31.   Creating such a massive ethanol market would combine with ethanol tax subsidies to create a corporate welfare package of historic proportions, opponents argue.

32.   Death penalty opponents have argued that the option of life without parole would offer juries assurance that a murderer would not be released.

33.   Democratic opponents argued that this would mean a wholesale shift of power from the Capitol to the White House.

34.   Democratic opponents have argued that the amendment would bring about major reductions in federal social programs and state aid.

35.   Death penalty opponents frequently argue that capital punishment is racist, meted out disproportionately to blacks, especially blacks who kill whites.

36.   EMU opponents argue that the austere fiscal and monetary policy it requires from members will keep their economies in low gear for years.

37.   Finally, opponents might argue that the Constitution should not lightly be tinkered with.

38.   Gambling opponents argue that video gambling machines are just electronic slot machines, and are also prohibited.

39.   Hardcore death penalty opponents argue that the odds of someone innocent being executed are clearly too great.

40.   He said that some opponents of reparations argue that blacks have already been compensated through affirmative-action programs, antipoverty programs and race-based scholarships.