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Oct. 24th, 2004 10:32 amHigh taxes so the state can reduce inequities or low taxes because people are better at deciding how to spend money than states are?
Encourage immigration to help grow the economy and support our aging population, or discourage it to reserve jobs for the people already here?
More speed cameras, because people can't be trusted with fast cars, or higher speed limits, because they can?
Abolish the monarchy as anachronistic and undemocratic, or preserve it as an important element of constitution and tradition?
Subsidize local producers to preserve traditional ways of life, or cut subsidies and give the rest of the world a chance to improve itself through trade?
Stay in the EU, or leave? Let Turkey in, supposing it carries through its reforms, or keep it out at all costs?
Longer prison sentences, or try to rehabilitate criminals?
Bring back the death penalty, or not?
Get out of Iraq now, or stay (and maybe take out Iran's enrichment facilities)?
Dozens more nuclear power stations, ubiquitous wind farms or import gas from unsavoury eastern regimes?
What should be done about pensions? (Abolish means testing on the grounds it discourages saving? Higher taxes to support retired baby-boomers? Encourage or force people to save for themselves?)