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• The United States military planned to fabricate violence apparently perpetrated by Cubans in order to create public support for attacking Cuba (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama has improved the United State's relationship with the rest of the world (3+/0- justifications)
• President Obama is working thoughtfully and carefully to plan the United States' involvement in Afghanistan (1+/0- justifications)
• The tax systems of nearly every US state is regressive, that is, the poor and the middle class pay significantly more of their incomes in taxes (1+/0- justifications)
• The critics are motiviated to discredit global warming before COP15 (United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009) (1+/0- justifications)
• US charities are making tax-exempt donations to the Israeli forced settlement of palestine (1+/0- justifications)
• UK is applying a one-time 50% tax on bonuses greater than $40,800 given to employees of bailed out companies (1+/0- justifications)
• Over the past two decades, U.S. states have increasingly liberalized their gun restriction laws (1+/0- justifications)
• 75% of all income gains during the Bush administration went to the 1% wealthiest (1+/0- justifications)
• The health reform bills passed in the house and senate will help low and middle income people (3+/0- justifications)
• Premiums for low and middle income people will be lower (subsidized by government) after health reform (0+/0- justifications)
• Michael Bloomberg was easy on corporate tax evasion as mayor of New York City (1+/0- justifications)
• The militia of the United States consists of all male citizens between the ages of 17 and 45 (and any female members of the National Guard) (1+/0- justifications)
• The United Nations Population Fund supports the forced abortion and infanticide of China's "one child" program. (1+/0- justifications)
• Federal criminal law only forbids the commission of torture outside the United States (1+/0- justifications)
• George W. Bush tried to hide US income inequality (1+/0- justifications)
• Senator Patrick Moynihan, D-NY, introduced and passed a tax law that seriously inhibited the ability of computer programmers to work as independent contracters, all in order to give IBM a tax break for its overseas operations (1+/0- justifications)
• Southern states were allowed to maintain the status quo of slavery (0+/0- justifications)
• Only newly created states would not be allowed to have slavery (0+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was states' rights (0+/2- justifications)
• Confederate leaders who later claimed that states' rights were the cause of the US civil war had claimed before the war that slavery was the cause (1+/0- justifications)
• Over one-third of US citizens pay no income taxes (1+/1- justifications)
• Obama plans to make almost half of US citizens pay no income taxes (1+/0- justifications)
• Obama's tax cuts will decrease taxes for 95% of US citizens (0+/2- justifications)
• Obamas tax cuts will decrease taxes for 95% of working US citizens (1+/0- justifications)
• Eighteen states in the U.S. have enacted barriers to either make it difficult or impossible for communities to build publicly-owned networks (1+/0- justifications)
• An oil and manufacturing company Koch Enterprises, the second largest private company in the United States, has secretly spent $50 million over ten years to support climate change denial (2+/0- justifications)
• The slave-holding states explicitly and solely relied upon their fear of the abolition of slavery as justification for their secession (6+/0- justifications)
• The Constitution of the Confederate States of America explicitly provided that no law would be passed to deny or impair property in slaves (2+/0- justifications)
• Slave-states feared that the abolition of slavery was nigh (0+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was a disagreement about states' rights (1+/0- justifications)
• The constitution of the Confederate States of America included a provision that limited the Confederacy's ability to appropriate money for intrastate improvements (1+/0- justifications)
• The Constitution of the Confederate States of America explicitly provided that any state added to the Confederacy would be a slave-state (1+/0- justifications)
• In 1797, the U.S. Senate voted unanimously in favor of a treaty that explicitly described the United States as not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion (Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli November 4, 1796) (2+/0- justifications)
• Netflix, Audible, and Amazon all require authors to impose strict copyright licenses upon their work even if the author doesn't want to (1+/0- justifications)
• The United States' racism against minorities provides justification for other countries to criticize U.S. policies and sincerity towards democracy (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama is capable of leading the United States military. (1+/0- justifications)
• The occupation of Afghanistan is not a multilateral operation; the United States is the only country interested in remaining there. (1+/0- justifications)
• The median U.S. household income decreased by over $2,000 between 1999 and 2008 (2008 dollars) (1+/0- justifications)
• The Bush II tax cuts cost $1.8 trillion between 2001 and 2008 (3+/0- justifications)
• The original personal exemption for U.S. income tax was $3K in 1913, equal to $65K in 2009 (1+/0- justifications)
• Only 39% of U.S. citizens believe in Darwin's theory of evolution (1+/0- justifications)
• 41% of U.S. citizens believe in extra-sensory perception (ESP) (1+/0- justifications)
• George W. Bush increased the national debt by $5.1T in 8 years to fund the invasion of two countries that were unrelated to the 911 attacks and to fund tax cuts for the wealthy (1+/0- justifications)
• The Citizens United US Supreme Court case disproportionately favors conservative politics (2+/0- justifications)
• Adherants of the "sovereign citizen" theory have killed 8 law enforcement officers in the United States between Jan. 2008 and Dec. 2010 (1+/0- justifications)
• Corporate taxes should be abolished and replaced with personal income taxes (3+/0- justifications)
• Pubmed is the United States National Library of Medicine's online database for medical articles (1+/0- justifications)
• Post Citizens United, U.S. politicians are unaware of the identities of donors who donate $1M (1+/0- justifications)
• Trinity College, Cambridge is the most prestigious college for mathematicians in the United Kingdom (1+/0- justifications)
• A large number of "put options" were placed on United Airlines stock shortly before September 11 (1+/0- justifications)
• Laws that give special privileges to professional journalists are broadening to include citizens acting in a journalistic role (1+/0- justifications)
• The United States comprises 11 cultural nations (1+/0- justifications)
• Southeast asia uses bonded labor to provide plentiful cheap shrimp to the United States (1+/0- justifications)
• Tobacco companies stand to greatly profit from tobacco sales. Abortion doctors do not profit greatly, if at all, from the abortions they perform, and were the doctors not to perform abortions, they could easily replace their income by offering other medical procedures (0+/0- justifications)
• Increased patent filing fees in the America Invests Act (AIA) are a tax on innovation (1+/0- justifications)
• Unmanned drones (UAVs) in Yemen have killed several US citizens (1+/0- justifications)
• Ambien can revive persons from vegitative coma states (1+/0- justifications)