Proponents tout the bill as a welcome and needed step toward reducing witness intimidation, especially by gang members awaiting trial.

Proponents claim that frequently institutions are forced to operate at higher efficiencies when they are allowed to compete and that any resulting job losses in the public sector would be offset by the increased demand for jobs in the private sector.

Proponents emphasize increased revenue for the state and the tribe, as well as 2000 new jobs for all members of the community, while opponents fear strain on its police and fire services, a major impact on the local water supply, and argue that a 15-story building will permanently change the town's character.

Proponents of shield laws argue that they ensure that news gatherers may do their jobs to their fullest ability and that they help avoid a dichotomy between state laws and journalistic ethics.

Proponents of international trade point to the success of fair trade programs in other industries, where cooperation has led creation of sustainable jobs, and can bring affordable technology in countries where repair and reuse rates are higher.

Proponents cite the environmental, economic, and energy security benefits of clean, renewable energy, while opponents are against any obstruction to the views from oceanfront vacation homes and tourist destinations based in the region.

Proponents also invoke the benefits of direct-marketing when promoting the sale of raw milk.

Proponents of golden parachutes argue that the parachutes provide benefits to stockholders:

Proponents of the continued use of brain fingerprinting in criminal and counterterrorism cases cite the peer-reviewed research on the accuracy of brain fingerprinting in the laboratory and the field, the fact that it has been ruled admissible in court, the vital counterterrorism applications, and the benefits of bringing criminals such as serial killer JB Grinder to justice and freeing innocent convicts such as Terry Harrington.

Proponents argue that the benefits of therapeutic riding by far outweigh the risks.

Proponents promoted the supposed health benefits of iron beds.

Proponents and critics of SRI have debated the claimed benefits, and many questions about it remain unresolved.

Proponents of SRI claim its use increases yield, saves water, reduces production costs, and increases income, and that benefits have been achieved in almost 50 countries.

Proponents argue that the competition spurred by vouchers and education tax credits increases the quality and efficiencies of both eligible private schools and local public schools, as they both must perpetually improve in order to maintain enrollment caused by the competitive nature of dollar voting and the swift accountability that results from increasing consumer sovereignty-allowing individuals to control what product or service they prefer to buy as opposed to a bureaucracy.

Proponents argue that the data generated by the standardized tests act like a ' report card ' for the community, demonstrating how well local schools are performing.

Proponents wanted a local police force and the ability to pass ordinances.

Proponents of the HTS program argued that anthropologists were providing much-needed cultural knowledge about local populations and helping to decrease violence in their areas of operation.

Proponents say that the currency gets residents to shop at local stores.

Proponents of culs-de-sac and gated communities have in turn countered that the reduction in through traffic makes any " stranger " much more recognisable in the closed local environment and thus reduces crime danger.

Proponents of the measure state that it would be necessary for the preservation of those languages and to show respect to the local culture.

Proponents of this effort, which include the local Republican Party, tried and again failed to put the recall on the February 2008 ballot.

Proponents of regionalism say that strengthening a region's governing bodies and political powers within a larger country would promote fiscal responsibility, develop a more rational allocation of the region's resources for the benefit of the local populations, increase the efficient implementation of local plans, raise competitiveness and efficiency levels among the regions and ultimately the whole country, and save taxpayers money.

Proponents of the proposition ultimately used it as a bargaining tool to negotiate an agreement with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California State Legislature on protecting local government revenues.

Proponents of the highway have claimed that it will improve the flow of interregional traffic, relieving traffic congestion on local roads.

Proponents of the landfill plan pointed to its potential for spurring economic development in Kirkland Lake's struggling economy, while opponents pointed to environmental concerns such as the pit's unstable rock walls, which could potentially leach contaminants into the local groundwater supply.

Proponents of this philosophy seek and collaborate with smaller, local supply and service partners.

Proponents include local elected bodies, Lane Transit District, community members and the Eugene Chamber of Commerce.

Proponents of socialist market economic systems argue from a Marxist perspective, stating that a planned socialist economy can only be brought about by first establishing a comprehensive commodity market economy and letting it fully develop until it exhausts its historical stage and gradually transforms itself into a planned economy.

Proponents of reform argue that removal of these laws would be a profit to the economy, citing figures in excess of $ 200 billion.

Proponents of the Chicago school of economics are generally suspicious ( and critical ) of government intervention in the economy, including anti-trust laws and competition policies.

Proponents of these developments argue that they will bolster the city's economy, while critics worry that they will block waterfront views and increase traffic congestion.

Proponents of the Flexible Specialization approach ( also known as the neo-Smithian approach ) to post-Fordism believe that fundamental changes in the international economy, especially in the early 1970s, forced firms to switch from mass production to a new tactic known as Flexible Specialization.

Proponents of this idea argue that it combines the advantages of a market economy with those of socialist economics.

Proponents of tax cuts often claim that savings and investment are essential to the economy, and thus less taxes ( for any and all income brackets ) need not harm any other income bracket.

Proponents of this economic model distinguish it from Market socialism: Market socialists believe that economic planning is unattainable, undesirable or ineffective, and thus view the market as an integral part of socialism, whereas proponents of the socialist market economy view markets as a temporary phase in development of a fully planned economy.

Proponents of the socialist market economy compare it to the New Economic Policy in Soviet Russia that introduced market-oriented reforms while maintaining state-ownership of the ' commanding heights ' of the economy.

Proponents of peace gaming simulations argue that when " civilian " factors which exist in the real world, such as the economy, manufacturing, and trade are brought into play, the simulation becomes not only more realistic but also ceases to be a zero-sum game.

Proponents of a world-scale hydrogen economy argue that hydrogen can be an environmentally cleaner source of energy to end-users, particularly in transportation applications, without release of pollutants ( such as particulate matter ) or carbon dioxide at the point of end use.

Proponents argue that the FTF aligns the U. S. with the rest of the world, according to the original U. S. patent system, and brings more certainty, simplicity and economy to the patent process, all of which allow greater patent participation by startups.

Proponents of decoupling cite transition to an information economy as proof of decoupling.

Proponents of chaos theory argue that it is impossible to make accurate long-term predictions for highly complex systems such as an economy.

Proponents of the term Anglo-Saxon economy state that Anglo-Saxon economies are more " liberal " and free market-oriented than other capitalist economies.