Resolved: The United States Federal Government should privatize Social Security

Contention 1: Role of the governmentSince a lot of these arguments mesh it'll seem like I'm jumping around a bit here, so please try and stick with me on this. My opponent starts by stating that this argument could be used against ALL taxation, but yet that statement is entirely flawed as Kant argued that the government must be able to enforce the Kingdom of Ends. This would includes things like fire fighters, police force, military, etc. .. [1] When also cross applied my opponent ignores that this argument is backed up by the Libertarian distributive principle of which shows that only Negative Rights should be enforced. For the sole purpose my opponent doesn't refute the Libertarian principle on face value, but attacks it from a different angle which I'll get to in a minute. We can continue to see that since my opponent has dropped the Negative Rights portion of this we can see that this is one of the key areas of which the government is only able to preform in. Which would eliminate my opponent's stance here concidering that Social Security would be concidered a Postive Right and Not a Negative Right. My opponent also ignores that I brought up the Social Contract and that some freedoms, like my freedom to punish you, should be given up to the federal government to ensure that it is enforced. Does this means that we should give up our "Right to Choose" how we want to spend our money or economics to the government to ensure that we would actually get less then we could've gotten if we had that freedom? The answer is a resonding no. My opponent is confused as to why a private company is better yet once again he ignores my own arguments as I sited Kant in R2 of which he pointed out that the Imperfect Duties should not be carried out by the government. Thus leaves only two possibilities that are it should be illegal or that it should be carried out by a private company. Now my opponent and I can agree that this is important, but we disagree who should do this issue and since it is not a Perfect Duty or a Negative right it should not be enforced by the Federal government. Now I also realize that the Public's health is a key part, but it should not be the government's job to ensure people are heatlhy as it is their choice. That's like the US impossing a fat tax on fast food items to ensure that people eat healthier. (but that's a different debate) I never stated that he was claiming that the federal government was creating rights, but yet it was an argument that I was making to the regards of the federal government creating rights through this program and it should not be preforming this duty due to it being an attrocity upon our freedoms. We can see that rights are natural and not made by the government and my opponent is doing the opposite even with his counter-plan. My opponent claims that I never clairified as to how it prevented people from creating business, but I have stated this several times throughout this debate. I showed that the government is restricting our choices to a government option in the status quo and in my opponent's plan. While under my plan I am opening up the options and we can see that these options will finially allow those into the field and increase our "right to choose. "Contention 2(3): Privatization solvesMy opponent argues that I am not allowing the right to choose by closing off the federal option, but I have already shown how this is restrictive by not allowing competition and how the government option is still horrendous, both under the status quo and my opponent's plan. Indeed stocks will change constantly, but yet my opponent assumes that by doing this alternative that I am purposing that we will run everyone off a cliff like lemmings. This is incorrect as even though stocks fluctuate we can still see that stocks continue to clime upwards and constant shifting of these funds will cause an economic take-off which was dropped by my opponent. [2] Also mind you that people have control of their own personal accounts which is something that doesn't occur under my opponent's plan and also mind you that this isn't the only plan that can occur under privatization since the people have the ability to choose how their money is spent/saved. [3] Continuing my opponent is under selling the market with the 3-5% growth rate while the actual growth of the stock market has been much higher than that around 10-15% Compound Anual Growth. [4]Now onto my opponent's case. Contention 1: Harming RetireesMy opponent's entire argumentation relies on his incorrect statistic of a small growht, but this is completely false due to the fact that I have already shown otherwise making this a great way of investment. Again my opponent spins on the fact of my math by going off of the market flucutations while I have shown tha tin 2013 the markets were up 32% to counter the crash in 2008. Not to mention that 5 out of the last 6 years have well been over 10% meaning that the 10% that I gave was a conservative estimate. [4] My opponent even brings up the new dividend tax, but yet that is almost a non factor as it would 20% at the highest, pending how good of a profit you make from the dividend, so it would chop off only a small amount from the 3% dividend and we would still see a high profit margin for our senior citizens. [5] So from this point alone we can still see a high return regardless of the taxation. Contention 2: PrivatizationMy opponent want to talk solvency, but yet all I have to do here in this debate is prove that my plan is better than my opponents and not to mention that so far I have already shown a great deal of solvency. My opponent claims that I haven't shown how the public option is desasterous, but mind you that I spent an entire option on attacking the public option, status quo, my opponent's plan, and the restriction on the Freedom of Choice. My opponent's claim on this is just purposterous. My opponent claims that I had dropped how we would solve the price, but I have already addressed that by showing a transfer from the Social Security budget and we would not even need to use all of it. Concidering that it takes 26% of the budget such a task would be a simple phase out over the span of 10 years as I have already addressed. When the New York Times reporter visited a small town in Chile he found that, (1)Retire in 10 years, at age 62, with an annual pension of $55,000. That would be more than triple the $18,000 I can expect from Social Security at that age. (2)Retire at age 65 with an annual pension of $70,000. That would be almost triple the $25,000 pension promised by Social Security starting a year later, at age 66. (3)Retire at age 65 with an annual pension of $53,000 and a one-time cash payment of $223,000. " [6] Investors Business Daily had also found that in Chile in the past 30 years that the annual rate of return is 9% compared to the 1-2% here in the US. [7] We can already see that this sucess has been drowned out by criticisms that doesn't speak to the amount of sucess reached here. We can see that it was coastly, but that was paid off and not to mention that the short term pain turned into massive long term gains ranging from massive returns on pensions to doubling and even trippling of the nation's growth rate. [8]I ran out of characters in the previous round so I was unable to refute these for the most part and cannot due so since it would be unethical to bring up new arguments in my finial round. All I can do is repeat that I have already shown that the UK's crookedness that occured there was on their own terms meaning that it was corruption of the brokers. Not to mention that there are other ways than the stock market as I have brought up before already showing that this does not refute nor link to my case completely. Contention 3: Counter PlanI'm running out of characters so I'll try to address what I can.9% would have to be there in order to include other costs such as Medicare and Medicade. My opponent has also advocated in previous rounds that an increase of 0.7% is needed, but it is greatly impossible to do such a thing as I have shown in my previous round in order to meet the Social Security deadline under the status quo. Anything under that would actually lead to falling short of the status quo which my opponent has already conceded to as being the defunct system. Thus his plan is actually worse than the status quo. [9]My opponent claims that using the money in the Social Security accounts is beneficial for other programs and though that is true Social Security runs out of excess by next year and even if his plan is enforced it will only extend the problems for the long run. We cannot think of a band-aid here we need an actual solution which is something I have provided. We can see that with current interest on US debts ballooning the Social Security funds will be soaked up more and more and before too long we'll wake up without a Social Security program since the government sucked it dry. [10]My opponent uses smoke and mirrors when he stated that you get to keep your Social Security when you die. He forgot to mention that it depends on your earning. What level and amount are these earnings? We might not know since the SSA website doesn't specifiy, but we can see that this harms a great deal of people as I have already shown in previous rounds that many people are excluded from SS like legal immigrants and many poor people are striken when this SS doesn't trickle down to them because they "excede the earnings amount. " I have also shown how my opponent's plan doesn't solve for the Bridge-payment system which is broken showing that within years this plan will be destroyed and broken just like the status quo, but my plan solves compared to my opponent's and we receive better and more benefits under mine. I thank you and please vote Pro. Sources in the comments section.