Sample policy topics

Are these good policies?

• How the overuse of antibiotics leads to antibiotic resistance.
• Anitibiotic use should not be regulated because such regulation would be expensive and cost lives
• Anitibiotic use should be regulated to reduce antibiotic resistance
• Animals should not be used for testing cosmetics because it is cruel to the animals.
• Animals should not be used for testing cosmetics because the approach is less reliable than computer modelling.

  Topics done before

     
  
  Congress should mandate use of solar water heaters in all new 
  buildings capable of having more than 10 occupants thru the
  use of low-interest loan program to spread cost over a decade.
  
  A midwest regional rail system starting with 3C traffic 
  and freight could be relatively self-sustaining  while
  decreasing need for more roads and traffic-associated pollution. 
  
  Deer population should be reduced by long hunting
  periods and urban nigh sharpshooter to stable 250,000.
  
  Federal government should fund research to develop
  bio-plastics using crops not needed for food.
  

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