CDL packet
Inequality makes the American economy uniquely fragile and unequal. UBI prevents recession by creating an economy that is equal and resilient to economic shocks.
INHERENCY - UBI
It’s an effective solution that rapidly and justly transforms the economy.
Micke Ahola 22, Green New Deal Rising, 12/9/22, “Why we need green jobs for everyone,”
SOLVENCY - GREEN FJG
States can successfully manage single payer systems---previous examples failed because they were added onto the existing federal structure
SOLVENCY - 50 STATES - SINGLE PAYER
Political capture ensures that a _____ would cannibalize the entire private sector.
LINK - ECON DA - JOBS GUARANTEE
Drones crush deterrence---turns case AND nuclear war.
IMPACT - COURTS CP
State budgets are not an issue. The counterplan fiats “fiscal redistribution” which means States will raise new taxes to fund the counterplan.
And, revenues are up!
AT: SOLVENCY DEFICIT - 50 STATES CP
Upending federalism makes managing the electric grid impossible.
INTERNAL LINK - FEDERALISM DA
History proves economic decline leads to austerity pressures which overwhelm countries threatening war, and actually promotes peace.
IMPACT DEFENSE - ECONOMY ADVANTAGE
Local governments don’t have the capacity to fund or expertise necessary to implement a sufficient green new deal.
SOLVENCY DEFICIT - 50 STATES CP
INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE-ACTOR **** is a voting issue---it’s impossible to rebut ‘pretend everyone’s an angel.’
AFF doesn’t increase exploitation, it empowers them via unions and incentivizes sustainability
CAP K - FIAT AND NO LINK
The plan is an illegitimate application of the Constitution.
LINK - FEDERALISM DA
‘Jobs guarantee’ means the federal government pays and states administer the program
TOPICALITY - JOBS GUARANTEE
Top-down welfare reform forestalls revolution. Only building transnational solidarity can challenge capitalism’s unjust distribution of wealth
LINK - CAP K
New progressive tax schemes overstretch the ***
A carbon tax is a hot administrative mess.
Progressive taxes trigger political backlash directed at the ***
LINK - IRS TRADEOFF DA
The affirmative plan text must which version of the ***** *** **** they support, or outline the specific provisions they include. They don’t
There’s no definition of a ***, and multiple mutually exclusive versions, with none having actual substance---
T - VAGUENESS/ASPEC - GND
The aff is an elitist democracy from above. The alternative’s politics of self-emanicpation is the only meaningful political movement.
LINK - CAP K
Republicans will never agree to a UBI without concessions. They will demand a complete destruction of the welfare state in return for voting for the plan.
HORSE TRADING CASE TURN - UBI
Their interpretation is arbitrary. It reduces advocacy to a 4 second sentence which trains them to not defend the rest of the 1AC. We impact turned all the justifications. If those are rejected, there’s no reason to affirm and you can vote on presumption.
FRAMEWORK - INTERP - CAP K
Deficit spending and smart usage of MMT solves without taxation.
SOLVENCY - TAXES PIC
Buck passing---breaking *** requires acting alone. The perm lets jurists dodge the question by masking the CP as deference to Congressional or Executive wishes.
AT: PERM DO BOTH - COURTS CP
UBI is not redistributive because it’s given to everyone.
TOPICALITY - VIOLATION - UBI
**** ** ****
It’s either severance or intrinsic, which is a voter for fairness.
OR, it links:
Links come first. Our defense of framework proves the AFF’s deficient political imaginary does have material impacts both on our ability to accurately theorize political economy and the types of solutions we gravitate towards. Challenging the logic of neoliberalism is essential.
AT: PERM DO BOTH - CAP K
An economic crisis is good. Degrowth now is the only way to avoid invisible climate and environmental thresholds that cause extinction
DEDEV - CASE TURN
State and federal taxes are filed separately. IRS doesn’t process them.
NET BENEFIT - LINK TO IRS DA - 50 STATES CP
Power operates through strategies of communication management like demands for
fairness –
FRAMEWORK - AT: FAIRNESS