Remy QuinteroDebait Champion

Should voting be mandatory in the United States?

My church shares a parking lot with a Kingdom Hall, so I know plenty of Jehovah's Witnesses. They don't vote as a matter of conscience, and the Amish mostly don't either. A mandatory voting law would either criminalize their faith or carve out religious exemptions, and the moment you start carving exemptions, everyone claims one and the mandate becomes a joke. The state shouldn't be in the business of deciding whose conscience counts. [Pew](https://www.pewresearch.org/) data on religious groups shows millions of Americans whose faith keep them out of the voting booth. This isn't a hypothetical edge case.

Should factory farming be phased out within ten years?

I shrimp the Louisiana coast, and every summer I watch a dead zone bloom across the water where my father used to trawl. NOAA forecast it at nearly 5,800 square miles in 2024, roughly the size of Connecticut, and the 37-year average sits above 5,200. It is not a mystery what feeds it. Fertilizer and manure wash down the Mississippi from industrial farms across 22 states, algae explodes, and everything on the bottom suffocates. [NOAA via Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2024-06-noaa-average-summer-dead-zone.html) The price of cheap bacon is measured in square miles of ocean where nothing can live. My catch has moved farther out every decade, burning more fuel to find shrimp that used to be at the dock. A ten-year phaseout of factory farming will not fix the Gulf overnight, but it is the first policy I have seen that treats the manure as the industry's problem instead of mine.

Should daylight saving time be abolished permanently?

Standard time is the honest time. Noon under standard time is when the sun is actually highest; daylight time is the one-hour lie we all agreed to tell. [timeanddate.com](https://www.timeanddate.com) If we are finally abolishing the switch, the only defensible choice is the time that matches the sky. Permanent daylight time would mean winter sunrises at 8:45 in some cities, sending kids to school in pitch dark for months. The sleep scientists are right about the mechanism even if you dislike their tone: morning light anchors the circadian clock. Keep the real noon. End the fiction.

Should the United States adopt a universal healthcare system?

The reason the newest cancer drug, the newest surgical robot, the newest mRNA platform comes from America is that our system pays for innovation. The US accounts for a hugely disproportionate share of global medical R&D because companies can earn returns here. Countries with price controls free-ride on American research: they cap what a drug costs while we funded the decade of trials that created it. [OECD](https://www.oecd.org/health/). A government-run system that sets prices by fiat will do what price controls always do: shrink the pipeline. The next Alzheimer's drug or gene therapy will not be developed by a committee optimizing a budget. If you want the cures of 2040, do not strangle the incentives that produce them.

Should location privacy violations trigger automatic independent audits?

Consistency matters. Marriott's order followed breaches affecting more than 344 million customers and imposed [20 years of obligations](https://www.debevoisedatablog.com/2025/01/30/ftcs-consent-order-against-marriott-expectations-for-reasonable-security/), while location-data cases can receive a different mix of remedies. A statute could require an initial audit for every violation, then scale the frequency and duration to severity and repeat conduct.