The USFG should substantially increase social services for persons living in poverty

1NC Here goes nothing... Fiat isn't real -------------------------- A) FIAT IS ILLUSORY Nothing happens when you vote aff. The advantages aren't real. B) VOTE NEG on presumption. C) VOTE NEG to end role confusion and see who you are. A-Spec -------------------------- A) Interpretation: The affirmative must specify the agent of their plan. USFG doesn't suffice. B) Violation: The affirmative doesn't specify past USFG. C) Reasons to prefer: a) Strategy Skew: I loose links for agent specific CP's, DA's, and K's. Proves abuse. b) Real World: Policy debate is meant to prepare us for the real world of policy making. Not specifying the agent kills this education. D)Voter for in round abuse and education. Topicality - Poverty -------------------------- SNAPS funds families up to 160% of the poverty line (Lubrano '09) Coercion K -------------------------- Links: 1) Taxation is coercive (DiLorenzo '90) 2) USING THE GOVERNMENT TO PASS PLAN WILL SPREAD COERCION AND VIOLENCE. THE MAJORITY OF ENSLAVEMENT AND MURDER IN HISTORY COMES FROM GOVERNMENTAL CONTROL (Rothbard '85) Impacts: Values: 1) Coercion causes loss of morals and values (Raz '86) 2) Government coercion takes away values and morals (Mack '95) Liberty: 1) Coercion steals liberty (Porter '79) 2) Liberty above coercion is the most important argument (Foley '71) 3) All people have the right to liberty (Younkins '00) 4) Government coercion takes away civil rights (Yates '95) Freedom: 1) Coercion threatens out freedom (DiLorenzo '90) 2) Coercion takes away individual freedom (Vaxzonyi '97) 3) Non-coercion gives freedom (Daskal) 4) Any form of coercion takes away freedom (Youkins '00) 5) COERCION IS SLAVERY AND DESTROYS THE INDIVIDUAL. (Witte '98) Constitutionality: 1) COERCION IS DISMANTALING THE CONSTITUTION (Porter '79) Constitutionality Spill-over: 1) All it will take is one more display of non-Constitutional power to create a government with no limits. (Browne '00) 2) We must follow the Constitution to check back government power. (Browne '00) Development: 1) COERCION LIMITS PROGRESS (Heller) 2) Liberty solves poverty (McDonald) Oppresses Minorities: 1) GOVERNMENT COERCION HURTS MINORITIES (Yates '95) Coercive government is the root of all problems: 1) THE GOVERNMENT IS THE ROOT OF ALL PROBLEMS IN OUR SOCIETY. (Rothbard '85) De-Dev Disad -------------------------- 1) Uniqueness U.S. economy is heading towards another decline. Opdyke and Simon, 03 (The Wall Street Journal) "Some of the latest economic reports seem to hint that the U.S. economy is slipping into recession. Factory orders have declined, employment has shrunk recently and the consensus view of economists is that the nation's gross domestic product grew in last year's fourth quarter at a scant 0.5% annual rate, substantially slower than expectations. Meanwhile, the stock market, recoiling from the weak economic news and the growing anxiety over war with Iraq, has relinquished all it's early gains. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 140 points Monday, closing below the 8,000 mark for the first time this year." 2) Link In the 1AC my opponent read a card that says his plan improves the economy. 3) Impacts Economic growth leads to war. Trainer, 02 (professor at South Wales, "If you want affluence, prepare for war," Democracy and Nature) "War is an inevitable result of the struggle between economies for expansion. Domestic growth is a strong determinant of national expansion and this results in competition between nations and war. World Wars 1 and 2 can be seen as being about empirical grabbing. Germany, Italy, and Japan sought to expand their territory and resource access, but Britain already held much of the world within its empire, which it had previously fought wars to take. Finite resources in a world of expanding populations and increasing per capita demands create a situation ripe for international violence. Expansion is a prime source of conflict. So long as the dynamics of differential growth remain unmanaged, processes will carry major powers into war. The point being made can be put in terms of security. One way to seek security is to develop greater capacity to repel attack. In the case of nations this means large expenditure of money, resources, and effort on military preparedness. However there is a much better strategy, and this is to live in ways that do not oblige you to take more than your fair share and therefore that you do not give anyone any motive to attack you, but this is not possible unless there is global economic justice. If a few insist on levels of affluence, industrialization, and economic growth that are totally impossible for all to achieve, then they must remain heavily armed and their security will require readiness to use their arms to defend their unjust privileges. In other words, if we want affluence we must prepare for war. Global peace is not possible without global justice, and that is not possible unless rich countries move to ‘The Simpler Way.'"