Unemployment is a bigger problem to be dealt with than inflation.

===Condensed Suffering Vs. Dispersed Suffering=== "Now it is true that inflation affects everybody, usually mildly, however unemployment may affect less people but at a much higher cost. In families where members are unemployed all cash flow has ceised [Ceased]." While I am no financial expert, from what I know of macroeconomics, this statement is false. Pro is operating under the faulty assumption that unemployment and inflation have a linear correlation, when in reality, it's anything but linear. Especially when dealing with unemployment fluctuations underneath 10%, a slight reduction, say 1%, in unemployment equates to an over 5% increase in inflation. [1] Moreover, inflation usually has the greatest impact on fixed income families, which make up the lower and middle class. This is because while CEO's and higher class businessmen (With variable incomes) can afford to raise the price on their goods and maintain profit, while people living on fixed incomes feel a steady crunch in their buying power. Inflation is much more devastating on the middle and lower classes then the rich. Additionally, it is really hard to say whether having a minority suffer for the greater good of the majority is a reasonable course of action or not. While my opponent seems to take it for granted that suffering should be dispersed amongst the people, he does not give any reasoning behind his beliefs, making them rather weightless assertions rather than actual arguments. ===Negative Consequences of Inflation Vs. Unemployment=== "I live in Florida where the unemployment rate is almost 12%. That is approximately 1 and 1/2 million people. My main point is that rather then they're money being worth less(they still have money) they're entire mode of income is cut off." Inflation actually attacks a countries ability to compete on an international level. [2] Eventually, being unable to compete globally inevitably results in lost job opportunities, and the reinstatement of unemployment. This means that not only does prioritizing unemployment over inflation result in the eventual relapse of unemployment, you make your country's economy worse off then before. Moreover, inflation is measured in percent increase per year. Allowing 12% inflation instead of twelve percent unemployment means that prices will double within approximately five years (Because of compounded increase). Just to put things into perspective, Pro is proposing to cripple the spending power of the ENTIRE lower-middle class to save a select amount of people. ===Mitigating the Negative Consequences of Unemployment=== Whereas we can use welfare and social security programs to mitigate the negative consequences of unemployment and reduce suffering amongst the unemployed, there is really little we can do to prevent inflation, other than slow down economic growth. ===Conclusion=== Pro bases his entire argument on the assumption that we should disperse suffering amongst the majority for the sake of a minority. However, as Pro does not give proper justification for this, ballot goes neg by default. Thank you. http://www.peoi.org... http://ageconsearch.umn.edu...