Ralph Nader on Abortion

• Supports NOW’s agenda on Reproductive Rights. (Feb 2008)
• Supports stem cell research. (Feb 2008)
• Roe v. Wade is not at risk, even from GOP Supreme Court. (Oct 2002)
• If Roe is reversed, decision just reverts to the states. (Sep 2002)
• Threats to overturn Roe are “scare tactics”. (Nov 2000)
• Women should decide whether to use RU-486, not government. (Oct 2000)
• No government role; let women privately decide. (May 2000)
• Roe v Wade is safe; GOP must back off pushing it. (Feb 2000)

Ralph Nader on Budget & Economy

• Half of federal budget is now military spending. (Jan 2008)
• Jobs lost may not be replaced by new ones. (Jul 2003)
• 47 million full-time workers make less than $10 an hour. (Oct 2000)
• Use surplus to rebuild country & provide for communal needs. (Oct 2000)
• Top priorities: Infrastructure; poverty; preventive health. (Jul 2000)
• High gas prices are the fruit of corporate power. (Jun 2000)
• People indicators are down despite good economic indicators. (May 2000)
• Two-tiered economy is unhealthy & troubling. (May 2000)
• Allow citizen lawsuits for waste in govt spending. (Feb 2000)
• The economy is down, when measured by human yardsticks. (Feb 2000)
• Fed worries wrongly about wage inflation over profits. (Nov 1999)
• Spend surplus on public works & infrastructure. (Jul 1999)
• 1990s S&L crisis cost taxpayers billions. (Dec 1998)
• GNP fails to measure quality of life. (Dec 1995)

Ralph Nader on Civil Rights

• Safeguard the Constitution; the flag can take care of itself. (Oct 2008)
• Ban desecration of the Constitution; not flag desecration. (Jan 2008)
• Patriot Act associated with abuse of Muslim’s civil rights. (Nov 2004)
• Get rid of gay discrimination fully, not halfway. (Jul 2004)
• African Americans progress is too slow-we can do better. (Mar 2004)
• Women are still second-class citizens in school athletics. (Jan 2003)
• Questioned anti-female bias at 1950s Harvard Law School. (Oct 2002)
• Truth and reconciliation commission for Native Americans. (Aug 2000)
• Disagrees with ACLU on spending money as free speech. (Feb 2000)
• Supports “impenetrable protection of privacy”. (Oct 1996)
• Differentiate discriminatory justice from indiscriminate. (Oct 1996)
• Political discourse narrows when media serves Mammon. (Dec 1995)

  Gay Rights

• Nader supports gay marriage; but gay groups support Gore. (Nov 2000)
• Equal gay rights, including civil union. (Oct 2000)
• Supports Civil Union in Vermont and elsewhere. (May 2000)
• Long history of fighting in sexual politics. (Feb 2000)

Ralph Nader on Corporations

• Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory. (Feb 2008)
• Obama & McCain differ, but neither takes on corporations. (Feb 2008)
• Corporations have too much control over people’s lives. (Jan 2008)
• Corporations control government; that defines fascism. (Jan 2008)
• Citizens’ agenda for cracking down on corporate crime. (Oct 2004)
• No eminent domain gifts to private enterprises. (Aug 2004)
• Legislative “tort deform” for consumers, not corporations. (Jul 2004)
• Economic powers control our lives and our elections. (Jul 2004)
• Capitalism can lead to fascism. (Jul 2004)
• Corporations should not legally be counted as individuals. (Jul 2004)
• Giant corporations roam the Earth making people into serfs. (Jul 2004)
• Corporate politics is only free speech because money talks. (Oct 2002)
• Major parties both focus on wealthy interests. (Oct 2002)
• Net worth is $3.8 million; owns corporate stocks. (Oct 2002)
• Consumerism is about corporations vs. citizens. (Sep 2002)
• Shift power from corporations to consumers. (Oct 2000)
• Ethical rules should REQUIRE reporting corporate misconduct. (Dec 1998)
• Legal delaying tactics cause crisis in confidence in law. (Dec 1998)
• Corporate state gives away public assets to private monopoly. (Dec 1998)

  Auto Safety

• Instrumental in food safety laws as well as auto safety. (Feb 2008)
• Auto safety devices are simple & cheap; but take years. (Oct 2000)
• Safety regulation works; but Auto Safety Agency sold out. (Oct 2000)
• More regulation for auto safety, with criminal penalties. (Oct 2000)
• Cancel R&D giveaways to auto industry; let them do it. (Oct 2000)
• Gore has given auto industry and other polluters a free ride. (Oct 2000)
• Motor vehicles are the greatest environmental hazard. (Feb 2000)
• DOT: Focus on safety and mass transit. (Oct 1996)
• Automakers avoid replacing internal combustion engines. (Dec 1995)

  Consumer Rights

• Long history of pushing for reforms to make consumers safer. (Oct 2008)
• Instrumental in Consumer Product Safety Act and related laws. (Feb 2008)
• Help for ordinary people should replace corporate welfare. (Sep 2000)
• Address corporate crimes piecemeal AND by revoking charters. (Feb 2000)
• More public disclosure of corporate lawsuit outcomes. (Dec 1998)
• Billing quotas pressure corporate lawyers to pad bills. (Dec 1998)
• Stop giving corporations the same rights as people. (Dec 1995)

  Corporate Welfare

• Scrutinize even “good” corporate welfare which helps public. (Oct 2000)
• Corporate welfare is a function of political corruption. (Oct 2000)
• S&L bailout helped bankers & hurt consumers. (Oct 2000)
• Rules needed for examining & challenging corporate welfare. (Oct 2000)
• Disallow benefits to companies except for public purposes. (Oct 2000)
• Stadiums & other local tax abatements ignore small business. (Oct 2000)
• Federal regulation of state & local abatements & subsidies. (Oct 2000)
• Bailouts: require payback; practice prevention by regulation. (Oct 2000)
• Legislation to eliminate all corporate welfare. (Oct 2000)
• $1000 bounty for suing for abuse of corporate welfare. (Oct 2000)
• Big business influence hurts democracy. (Jun 2000)
• Corporate sponsorship turns debates into beer commercials. (Jun 2000)
• Corporate government has hijacked political leadership. (Feb 2000)
• States & the public should oppose corporate tax breaks. (Apr 1999)
• Role of government is to counteract power of corporations. (Apr 1996)
• Coined the term “corporate welfare”. (Jul 1995)

Ralph Nader on Crime

• Opposed 1996 expansion of the federal death penalty. (Feb 2008)
• Crime in the suites worse than crime in the streets. (Sep 2002)
• Decreasing unemployment reduces crime; not enforcement. (Aug 2000)
• Death penalty does not deter. (Aug 2000)
• Moratorium on executions. (Aug 2000)
• Some executed by death penalty were innocent. (Jul 2000)
• Pollution & toxic exposure cause more deaths than homicide. (Jun 2000)
• Death penalty does not deter & is discriminatory. (Jun 2000)
• Focus on crime prevention instead of harsher sentences. (Jun 2000)
• Police must follow the law too. (May 2000)
• Product liability suits are a pillar of democracy. (Mar 1996)
• Lawyers & victims need unlimited contingency fees. (Mar 1996)
• Regulatory agencies are needed to fight corporate crime. (Dec 1995)

Ralph Nader on Drugs

• The drug war has failed, despite $50B annually. (Feb 2008)
• Rehabilitation, not incarceration. (Jul 2004)
• Women targeted by tobacco and alcohol companies. (Feb 2003)
• Failed War on Drugs endangers communities. (Oct 2000)
• Legalize marijuana, and treat addiction as a health problem. (Sep 2000)
• Treat hemp like poppy seeds, not like heroin. (Sep 2000)
• Remove industrial hemp from DEA drug list. (Jun 2000)
• Replace Drug War with treatment and alternative sentencing. (Jun 2000)
• Supports legalization of industrial hemp. (May 2000)
• Solution to addiction is information, not prohibition. (Oct 1994)
• Rated A+ by VOTE-HEMP, indicating a pro-hemp voting record. (Dec 2003)

Ralph Nader on Education

• Abandon standardized testing; focus on teaching civic skills. (Oct 2000)
• Invest in K-12 education; that will reduce poverty. (Jun 2000)
• Teach democratic principles & citizenship in schools. (Feb 2000)
• Kick Channel One & commercialism out of class. (May 1999)
• Focus on civic & consumer education. (Oct 1996)
• Support choice within public schools. (Jun 2000)

Ralph Nader on Energy & Oil

• It is time to break our addiction to fossil fuels. (Feb 2008)
• End subsidies of entrenched oil, nuclear, & coal interests. (Feb 2008)
• US lags behind Europe & Japan in renewable energy. (Oct 2004)
• Kyoto treaty is so watered down there’s nothing to fight for. (Nov 2000)
• Drilling Alaska is a temporary fix for an inebriated system. (Oct 2000)
• More renewables & more efficency to stave off global warming. (Jul 2000)
• Raise CAFE standards; treat SUVs like cars. (Jul 2000)
• Congress should revive energy policies before crisis. (Oct 1999)
• Promote energy independence to avoid foreign wars. (Oct 1996)

Ralph Nader on Environment

• Instrumental in establishing EPA, CAA, and CWA. (Feb 2008)
• Dems surrendered to the auto industry on safety & pollution. (Oct 2002)
• Charge agribusiness for water; stop charging more to people. (Oct 2000)
• Mining companies get free mines for campaign contributions. (Oct 2000)
• Highway pork leads to sprawl, air pollution, global warming. (Oct 2000)
• End all commercial logging in National Forests. (Jul 2000)
• Head off a genetic engineering rampage. (Feb 2000)
• Protect whistleblowers on health, safety, & pollution. (Feb 2000)
• Corporate collectivism leads toward ecological disaster. (Feb 2000)
• More funds to maintain National Park system. (Jul 1999)
• Ridiculous to sell public land for corporate gold mining. (Dec 1998)
• National corporate charters for environmental bankruptcy. (Mar 1996)

Ralph Nader on Families & Children

• More & more family functions are outsourced to corporations. (Feb 2007)
• Corporations are commercializing the world of the child. (Jul 2004)
• Democracy needs youth’s energy & participation. (Jun 2000)
• Commercialism & TV make childrearing more difficult. (Jun 2000)
• Support personal responsibility; teach dispute resolution. (Jun 2000)
• TV ads targeting kids are “electronic child molesting”. (Feb 2000)
• Corporate TV marketers are raising our kids. (Oct 1999)
• National speed limit saves lives. (Mar 1996)
• Commercial TV separates children from parents. (Dec 1995)

Ralph Nader on Foreign Policy

• US should be the world’s humanitarian superpower. (Feb 2008)
• Corporate activity destroys the third world. (Jul 2004)
• Redefine national purpose to solve Third World scourges. (Jun 2000)
• Support foreign peasants instead of foreign dictators. (Jun 2000)
• Support social and economic justice across the globe. (Jun 2000)
• Assist Russia & Israel in moving towards better governments. (Jun 2000)
• Selling arms is not a good way to conduct foreign affairs. (Feb 2000)
• Cuba: corporate sales of junk undermines their system. (Feb 2000)
• Support human rights as cornerstone of US foreign policy. (Jun 2000)

Ralph Nader on Free Trade

• In anti-globalization book, “The Case Against Free Trade”. (Feb 2008)
• WTO makes trade supreme over labor, environment & consumers. (Feb 2008)
• Free trade isn’t win-win: we’re exporting jobs. (Jul 2003)
• High-tech jobs lost to foreign countries. (Jul 2003)
• NAFTA and GATT supersede national and state laws. (Sep 2002)
• Restrict IMF power, or abolish it. (Oct 2000)
• End export assistance; it’s corporate welfare. (Oct 2000)
• Renegotiate NAFTA & WTO “as if human beings mattered”. (Oct 2000)
• Subordinate the commercial to human rights, enviro, & labor. (Jul 2000)
• It’s not free trade; it’s corporate-managed trade. (Apr 2000)
• NAFTA failures: $50B Mexico bailout; 400,000 exported jobs. (Oct 1996)
• China & other dictatorships have no real free trade. (Jul 2000)

  Globalization

• Globalization is a betrayal of workers and environment. (Nov 2000)
• Seattle sparked movement to question corporate globalization. (Feb 2000)
• “Battle of Seattle” convinced president to reconsider WTO. (Dec 1999)
• Global trade concentrates power & homogenizes the globe. (Dec 1999)
• WTO’s “trade uber alles” hurts environment, health, & safety. (Dec 1999)
• A growing movement: international labor rights. (Aug 1999)
• Multinational corporations challenge democracy. (Oct 1994)

Ralph Nader on Government Reform

• I believe in strong regulatory agencies. (Nov 2008)
• $13M for “educational” party conventions wastes tax dollars. (Jul 2004)
• The two parties are proxies for corporate government. (Jul 2004)
• National Youth Convention bypasses electoral fluff and bluff. (Oct 2002)
• Lack of election opponents let corrupt pols stay in office. (Oct 2002)
• Concentrated party power weakens democracy. (Feb 2000)
• Ken Starr had conflict on partiality, and corporate ties. (Dec 1998)
• Focus on anti-trust enforcement to help small business. (Oct 1996)
• Government delivers more service than people realize. (Dec 1995)
• Give voters more voices and choices. (Feb 2007)

  Campaign Finance Reform

• No PAC money, no commercial donations; only individuals. (Feb 2008)
• Public funding of campaigns would fight corporate control. (Feb 2008)
• Clean money means clean elections. (Oct 2002)
• Dems & GOP say they want campaign reform, but do nothing. (Oct 2002)
• Green Party does not take PAC, soft, or corporate cash. (Oct 2000)
• No private money in public campaigns. (Aug 2000)
• Spending campaign money is not free speech. (Feb 2000)
• Public campaign finance; 12-year term limits. (Feb 2000)
• Public election financing, with free TV & radio time. (Feb 2000)
• 100% publicly funded campaigns, by $100 tax checkoff. (Oct 1996)

  Citizen Empowerment

• Big problem in politics is excessive concentration of power. (Oct 2008)
• Government become unresponsive to citizen groups in 1979. (Feb 2008)
• Civic engagement fights corporate-government fascism. (Oct 2004)
• Democracy gap: people must claim power, or the greedy will. (Jul 2004)
• Giving information to people overcomes propaganda. (Jul 2004)
• Change requires a critical mass of the involved. (Jul 2004)
• Non-violent demonstrations are ignored by the press. (Oct 2002)
• Primary architect of Freedom of Information Act. (Sep 2002)
• Empower citizens via accurate information from govt. (Feb 2000)
• Reinvent democracy via new tools for citizen empowerment. (Feb 2000)
• Secret lawsuit settlements deprive public of power to decide. (Dec 1998)

  Legal Reform

• Supreme Court nominees should have a sense of justice. (Aug 2000)
• Justices need sense of justice & sense of history. (Jul 2000)
• Supplement Legal Services Corporation with free lawyer work. (Dec 1998)
• Tighten ethics rules on lawyers, to judge cases on merits. (Dec 1998)

  Voting Reform

• For fair ballot access and fair debate access. (Feb 2008)
• Instant Runoff Voting makes all votes count. (Jan 2008)
• Taking away votes from Democrats gains leverage. (Jul 2004)
• Advocate to allow people to vote “no confidence”. (Jul 2004)
• Denying D.C. vote is colonial mentality by congress. (Oct 2002)
• Government obstacles to voting make our elections oppressive. (Oct 2002)
• Increase voting by weekend and holiday Election Days. (Sep 2002)
• Allow voting for “None of the Above”. (Feb 2000)

Ralph Nader on Gun Control

• Support Brady Bill & thoughtful gun control. (Jun 2000)
• Supports trigger locks, licensing, & banning some guns. (Jun 2000)

Ralph Nader on Health Care

• For single-payer; all major candidates oppose it. (Feb 2008)
• Billing fraud and abuse costs $200B. (Feb 2008)
• Single-payer health care plan over for-profit care. (Feb 2008)
• 3.5% payroll tax to fund universal healthcare. (Sep 2002)
• Enforce fair drug prices if sponsored by govt research. (Oct 2000)
• Medicare prescriptions covered under universal health care. (Sep 2000)
• Price restraints on drugs; limit profiteering. (Sep 2000)
• Opposes assisted suicide laws for terminally ill. (Aug 2000)
• Cradle-to-grave health care better than Clinton’s plan. (Jul 2000)
• Use Canadian system as a model for US. (May 2000)
• Health care is a universal human right. (May 2000)
• Recast health care in a non-profit mode. (Mar 2000)
• Keep commercialism out of maternity wards. (Aug 1999)
• Make medicines affordable in Third World. (Jul 1999)
• Challenge the monetization of HMOs. (Jul 1999)
• HMO review procedures must be independent of HMOs. (Jul 1999)
• HMO plan: accountability, doctor-driven, independent review. (Jul 1999)
• Stop shifting liability from HMOs to doctors. (Dec 1998)
• Stop firing doctors for pointing out bad conditions at HMOs. (Dec 1998)
• Big Pharma blocks selling generic drugs to Third World. (Dec 1998)
• Criticizes “sweetheart deal” for big tobacco. (Nov 1998)

  Tobacco

• Council for Tobacco Research is for propaganda, not research. (Dec 1998)
• Tobacco industry hid truth via attorney-client privilege. (Dec 1998)
• Let FDA regulate nicotine as an addictive drug. (Mar 1996)
• Tobacco is the world’s worst air pollutant. (Oct 1994)

Ralph Nader on Homeland Security

• A wasteful defense is a weak defense. (Feb 2008)
• Hold Bush accountable for torture & illegal war. (Feb 2008)
• Solving Palestinian-Israeli conflict would reduce terrorism. (Feb 2008)
• End secret detentions & restore civil liberties. (Feb 2008)
• Bush should apologize for failing our troops. (Nov 2006)
• Repeal the Patriot Act; end secret detentions. (Nov 2004)
• Weapons corporations indirectly control tax dollars. (Jan 2003)
• Bush attacks civil liberties while saying he defends them. (Oct 2002)
• Cut defense budget by $62B by reducing waste & fraud. (Sep 2002)
• Corporate welfare: taxpayers fund defense industry mergers. (Oct 2000)
• Deter wars by being attuned abroad. (Oct 2000)
• Kill F-22, Seawolf, Osprey, & other gold-plated weapons. (Oct 2000)
• Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is discriminatory against gays. (Sep 2000)
• SDI doesn’t work; money better spent elsewhere. (Jul 2000)
• Stop using weapons sales to determine foreign policy. (Jun 2000)
• Stop spending on unneeded weapons & non-existent enemies. (Jun 2000)
• Cut defense budget by $100B; time to demobilize. (May 2000)
• Stop unneeded defense of prosperous countries. (May 2000)
• Defense frameworks: how to wage peace while building weapons. (Feb 2000)
• Popular participation instead of corporate involvement. (Feb 2000)
• Supports Test Ban Treaty & arms control. (Feb 2000)
• Arms race is driven by corporate demand. (Feb 2000)
• F-22 aircraft is unneeded; and dangerous to fly. (Feb 2000)

Ralph Nader on Immigration

• Migrant workers are exploited; crack down on employers. (Nov 2008)
• Address immigration as part of worldwide economic justice. (Feb 2008)
• H1B visas in US cause “brain drain” in Third World. (Feb 2008)
• Don’t criminalize the border; but no open border either. (Oct 2000)
• Guest workers OK, with labor standards. (Oct 2000)
• Support democracy abroad so fewer will immigrate. (Oct 2000)
• Immigrants don’t come for welfare; restore safety net. (Jun 2000)
• Don’t blame immigrants for social and economic problems. (Jun 2000)

Ralph Nader on Jobs

• Taft-Hartley keeps workers defenseless against globalization. (Feb 2008)
• Supports a living wage of at least $10 an hour. (Feb 2008)
• Focus on family farms instead of large agribusiness. (Oct 2000)
• U.S. farm policy should focus on family farmers. (Sep 2000)

  Labor

• Living wage spreads economic expansion to reach all areas. (Oct 2000)
• Repeal Taft-Hartley; strengthen unions. (Oct 2000)
• Unions struggle even in heart of union country. (Sep 2000)
• Vote for a union supporter, not against Republicans. (Aug 2000)
• Message to Democrats: Don’t take labor for granted. (Jul 2000)
• Raise the minimum wage immediately. (Jun 2000)
• Functional wages are falling despite economic boom. (Jun 2000)
• Top CEOs make 415 times entry wages. (Feb 2000)
• Limit executive salaries & perks. (Feb 2000)
• Student pressure can help oppressed textile workers abroad. (Aug 1999)

Ralph Nader on Principles & Values

• Organize to give the president some backbone. (Feb 2008)
• The two parties steal elections & can’t even count the votes. (Feb 2008)
• The only true aging is the erosion of one’s ideals. (Feb 2008)
• Hillary is a panderer; Obama is too abstract & general. (Feb 2008)
• Bloomberg run would add to debate, but not stop a Nader run. (Feb 2008)
• The “money horse race” is unhealthy, rancid politics. (Feb 2007)
• Hillary is a panderer, flatterer, & corporate Democrat. (Feb 2007)
• For 2008, likes Bloomberg, Gravel, Kucinich, & Bill Moyers. (Feb 2007)
• New book, “The 17 Traditions”, about his upbringing. (Feb 2007)
• Hillary is a corporate Democrat, a panderer and a flatterer. (Feb 2007)
• Listening is the first of the “Seventeen Traditions”. (Feb 2007)
• Bush is turning the U.S. into a police state. (Jul 2004)
• Saw anti-Bork campaign as constituency-building opportunity. (Feb 2003)
• Gore & Bush both ignore youth issues in favor of fat cats. (Oct 2002)
• “Priceless” ad caused lawsuit but got priceless attention. (Oct 2002)
• Nader “stood” for president in 1996 (didn’t “run”). (Oct 2002)
• Political systems benefit from outside competition. (Sep 2002)
• Dems will lose until they become more progressive. (Sep 2002)
• Bush intensifies contradictions and galvanizes progressives. (Sep 2002)
• Ran because unable to get hearing with president or Congress. (Sep 2002)
• Suffers from Bell’s Palsy. (Sep 2002)
• Experience to run government comes from suing most agencies. (Oct 2000)
• Focus on broader distribution of power. (Aug 2000)
• Spoiled political system spawns spoiled candidates. (Jul 2000)
• Uses personal income as societal change agent. (Jun 2000)
• Opposes concentration of power & monied interests. (Mar 2000)
• Counter “democracy gap”: raise expectations in politics. (Feb 2000)
• New populism: citizen participation over commercialism. (Feb 2000)
• Expand agenda to voter, worker, consumer, shareholder. (Apr 1996)
• Struggle against commercialism based on priceless things. (Oct 1994)
• Sacrificed personal life because civic work is a joy. (Oct 1994)
• Power corrupts, unless it fears loss of power. (Oct 1994)
• Pushed consumer protection in “Nader’s Raiders”. (Feb 2000)

  Green Party

• Both major parties don’t like competition. (Oct 2008)
• Running because 61% think both major parties are failing. (Feb 2008)
• Two parties have been converging; both flunk for the future. (Feb 2008)
• Ready for Democratic lawsuits against ballot access. (Feb 2008)
• Greens focus on substance; day-&-night vs. major parties. (Jan 2008)
• Green nominee, but declined rival Green Party USA. (Oct 2002)
• Waited 16 years; Dems no different than GOP about power. (Nov 2000)
• Attract new voters to build future party. (Oct 2000)
• Vote conscience rather than choosing between drab and dreary. (Sep 2000)
• One purpose of campaign is moving Democrats Left. (Jul 2000)
• The DemRep duopoly obstructs citizenship. (Feb 2000)

  Seventeen Traditions

• Raised to challenge preconceptions and reject conformity. (Jan 2007)
• Had “a lucky choice of parents” who passed down traditions. (Jan 2007)
• Grew up in Winsted CT, a mill town where everyone walked. (Jan 2007)

  Spoiler Issue

• Gore responsible for 2000 election; Bush responsible since. (Feb 2008)
• Democrats should landslide Republicans in 2008. (Feb 2008)
• Dislikes “spoiler” label and “strategic voting”. (Oct 2002)
• Gore beat Gore -- look at TN, AR, and WV, not FL. (Sep 2002)
• Wants credit for a Democratic Senate in 2000 election. (Sep 2002)

Ralph Nader on Social Security

• Social Security should not be voluntary; keep community. (Nov 2008)
• Candidates focus on elderly because young people don’t vote. (Oct 2002)
• Social Security is solid; pending bankruptcy is nonsense. (Sep 2000)
• Pensions controlled by people, not banks or insurers. (Feb 2000)
• Social insurance is government at its noblest. (Jan 1999)
• Social Security privatization replaces certainty with risk. (Jan 1999)
• Fears loss of retirement funds in privatized investments. (Jan 1999)

Ralph Nader on Tax Reform

• Corporations should appreciate taxpayers for their subsidies. (Apr 2008)
• End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators. (Feb 2008)
• Stop tax cuts and start dealing with real problems. (Jun 2003)
• Tax code loopholes benefit corporate donors & cost taxpayers. (Oct 2000)
• Sunshine on tax loopholes; sunset on tax breaks. (Oct 2000)
• Put meat in the process of progressive taxation. (Oct 2000)
• More taxpayer input into tax & spending policy. (Feb 2000)
• Tax breaks for big business hurt families. (Dec 1999)
• Tax breaks to big business unfairly hurt small business. (Apr 1999)
• Focus on under-taxation of corporations, not income tax. (Oct 1996)
• Against flat tax; keep progressivity. (Oct 1996)

Ralph Nader on War & Peace

• Take troops out of Iraq. (Nov 2008)
• Rapid and responsible withdrawal of US military from Iraq. (Feb 2008)
• Stop saber rattling against Iran; start negotiating. (Feb 2008)
• Bush should never have invaded Iraq. (Nov 2006)
• Responsible six-month withdrawal from Iraq occupation. (Jul 2004)
• Impeach Bush & Cheney for 5 falsehoods on Iraq war. (Apr 2004)
• Bush is acting as a selected dictator. (Jul 2003)
• US oil companies & Bush Admin eye Iraqi oil. (Feb 2003)
• US deserves to know the influence of the oil industry. (Feb 2003)
• Americans don’t believe in Bush on Iraq. (Jan 2003)
• Palestinian statehood and security for Israel. (Sep 2002)
• Afghanistan: Bush burned down haystack to find needle. (Sep 2002)
• Wage peace and anticipate conflicts abroad. (Oct 2000)
• Should have anticipated Yugoslav breakup by “waging peace”. (Jul 2000)
• Forget “hot spots”; ask “How did we get into this?”. (Jun 2000)
• Iraq: Trade sanctions strengthen Saddam. (May 2000)
• Bosnia: Force acceptable to help against mass slaughter. (Oct 1996)

Ralph Nader on Welfare & Poverty

• Visit poor cities to put faces on poverty statistics. (Oct 2002)
• Charity work is good; but politics addresses root causes. (Oct 2000)
• Attack corporate welfare kings, not poor welfare queens. (Oct 2000)
• Limit executive compensation to 30-to-1 over lowest pay. (Oct 2000)
• Domestic Marshall Plan to abolish poverty. (Oct 2000)
• Democracy can’t co-exist with gross income inequality. (Jun 2000)
• Retail malls siphon off business from central cities. (May 2000)
• Homelessness is peaking despite good economy. (May 2000)
• Big business lobbying subordinates democracy. (Feb 2000)
• Lawyers have duty to do pro bono work for the poor. (Dec 1998)
• Housing legislation converted pro bono to profit. (Dec 1998)
• Training & earned income credits are corporate subsidies. (Apr 1996)

  Homelessness

• Severe shortage in affordable housing. (Jun 2003)
• 14M families spend half of their income on housing. (Jun 2003)
• 1.35 million children are homeless. (Jun 2003)