Counties that choose to do this would reap handsome new revenues, goes the argument.
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Allow it to function freely and without government meddling, goes the argument, and prices are discovered and internalised automatically.
Being part of the UK is required for that recovery, goes the argument.
The more countries they serve, goes the argument, the less concentrated their risks.
Not distracted by investors clamoring for quarterly earnings gains, so goes the argument, its managers can focus on long-term strategy.
Not only might that reduce the frequency of criminal acts, goes the argument, but it may also cut the number of accidental deaths and suicides.
The easy ability to sample new tracks online, goes the argument, may tempt people to buy lots of stuff that they would not otherwise hear about.
Recent events, goes the argument, show that Europe needs a permanent president, as proposed in the Lisbon treaty, which has been on hold since the Irish rejected it in a referendum in June.
It's more than 50 years since the Royal Navy last commissioned a ship from a foreign country, goes the argument, and the first orders will be placed - or so we're told - after the autumn 2014 vote.
Once the spending creates better conditions, so the argument goes, the economy will be better positioned to withstand the spending cuts, tax hikes, and higher interest rates necessary to address the staggering deficits left behind.
Together, the argument goes, the two companies could better direct scarce resources to extract iron, copper, nickel and so on where the most value is to be gained, and do so faster than they could individually.
China may not have as many dollars to invest in U.S. dollar assets, the argument goes, but the U.S. won't need to buy so much anyway.
It benefits the upper and upper-middle classes, the argument goes, by the strict standards it imposes to protect the land: growth control, open space, maintained eco-systems and the preservation of town or village character.
Now ok, the water won't come from Welsh reservoirs - rather from boreholes beneath Birmingham - but, so the argument goes, without the Welsh water, they wouldn't have 30 million litres a day to spare for Anglian.
And, two, they wanted it to have measures -- they wanted it to be filled with measures that had traditionally enjoyed bipartisan support, or the kinds of measures that had -- which I think goes to the whole argument about whether or not this was a political exercise or a legislative exercise.
More competition, the argument goes, could exacerbate the problems of weak banks and insurers, requiring costlier government bail-outs.
Furthermore, as the argument goes, competitors are closing the innovation gap on smartphones.
The West and the Soviet Union managed their nuclear-armed cold war safely enough, so the argument goes, and India and Pakistan can do the same.
So, the argument goes, Labour's natural support suffers from the decline in democratic participation.
But, goes the counter-argument, the very threat that shareholders could nix egregious packages might put downward pressure on rewards that have got out of control.
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Even if a four-ply Scottish sweater feels slightly coarser on the shelf than its French or Italian counterpart, the argument goes, it lasts for decades, arriving at cozy perfection around the time those fancy continental sweaters might start to pill.
Guaranteed issue alone, the argument goes, results in slightly more expensive premiums, which drives healthier individuals out of the risk pool, which in turn further drives up premiums.
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And so the oil companies' argument goes: They pay the Nigerian government and it is the government's responsibility to provide investment, security and pressure on private business.
This survey (which the Pew people have conducted in each presidential cycle since 1996) has provided the premise for a number of news stories raising concerns about the younger generation's information diet: by getting information directly from topical comics, the metaphorical argument goes, they are skipping their spinach and going straight for the pumpkin pie.
Their region, so the European counter-argument goes, is not where the problems are.
Ala carte so that TV customers get to choose channel by channel which ones they want, the typical economist argument goes, has got to be better than the bundling where you mix all the channels together and a person has to make a take-it-or-leave-it decision about the whole bunch.
Those of us born between 1946 and 1964 have been selfish, the argument goes.
If commodities were priced in SDRs, the argument goes, their prices would be less volatile.
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To feed those extra people would take farmland the size of Brazil, the argument goes.
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