| Introduction |
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#1 "Income Inequality Arises from Market Forces and Requires Government Intervention" |
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1 | (4) |
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#2 "Because We're Running Out of Resources, Government Must Manage Them" |
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5 | (4) |
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#3 "Equality Serves the Common Good" |
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9 | (4) |
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#4 "The More Complex the Society, the More Government Control We Need" |
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13 | (4) |
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#5 "Income Inequality Is the Great Economic and Moral Crisis of Our Time" |
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17 | (4) |
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#6 "Capitalism Fosters Greed and Government Policy Must Temper It" |
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21 | (4) |
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#7 "The Free Market Ignores the Poor" |
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25 | (4) |
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#8 "The Economy Needs More Planning---Central Planning, That Is" |
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29 | (6) |
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#9 "Human Rights Are More Important Than Property Rights" |
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35 | (4) |
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39 | (4) |
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#11 "Rich People Have an Obligation to Give Back" |
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43 | (4) |
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#12 "I Prefer Security to Freedom" |
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47 | (4) |
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#13 "Cooperation, Not Competition!" |
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51 | (6) |
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#14 "Healthcare Is a Right" |
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57 | (4) |
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#15 "We Are Destroying the Earth and Government Must Do Something" |
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61 | (4) |
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#16 "Ownership Must Be Tempered by Sharing" |
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65 | (6) |
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#17 "All We Need Is the Right People to Run the Government" |
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71 | (6) |
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#18 "Humanity Can Be Best Understood in a Collective Context" |
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77 | (6) |
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#19 "Big Government Is a Check on Big Business" |
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83 | (4) |
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#20 "Government Can Be a Compassionate Alternative to the Harshness of the Marketplace" |
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87 | (6) |
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#21 "Capitalism's Sweatshops and Child Labor Cry Out for Government Intervention" |
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93 | (4) |
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#22 "Voluntary, Market-Based Arrangements `Use' People" |
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97 | (6) |
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#23 "The Balance of Trade Deficit Requires Government Action" |
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103 | (4) |
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#24 "Americans Squander Their Incomes on Themselves While Public Needs Are Neglected" |
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107 | (4) |
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#25 "If Government Doesn't Relieve Distress, Who Will?" |
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111 | (4) |
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#26 "Historical Preservation Won't Happen Unless the Government Takes Charge" |
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115 | (4) |
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#27 "Government Must Have the Power to Make People Take Better Care of Themselves" |
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119 | (6) |
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#28 "Government Spending Brings Jobs and Prosperity" |
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125 | (4) |
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#29 "Upton Sinclair's The Jungle Proved Regulation Was Required" |
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129 | (8) |
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#30 "Capitalism's Industrial Revolution Cursed the World with the Horror of Child Labor" |
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137 | (6) |
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#31 "Labor Unions Raise Wages and the Standard of Living" |
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143 | (4) |
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#32 "FDR Was Elected in 1932 on a Progressive Platform to Plan the Economy" |
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147 | (6) |
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#33 "The Great Depression Was a Calamity of Unfettered Capitalism" |
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153 | (10) |
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#34 "Government Must Subsidize the Arts" |
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163 | (6) |
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#35 "Government Is an Inflation Fighter" |
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169 | (6) |
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#36 "Outsourcing Is Bad for the Economy" |
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175 | (6) |
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#37 "If FDR's New Deal Didn't End the Depression, Then World War II Did" |
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181 | (4) |
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#38 "The Minimum Wage Helps the Poor" |
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185 | (6) |
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#39 "Free Markets Exploit Women" |
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191 | (6) |
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#40 "The Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor Are Getting Poorer" |
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197 | (6) |
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#41 "Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company Proved We Needed Antitrust Laws to Fight Market Monopolies" |
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203 | (12) |
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#42 "Jesus Christ Was a Progressive Because He Advocated Income Redistribution to Help the Poor" |
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215 | (6) |
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#43 "The Free Market Cannot Provide Public Education" |
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221 | (6) |
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#44 "Warren Buffett's Federal Tax Rate Is Less Than His Secretary's" |
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227 | (6) |
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#45 "Profit Is Evidence of Suspicious Behavior" |
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233 | (6) |
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#46 "Robots and Computerization Cause Unemployment" |
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239 | (6) |
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#47 "Statistical Disparities between Races Prove Discrimination" |
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245 | (6) |
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#48 "The Solution to Over-Population Is Population Control" |
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251 | (6) |
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#49 "Resource-Poor Countries Need Strong Central Planning to Develop" |
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257 | (4) |
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#50 "People Love the Robin Hood Story Because He Took From the Rich to Give to the Poor" |
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261 | (6) |
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#51 "Greedy Capitalists Take Advantage of People in Natural Disasters; Price Controls Are the Answer" |
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267 | (6) |
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#52 "Progressives Have Good Intentions, So What Else Is Required?" |
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273 | (6) |
| About the Editor and Co-Author |
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279 | (2) |
| Contributing Authors |
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281 | (4) |
| Suggested Reading List |
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285 | (4) |
| Index |
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