You do not need to argue your reasons and, in fact, you are often better off not arguing.
Douglas Carswell, Tory backbench MP for Clacton in Essex, and one of the small group of Better Off Out MPs, argues that the eurozone crisis has destroyed the economic case for EU membership: "Far from joining a prosperous trading bloc", he says, "we shackled ourselves to a corpse.
But if given the chance to renew villages in a sustainable way, rural people would be better off, he argues.
Democrats would have been much better off, Schumer argued, had they focussed first on issues affecting a broader swath of the American electorate — the swath that includes families like the Baileys.
2 3 4 Among other lines of their argument, critics of choice and competition have argued that better off people were better equipped to choose and that the reforms would produce incentives to focus on wealthy people to the detriment of the poor.
Business schools, they argued, would be better off acting more like their professional counterparts, such as medical or law schools, nurturing skilled practitioners as well as frequent publishers.However, business-school professors have an incentive not to change.
In their book "Myths of Rich and Poor: Why We're Better Off Than We Think" (1999), Cox and Alm argued that the poverty statistics overlook the extent to which falling prices have enabled poor families to buy consumer goods that a generation ago were considered luxury items.
Factor in operating profits - minus transfer activity - of $150m, and Mr Jarman argues investors are better off buying shares in Tesco.
Burkeman argues we're better off if we don't "strive too ardently for any single vision of the future".
Some southerners are calling for Bavarian independence from Germany, arguing it would be better off.
