'Adoption of the Populist Party's ideals would/is beneficial for the United States of America."

Corprate and State Taxesa. My opponent goes off and states how corprate taxes are a bad thing, but this is flawed based on the conclusion is that big corperations were not taxed back then and the corperations only pay 13% of their profits in taxes. Which when you are making millions of dollars isn't much. http://www.forbes.com... opponent goes to argue that this is a bad idea, but she fails to recognize the fact that we use this tax money for tons of things like Medicare, the military, vetrans benefits, agriculture, education, energy, science, transportation, and paying off our great national debt. http://nationalpriorities.org...;These thing are essential for the US economy and the nation as a whole, because what would we do without roads, a military to protect our freedom, food to feed the world, and energy to drive us. We fund education through these tax dollars and it shows that these things are key. Just type in any amount in the last link I provided for you and you can see that the taxes get spread out and our nation needs these things. You see with a corperate tax we can improve our nation as a whole and when we put money into the average American's pocket they can spend money on goods creating a supply and demand, thus creating jobs, so we can see we come a full circle with Corprate Taxes.B. In the late 1800s, the United States had a large number of growing divide between rich and poor. In Andrew Carneigie's Gospal of Wealth, he states that the rich shouldn't keep all of the profit and they should spread around the wealth for all Americans. Bryan showed that the rich can pick up were the poor left off. My opponent claims that we are the most taxed nation in the world, but this statement is flawed! http://www.aei.org... can see here the tax rates for the rich have been growing and thus showing that the rich is paying more. As debated in point a) I showed how these taxes are spread around thus showing you that the rich paying more taxes is overall good for the economy and the average joe. State control of IndustriesA. Railroads My opponent her looks at efficientcy, but what my opponent here is failing to see is that how 'evil' the private industry was and is. The railroads committed Stock Watering, http://www.aei.org... was a pratice where the owner would destroy their company's stock and once it hit a low price, would buy it up and then raise it's value in order to make a profit! This hurt investors and caused people to lose millions of dollars. Railroads also compeeted in rate wars in where a Trust would lower prices to try to undercut another buisness, thus driving worker wages down, and once the other company looses to the trust then the Trust would sky rocket their prices. This would leed to the Pullmen Car Company Strike. http://www.lib.niu.edu... see her Railroads that were uncontroled were terrible on the average joe. B. Communication My opponent is sadly wrong about the US postal service. According to a Brittish Study the US postal service is actually number one in the world. http://money.cnn.com... survay found that the US's to be the best in the world in efficientcy! Another key thing my opponent is not looking at is that if the US potal service hits all areas of the US compared to the private industry which would not include the rual areas which are indeed where most of the Populist live and reside.Direct LegislationMy opponent has dropped this last contention and I would to extend all points here. This Contention is too important to skip over, because it includes things like homerule, popular vote, and now I'll explain one things that I seemed to have left out of last round.a. Term Limits and a RefferndumThey requested that the people surving the government has term limits, because if you serve an extensive amount of time in DC you stop being a citizen of the state your from and start being a citizen of DC and start caring more about what the people in DC want compared to your state. The referndum went with this because people would talk about this, but wouldn't get this done so they state that they would send a patition around and if it had enough signatures then it would get voted upon in the next election and get made into a law if it passed.