Edward Sonnino
Historical Details
Position on Issues
For| Read My Position
"The point of public education is to ensure that all children, particularly those of low and middle income families, get an excellent education for free. It is not to create and maintain a monopolistic public school system not subjected to market competition. Vouchers ensure free education for low and middle income children, and thanks to the competition they engender they provide for much better schools."
Other| Read My Position
"To minimize illegal immigration, all we need is to have high-tech Social Security ID cards (with photo) for every working age adult, connected to a centralized federal data base. Employers will be required to register all their employees with the federal data base. All persons requesting welfare or hospital assistance will be required to present their Social Security cards."
Against| Read My Position
"But it is a delusion to think that gun control is a solution. Gun control laws will have no more effect than drug control laws. Drugs are illegal, yet they are sold and bought everywhere. The same would happen if guns were made illegal, let alone simply registered. People who wanted guns without registering them would find them on the black market. Gun control laws only have the effect of increasing black market sales, not of limiting gun sales, particularly not to criminals or deranged individuals."
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"Before we make any major decisions on how to deal with climate change, we had better be sure our understanding of past major climate changes is correct."
Other| Read My Position
"Replacing the income tax with a sales tax would lead to a veritable economic boom."
Against| Read My Position
"Counter-intuitively, decriminalizing drugs would have the effect of reducing illegal drug sales and consumption by reducing the profits in pushing" drugs. The only reason illegal drugs have high prices and are profitable is because they are illegal. Decriminalize them and their prices will plummet profits will evaporate and the number of drug dealers/pushers will decline dramatically. Fewer kids will be coaxed by 'pushers' into trying drugs and consequently there will be less drug addiction. It stands to reason that if Prohibition failed to work in the 1920's with regard to alcohol making drugs illegal cannot work either. It hasn't worked in fact."
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"As for the death penalty, it is a medieval, barbarous punishment which should be abolished."
For| Read My Position
"Not only should we immediately switch to a pure IRA social security system going forward, but we should immediately close out the existing system by refunding all past Social Security contributions with interest (but minus Social Security payouts) to every taxpayer."
