Mixed economies work better then fully socialist or fully capitalist economies.

I will assert that full capitalism is superior to a mixed economy. ==Refutation== My opponent's objection to capitalism is based on a copyright argument; however, copyrights are not capitalist. They limit private ownership of capital through a governmental threat of force, and are therefore an aspect of a mixed economy. Corporatist regulations prevent optimal resource allocation, as my opponent has pointed out in his second round in his healthcare example. The government giving monopolistic privileges such as the copyright is one of the failures of a mixed economy, that private greed combines with public force and screws the population. My opponent also pretends that government ownership of the industries of security and education prevents their absence during depressions and recessions; however, there is constant demand for such industries. If these industries were funded directly, by their customers, rather than indirectly, by taxation, there would be constant funding. Instead, during the downs of the business cycle, the services of these industries suffer, because their source of revenue is cut. For example, diminishing sales tax revenue in Texas is forcing cuts to the socialist education system [1]. If the education system was instead funded directly by the continuous supply of newborn customers, the quality of education would not drop during recessions. ==Negation== Capitalism is most compatible with human behavior; because humans act individually, the system that grants them the most individual freedom benefits them the most. When left free to pursue one's own happiness through self ownership and private property, the individual maximizes his happiness. Through a system of subjective value exchange, the individual that can find the way to satisfy the most urgent wants and needs of the most people will find himself the most reciprocally rewarded; therefore, capitalism encourages humanity to serve another, to maximize their subjective utility, and to become collectively more satisfied than they would have had they attempted to work as a single organ. Private property results in maximum societal welfare. Any attempt to taint this private property results in inefficiency, because of the rules of human nature. No human takes responsibility for public property. An example would be the public street. Lacking individual ownership, no individual will pick up trash that accumulates there. All public property everywhere has resulted in the problems with capitalism: public air invites private air pollution, for companies can dump their waste costs onto society; public water invites private water pollution, for companies can dump their waste costs onto society; public seas invite overfishing, for companies have no incentive to conserve; public forests invite deforestation, for companies have no incentive to replant; public land invites overgrazing, for there exists no incentive to conserve. The list extends almost indefinitely. The failures attributed to capitalism are simply mismanagement of public property on the part of the state, free rider problems, and tragedies of the commons [2], all of which arise from public property in a capitalist system. Therefore, a mixed economy is inferior to a pure capitalist system. The resolution is negated. Thank you. ==Sources== [1] http://www.kxan.com... [2] http://www.debate.org...