Topic Lecture
The federal government budget includes both mandatory spending and this
The GND aff we read in debates on Tuesday and Wednesday is funded via this type of tax
A wealth tax
The affirmative team ought not read climate change impact defense in the aff answers to IRS DA this week because of this
climate change is an aff impact in the 1ac
global warming is an impact in the GND wealth tax aff's climate advantage
The Topicality lecturer Brandon Stras will attend University of Chicago Law School this fall. He has been a debate coach here lately
Will accept: University of Michigan OR Montgomery Bell Academy as answers
Most definitions of BI or UBI suggest it must be periodic, meaning it must be paid like this as opposed to a one-off grant
must be paid at regular intervals
for example, a cash payment each month
In a progressive tax, % of income paid in taxes increases as this increases.
ex. US federal income tax, estate tastes
income
If the rate of global warming is slow, then we can do this, but when warming is fast, we cannot.
adapt and plan
warming adaptation
The neg uniqueness story for the IRS DA says that IRS modernization will do this succeed now, unless the plan were to pass
modernization will succeed and restore IRS credibility now
According to the lecturer, the "gold standard" of evidence in Topicality debates is about reading these
Definitions!
This state in the U.S. has a permanent fund to give its residents up to $2,000 annually as a form of basic income
Alaska
Although extensive metacommentary exists on how to define "basic income" people typically agree basic income is 5 things: periodic, cash payments, individual, universal, and this (also a possible way to run a counterplan)
unconditional
The GND inequality advantage includes an economy impact. This author says that economic decline causes nuclear war and global existential accidents.
Dr. Mathew Maavak 21
Maavak
Maavak 21
The neg IRS DA impact says democratic modelling is a good thing necessary to avert this
great power war
Instead of fixating on author qualifications in Topicality debates, Brandon recommended debaters think about this instead for how to indict opponent evidence
Acceptable answers:
Themes
The text of definitions
This 1960s civil rights leader advocated for a guaranteed basic income
Martin Luther King Jr.
Some possible factors that explain where economic/income inequality comes from include labor characteristics, personal choices, immigration, government policy, and this
market forces (including technology, changing demand patterns, competition for labor)
If the affirmative loses that argument that GND does not reduce carbon emissions enough to reduce all global warming, lab leader Scott is optimistic the aff can still win if it helps cope with this
The worst effects of warming, such as flooding
For example, we can hire people to move sandbags to the beach as part of the jobs guarantee
Some of the affirmative answers to the IRS DA are thumpers, including a debt ceiling thumper and this
tax complexity thumper
In Topicality debates, teams often use the standards of limits and ground. Limits refers to: what affirmatives are excluded? What affirmatives and advantages are unviable? Whereas, ground refers to this
What positions are guaranteed to apply?
What positions are more likely to be viable?
UBI could be paid for through a tax such as a value-added tax, wealth tax, corporate tax, or this
a carbon tax
a tax on carbon
The Gini coefficient was developed by this statistician and sociologist
Corrado Gini
The 2ac non unique card against the recruitment DA says there's already a recruitment crisis now for a few reasons including: women don't want to join the Army because they view it as an inferior employer, recruitment has been trending down since covid started, Army's goal of recruiting 60K recruits is too ambitious, and this
there's good employment opportunities in the civilian community already
In the notes section, the IRS DA file explains: In order to win this DA, the negative has to win that fiscal redistribution requires this (an assumption is that is somewhat controversial)
Taxation
Brandon Stras said the best piece of evidence in the Topicality starter packet file for "Fiscal Distribution must be BOTH taxes AND transfers" is this
Hicks 86
In 1516, Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia, where he introduced the concept of a basic income a way to do this
reduce crime