Damien Block - National Debate Coaches Association

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*****1AC***** 3
Gas Tax 1AC 3
Things to Add/Write 27

*****T Stuff***** 28
GT --> TII 28
2AC TI/Invest/Extra 29
W/M: Federal Spending 31
Taxation = TI Investment/Spending 32
GT = TI Invest 34
GT = Fed Financing 35
Plan = Capital Investment 36
Others Prove plan = T 37

*****Inherency/SQ***** 38
SQ Transportation Bill Fails 38
Uniq: No Revenue 39
Uniq: No Funding Now 40
Uniq: Collapse in 2 Yrs 41
Inherency- HTF specific 42
Uniq: Current Bill = Gimmick 44
Uniq: Transpo Bill = $ 45
Link Uniqueness 47
Link Uniqueness 48

*****Solvency***** 49
1AC/2AC Solvency: Laundry 49
2AC Solvency: TI, Laundry 50
2AC Solvency: TI, Laundry 51
Solvency: TI 53
Solvency: Consumer Dependence/Oil 54
Solvency: Consumer Shift 56
Solvency: Price Floor 57
Solvency: Price Signal 58
Solvency: Gas Tax 59
Solvency: Gas Tax Increase key 60
Solvency: Jobs, Stim 61
Solvency: Fed Key 62
Solvency: GT Increase--> Less consumer dependency 63
Solvency: Consumer Dependence 65
Solvency: Consumption 66
Solvency: HTF, Econ, Stim 67
Solvency: Pollution/Warming 68
Solvency: Econ/Warming 71
Solvency: TI, Econ, Oil 73
Solvency: Oil, Warming, Innovation 74
Solvency: Oil/Warming 75
Solvency: Indexed to Inflation, TI 76
Solvency: Generic 77
AT: Fraud/Ineffectiveness 78
AT: Hurts the Poor 79
A2: Economy turn 80
A2: Demand is inelastic 82
A2: 1$ won't solve 83

*****Highway Trust Fund Good***** 84
Jobs/Infra Add-ons 85
Impacts: Econ 86
Key to Growth 86
Highways k Econ 87
Highway k Econ 88
Heg Add-on 90
2AC Competitiveness 90
TI Invest. Key 93

*****Deficits Advantage***** 95
2AC Internal Link 95
Internals: Transportation = Key Test 95
Internals: Plan = First Step 97
Internals: Plan k Revenue 97
1AC/2AC Impact: Econ 99
Impacts: Deficits Kill Econ 102
Impacts: China Scenario 103
Impacts: Deficits Kill Econ 106
Impacts: Deficits Kill Econ 107
Impacts: Deficits Kill Heg 108
Impacts: Deficits Kill Heg 109
Impacts: Deficits Kill Heg 110

*****Renewable Energy***** 112
Internals: Green Leadership k Heg 113
Uniq: Other countries investing 114
Uniq: Oil Guts Invest. 117
Solvency: Plan Key/Incentives Fail 118
Solvency: Price signals Key 120
Solvency: Alternative Energy 121
Solvency: Pollution 122
Solvency: Heg 123
Federal Incentives Good 124
Internals: Key to Competitiveness 127
Internals: Econ/Competitiveness 129
Internals: AE k Jobs 129
Internals: Spill-over 132
Impacts: AE Solves Ext. 133
Impacts: Naval Heg 133

*****Oil Advantage***** 137
1AC Oil Dependence Scenario 137
2AC Oil Add-on 140
Resource Nationalism Scenario 143
Uniq: Peak Coming 145
Uniq: Peak Coming 147
Uniq: Risk High 148
Solvency: Plan Solves Dep 148
Solvency: GT Solves Dep 150
Solvency: GT Solves Dep 151
Solvency: Kills OPEC/key Econ 152
Impacts: Escalation 153
Impacts: Oil Shocks --> Govt Interv 154
Impacts: Spikes-econ downturn 155
Impacts: Dep --> Mideast War 157
Impacts: Dep --> ME Conflict 158
Impacts: Dep --> Terror 159
Impacts: Dep --> Terror 160
Impacts: Dep --> China Ctrbalance 161
Impacts: Dep --> Coll Econ 162
Impacts: Dep --> Collapse Econ & Terror 163
Impacts: Peak Collapses Econ 164
Impacts: Each Day Key 165
Impacts: International Political Capital 167
A2: US not key 168
AFF - AT: Monboit 168
Algae Scenario 168

*****CAFÉ/Energy Policy Adv***** 171
2AC GT key to Auto 171
2AC CAFÉ Coming/Bad 172
Uniq: CAFÉ Coming Now 173
Uniq: CAFÉ Triggers Ptix 173
Uniq: Obama Endorsing CAFÉ 175
Uniq: Recovery Fragile 177
Internals: CAFÉ Kills Auto Industry 177
Internals: CAFÉ Kills Auto 178
Internals: CAFÉ Guts Revenue 178
CAFÉ Increases Congestion 179
CAFÉ Now/Bad 181
Solvency: GT > CAFE 182
Impacts: Auto Industry k Air Power 184
Impacts: Kills the RFS 186
Impacts: RFS Solves Dep 187
2AC Biofuels Scenario 188
AT: CAFÉ Solves 189

*****Add-ons***** 191
2AC Warming Real/Anthro/High-Risk 191
2AC Warming Add-on (GT) 192
2AC Warming Add-on (Congestion) 193
2AC Warming Add-on (Oil Dep) 196
2AC Auto Industry Addon 197
2AC Ethanol Add-on 199
2AC Pollution Add-on 200
2AC Biofuels Add-on (GT) 201
2AC Biofuels Add-on (Price Floor) 203
2AC Terrorism Add-on 204
2AC Russian Adventurism 206
2AC Grid Add-on 208
1AR We Solve the Grid 209
2AC Competitiveness Add-on 209

*****AT: CP's***** 210
AT: Delay CP 210
Plan Solves Fast 211
AT: Devolve CP 212
AT: Devolution CP 213
AT: Tax Oil/Refiners CP 214
AT: PIC out of the Gas Tax 216
2AC States CP 216
1AR: Deficits 218
AT: States CP 218
Fed Price Signal Key 219
AT: Shift the Revenue CP 221
Taxes Good 222
No Winners and Losers 223
AT: Alt Energy CP's 223

*****AT: Disads***** 225

***Politics*** 225
2AC No Link: Political Cover 225
2AC Link Turn 225
No Link-Phase-in 227
No Link-Gradual 228
No Link: Lugar 229
Link Turns: Moderates 230
Link Turn: Confluence 230
1AR Link Turn Outweighs 231
Link Turn: Momentum 232
Link Turns: Automakers 233
Link Turn: Plan Pop 234
Plan Popular: Gas Tax 235
Plan Popular 236
TI + GT = Popular 237
Price Floor Popular 238

***Elections D.A.*** 239
Popular w/Public 239



*****1AC*****
Gas Tax 1AC



Observation One: Topic Education -


First, transportation infrastructure is financed in one of two ways -
through the general fund, or through increased revenue - Stimulus Programs
finance through the general fund while failing to repair the Highway Trust
Fund


ARTBA 2k10
(American Road and Transportation Builders Association to the National
Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform "The Contribution of the
Federal Transportation Investment Programs to Fiscal Responsibility and
Deficit Reduction," pg online @
http://www.fiscalcommission.gov/sites/fiscalcommission.gov/files/documents/A
RTBA.pdf //um-ef)
Transportation Investment and User Financing When Congress created the
National System of Interstate and Defense Highways in 1956, it
considered two options for financing the construction costs-borrow the
money by issuing highway bonds or enact pay-as-you-go taxes on highway
users. After much debate, the second option was chosen. Congress raised
the federal gasoline tax from two cents per gallon to four cents per
gallon and directed the revenues into the newly-created Highway Trust
Fund (HTF). Virtually all federal highway investment since then has been
financed from the HTF. In 1982, Congress added the Mass Transit Account
(MTA) to the HTF. The tax rate on gasoline was increased to 9 cents per
gallon, with revenues from one cent of the five cent increase being
directed into the MTA. Since then, most federal investment in mass
transit has been financed from the Mass Transit Account, while highway
improvements have been funded from the Highway Account (HA).
Subsequently, the federal tax on gasoline has been increased only twice-
in 1990 and 1993-and currently stands are 18.3 cents per gallon. There
is also a 24.3 cent-per-gallon tax on diesel fuel (and equivalent taxes
on other motor fuels) as well as taxes on large trucks, which are also
credited to the HTF. A similar user-fee-funded trust fund finances most
federal investment in the nation's airports and air transportation
system. Through the years, user fee financed trust funds have proven a
remarkably responsible way to finance federal investment in highways,
public transportation and airports. In fact, during most years since its
creation in 1956, the Highway Trust Fund generated balances that helped
mask the size of the unified federal deficit, leading stakeholders to
argue that Congress was violating the trust of highway users by failing
to invest all user fee receipts in highway and transit improvements.
Three factors have had a significant effect on the HTF balance in recent
years: . When Congress enacted the Transportation Equity Act for the
21st Century (TEA-21) in 1998, it transferred $8 billion from the
Highway Trust Fund balance to the General Fund at the start of FY 1999
and provided that interest on the HTF balance would henceforth be
credited to the General Fund-the only trust fund so treated-costing the
HTF almost $11 billion in foregone revenues. In addition, when Congress
enacted motor fuel tax increases in 1990 and 1993, more than $22 billion
of the revenues were deposited in the General Fund despite being taxes
levied on highway users for the purpose of investing in highway and
transit improvements. . Economic downturns in 2001 and 2008-09 had a
depressing effect on highway travel and thus revenues into the HTF, as
did unusually high gasoline and diesel fuel prices in 2008. In addition,
highway construction costs skyrocketed between 2004 and 2009, due to
world-wide increases in the cost of asphalt, cement and steel. Both
effects put immense pressure on HTF revenues. . In 2005, Congress
enacted the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation
Equity Act - A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) which increased federal
investment in highway and transit improvements without increasing user
fees. To accomplish that, Congress funded the federal highway and public
transportation programs at a level where projected outlays through FY
2009 would not only use projected HTF revenues, but would also spend
down much of the fund's existing balance.