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Southwest Airlines is the low-cost U.S. airline I prefer to fly with.
The Obama Administration's handling of the auto bailout has been unsatisfactory. Poor ideas and poor planning.
Congress should not grant the Treasury Department authority to take over non-bank financial institutions that pose a systemic risk.
The U.S. dollar should not be the world's reserve currency.
Secretary Geithner's public-private partnership to buy up toxic assets will not help stabilize the financial system.
The U.S. government should not implement a moratorium on home foreclosures.
Congress should implement a payroll tax holiday in light of the recession.
Governments should not nationalize insolvent banks in response to the financial crisis. The only way to rid the tree of bad fruit is to prune it off.
The U.S. government should try to recoup AIG bonuses.
The government should not regulate salaries of companies who have received bailout funds. I only say this because there should be no bailout!
The economic stimulus plan should not include a 'Buy American' provision. It would be nice, but it is not practical.
The U.S. federal government should not provide financial support to its auto industry. If the industry made poor choices and bad union contracts, the company and the union should both suffer the consequences.
Congress should increase the cap on federally insured bank deposits.
Performance fees of hedge fund managers should be taxed as regular income. It is compensation.
The Treasury Department should block severance packages for Fannie and Freddie corporate executives.
Governments should not infuse capital directly into failing banks as part of their response to the financial crisis. This will encourage irresponsible behavior in the future similar to the financial behavior that has caused the failures. "The government will bail us out!"
AIG should not have been bailed out by the federal government. Our money should not be used to bail out irresponsible corporations or banks.
The U.S. is undergoing the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. It may not have been a year and a half ago-it is now.
Congress should not enact the Employee Free Choice Act. Bye bye secret ballot!
The government should allow large banks to fail. People need to be held accountable for their actions-bankers and consumers alike.
The proposed 90% tax on AIG bonuses is not constitutional. Clearly not...this would constitute a Bill of Attainder
It was not appropriate for the Obama Administration to force GM's CEO Rick Wagoner to resign. Wagoner should probably have resigned, but the federal government should neither be bailing out GM nor forcing an officer of a private company to resign-or nationalizing industries!
Lehman Brothers should not have been bailed out by the federal government.
Bush Administration policies have had a positive impact on the economy. There should probably be a "somewhere in the middle" option on this question.
Coke makes a better tasting cola than Pepsi. I'm a Cub fan and a Coke man.
The federal government should not pass the proposed $700 billion financial system bailout. Absolutely not. We the taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize people's irresponsibility.
Call centers should be required to disclose the physical location of their employees. When someone randomly calls my house, I ought to have a right to know where they are calling from.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should not be nationalized. Nationalizing Fannie and Freddie will not solve the mortgage crisis, but is likely to give the housing market just the kind of false prop-up that led to its collapse to begin with.
Congress should not issue a second round of the 2008 stimulus checks. What good will this do? It will only issue another check, paid for by money the government does not have, to be spent paying off people's overburdened credit card debt.
Free trade is necessary for economic development. I'm not sure I like the fact that this is just a yes/no question. The issue is more complicated than that.
Weakening dollar is having the greatest impact on rising oil prices. World oil prices are tied to the U.S. Dollar. If the Dollar remains weak and inflated, oil prices will continue to remain high.
There should be no federal minimum wage. There should probably not be a federal minimum wage-but States should definately have the right (and perhaps the priority) to set a minimum wage if they please.
Private equity deals have a negative effect on the public.
The U.S. Federal Reserve should lower interest rates. Lower them to the floor.
Recessions are not necessary for sustained economic growth. Recessions are in no way "necessary" for economic growth. They may be a consequence of "false" growth, however.
Obese travelers should not pay more for airline tickets. Should fat people pay more for gas than anyone else? You might as well ask that kind of question.
The Federal Reserve is not necessary in a free market. It never has been necessary in a free market.
The Bush Administration stimulus package will not prevent a recession. It certainly hasn't prevented a recession so far.
Congress should not increase copyright protection for fashion designs.
Farmers should grow genetically modified crops. It should be up to the farmer what kind of crops they wish to raise and sell. Like organic foods, genetically modified foods should be labelled as such.