Introduction -- #1 "Income inequality arises from market forces and requires government intervention" -- #2 "Because we're running out of resources, government must manage them" -- #3 "Equality serves the common good" -- #4 "The more complex the society, the more government control we need" -- #5 "Income inequality is the great economic and moral crisis of our time" -- #6 "Capitalism fosters greed and government policy must temper it" -- #7 "The free market ignores the poor" -- #8 "The economy needs more planning -- central planning, that is" -- #9 "Human rights are more important than property rights" -- #10 "I have a right!" -- #11 "Rich people have an obligation to give back" -- #12 "I prefer security to freedom" -- #13 "Cooperation, not competition!" -- #14 "Healthcare is a right" -- #15 "We are destroying the earth and government must do something" -- #16 "Ownership must be tempered by sharing" -- #17 "All we need is the right people to run the government" -- #18 "Humanity can be best understood in a collective context" -- #19 "Big government is a check on big business" -- #20 "Government can be a compassionate alternative to the harshness of the marketplace" -- #21 "Capitalism's sweatshops and child labor cry out for government intervention" -- #22 "Voluntary, market-based arrangements `use' people" -- #23 "The balance of trade deficit requires government action" -- #24 "Americans squander their incomes on themselves while public needs are neglected" -- #25 "If government doesn't relieve distress, who will?" -- #26 "Historical preservation won't happen unless the government takes charge" -- #27 "Government must have the power to make people take better care of themselves" -- #28 "Government spending brings jobs and prosperity" -- #29 "Upton Sinclair's The Jungle proved regulation was required" -- #30 "Capitalism's industrial revolution cursed the world with the horror of child labor" -- #31 "Labor unions raise wages and the standard of living" -- #32 "FDR was elected in 1932 on a Progressive platform to plan the economy" -- #33 "The great depression was a calamity of unfettered capitalism" -- #34 "Government must subsidize the arts" -- #35 "Government is an inflation fighter" -- #36 "Outsourcing is bad for the economy" -- #37 "If FDR's New Deal didn't end the Depression, then World War II did" -- #38 "The minimum wage helps the poor" -- #39 "Free markets exploit women" -- #40 "The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer" -- #41 "Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company proved we needed antitrust laws to fight market monopolies" -- #42 "Jesus Christ was a Progressive because he advocated income redistribution to help the poor" -- #43 "The free market cannot provide public education" -- #44 "Warren Buffett's federal tax rate is less than his secretary's" -- #45 "Profit is evidence of suspicious behavior" -- #46 "Robots and computerization cause unemployment" -- #47 "Statistical disparities between races prove discrimination" -- #48 "The solution to over-population is population control" -- #49 "Resource-poor countries need strong central planning to develop" -- #50 "People love the Robin Hood story because he took from the rich to give to the poor" -- #51 "Greedy capitalists take advantage of people in natural disasters; price controls are the answer" -- #52 "Progressives have good intentions, so what else is required?".
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