Taxes are the best way to lower the national debt

Burden of Proof 1) The PRO must prove that the national debt is an issue. Not only that is existent but also that this impacts the public. 2) National debt must be proven to be lowered to a point where it helps the public. If the PRO proves that it lowers the debt by 1 dollar you are not going to vote for them. They have to prove that the money they save helps people, and lowing the national debt will help people. Anyone can make claims but they must prove the claims have impacts on you and me. Contention One: The national debt has no impact. One big issue about debt is people believe that it creates a national security situation. This is simple not true. Every single country in the world has debt. This makes the impact of the US's debt minuscule. When a country accumulates debt they sell it off to other countries in-order to insure economic prosperity. Because all countries have debt they must then sell it off to other countries which in-turn sell their debt to them. This creates a interdependence between the 2. Other countries shave more debt than the United States. This just further strengthens the economic interdependence that exists between all countries not just the US. For example Japan debt is 228% of their GDP. This proves 2 things 1) That a country can survive with a huge percentage of debt. Japan is one of the most prospers economy in the world. The Heritage foundation ranks Japans economy 25 in the world. This means that the US is not at risk due to their debt. 2) Other countries have more debt then the United States. This is important because it proves that there is more debt from other countries than that of the United States. Remember that there is no there is no that from debt because all countries have debt. b) No country owns enough to make any real impact. China is the largest own of USA debt but we see that this only amounts to 900 billion dollars. No this may seem like a lot but compared to the total debt of 17 trillion dollars this is nothing. This means that there are no threats from outside manipulation on US foreign policy or diplomacy. Also remember countries will not recall all their money back at once. Remember the interdependence that exists between all countries. If China recalled all debt this would cause a global scare and have all countries require debt from not only china but also its business partners. Contention Two: There are several other ways to lower debt a) Cut government spending One of the most efficient ways to low debt is lower government spending. the US spends over 1 trillion dollars a year on our military alone. If we were to use even 1% of this we could eliminate some of our debt. Look at the F-45 project it has run 1.5 trillion dollars over budget. 1.5 trillion dollars that could be spent on eliminating the debt are helping the people of the US but it was spent developing a plane that is not planed to be finished in the next 10 years and still has over 1000 design flaws. This is the first method to eliminating debt. I gave one example i which we could save trillions of dollars. this shows the key is not punishing the people with taxes but cutting spending. b) Oil reserves The United States owns untapped oil reserves worth 128 trillion dollars. This is by far more than enough to pay for the United States debt. Oil reserves due prove to be a very sure solution to the growing debt that the US has. c) Precocious metals On top of all the oil the united states owns almost 442 billion dollars in untapped gold. This is important because gold price fluctuate very little and can be give as a hard form of currency. I think that we can clearly see that the clear and more efficient way to tackle the United States debt. Remember the tax payers are the ones paying the taxes when we have trillions of dollar in untapped oil and wasteful reject trashing and throwing away the public taxes. Contention Three: Taxes harm the individual. The point of taxes are to help the public. This could be paving roads and building schools. The government made the national debt. This was because of irrational funding and extravagant journeys that had no impact on the public and general hurt the people. Taxes are meant to help the public. the government has a responsibility they can not simply pass this off or the people if they do not want to deal with the problem themselves. Contention Four: Increase spending does not decrease debt Increase government spending due to increase taxes does not help reduce the debt. The heritage explains that because the government spends does not mean that this will help the national debt and the people. Taxes are going to be spent not buy back the debt but moreover to spend on program aimed at decreasing the debt. this is simply will not work.