottom line: Strongly Favors topic 18 Convert to all-electric cars, via "Clunker" buy-backs: Favors topic 18 Nuclear needs to be on table; new reactors use thorium: Opposes topic 18 Apply geoengineering fixes, but ALSO reduce carbon emissions: Favors topic 18 Provide developing countries alternatives to fossil fuels: Favors topic 18 10 years too late on climate change, move to higher ground: Favors topic 18 US only accounts for 15% of global emissions, but take steps: Opposes topic 18 Rejoin rest of world in Paris Climate Agreement: Strongly Favors topic 18 Invest heavily in carbon capture and geoengineering: Strongly Favors topic 18 Carbon tax: internalize the cost of carbon emissions: Strongly Favors topic 18 Mixed score on "350 Action's 2020 Climate Test": Favors topic 18
Strongly Opposes topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (+5 points on Social scale)	Would override resistance to overdose prevention centers: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Take opioid profits and funnel them into treatment: Opposes topic 19 Safe injection centers & safe treatment centers for opioids: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Jail for dealers; treatment for addicts: Opposes topic 19 Explore allowing therapeutic use of psilocybin mushrooms: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Create safe opioid injection sites to prevent overdoses: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Fines and judgements to fund treatment of opioid crisis: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Decriminalize small opiate possession, safe injection sites: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Decriminalize opiates & marijuana, but not cocaine: Opposes topic 19 Legalize marijuana; pardon marijuana-related offenses: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Pardon non-violent drug offenders, focusing on marijuana: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Drug companies and medical system produces opioid addicts: Favors topic 19 Drug companies and medical system produces opioid addicts: Favors topic 19 War on Drugs has not worked: treatment instead of punishment: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Full legalization of marijuana; expunge federal convictions: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Decriminalize small quantities of opioid use and possession: Strongly Opposes topic 19
Strongly Favors topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (-5 points on Economic scale)	Subsidize rent for resident artists in buildings: Strongly Favors topic 20 Create the People's Bank of New York City: Strongly Favors topic 20 Launch largest basic income program in the country: Strongly Favors topic 20 OpEd: Yang wrong that automation causing massive job loss: Favors topic 20 We need to take best parts of both capitalism & socialism: Favors topic 20 Trickle up: create jobs by giving people buying power: Strongly Favors topic 20 Federal job programs are not the answer to changing economy: Opposes topic 20 Relaxing zoning laws would boost affordable housing: Favors topic 20 Redefine GDP to account for health & wellbeing: Strongly Favors topic 20 Automation of our jobs the central challenge we face: Strongly Favors topic 20 American Mall Act to transition closed malls to other uses: Strongly Favors topic 20 We're terrible at retraining; give people resources directly: Favors topic 20 Monthly stipend would help us through technological changes: Strongly Favors topic 20 Universal payments to all adults would have no stigma: Strongly Favors topic 20 2008 quantitative easing benefited institutions, not people: Strongly Opposes topic 20 Freedom Dividend: create a universal basic income: Strongly Favors topic 20 Subsidize journalists to do local reporting: Strongly Favors topic 20

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