Economy Debate Topics for Students — page 17

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• I should have NEVER allowed a 13 year old to debate me. Of course I get a forfeit!
• Personal bankruptcy was designed to relieve a person of unsecured debt. Credit cards are unsecured debt because there is no collateral used to secure the loan.Most people are brought up to believe that not paying back a loan is "stealing". That's not the case with credit cards…

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• If people have no job inflation doesnt matter. Can't afford anything."US image". The US is not a middle school student. We should look out for our own best interests, our image be damned.Equal rights is about US citizens and ppl who live here. It doesn't require us to treat…
• 1. Inflation isnt a problem if people are making >$. Inflation can be tiny but if all jobs r overseas they cant make $ & the low inflation rate does no good. If we ban trade w/China > jobs will b in the US so ppl will have > chances 2 make >$ 2. Trade alters the economy for…

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• Rebuttal:1:The subsidies caused US crops to be cheaper than Brazilian ones (see Brazil vs. USA, in the WTO in 2012). This caused Brazil to suffer. Protectionism promotes suffering. Also, FYI, a devalued currency makes exports more competitive, not less. This is common…
• I will now rebut these arguments:" 1. Free trade causes the flooding of exports which turns countries to protectionism methods " This is not a coherent sentence. " The United States has had problems in the past with free trade, dealing mainly with Latin American countries. In…

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• This is my first debate so please bear with me. The resolution is that income inequality is an essential feature of a free society. I am arguing for it. Definitions:Income inequality: disparities in the distribution of economic resources among individuals in a society. Free…
• It's refreshing to be able to debate these topics without the usual rancor and ad hominem attacks. The resolution is that income inequality is an essential feature of a free society. Con does not disagree, as he writes: "We understand that we live in a free and capitalistic…

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• The Rebate is not justified
• Giving up the rebate would mean better relations with the Europe Union

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• Hi, Thanks for accepting. Regarding your aside: 1) Next time I will back up my arguments in an earlier stage. 2) The reference to my blog has been made, as I have made a short summary of my earlier 'debates'. re. I, how to finance paying earlier 1) sell excess stock & machinery…
• Hi, http://pay8910.wordpress.com... in economic downturn, cash is short. A first reaction is to pay our bills a few days later. I must admit, we also did it. At the moment we are all waiting for each other to take the first step and start paying our bills on time again. Let us…

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• Unfortunately, I am a student so my responses may be a bit brief in the future. Hopefully not. I would like to be in proponency for some rather simple reasons. First, the American public has the right of knowing where exactly this money is going, after all, it is their money.…
• More specifically, Congress shall enact legislation requiring that the Federal Reserve Board shall, as a matter of law, fully disclose all recipients of federal monies and the exact amount of those monies, whether the funding is received directly from the Fed or indirectly…

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• .. .. . extend arguments.
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• Looking forward to the last round!Rebuttal" Even if the business does this in an effort to manufacture larger quantities of their product , they will have further costs as they will have to now accommodate for the extra packages. the pieces of the packages that they think can…
• Rebuttal" Firstly, the costs demanded and gained by the CRS are towering. "I basically addressed with my cost savings point. I agree that for a business to practice good CSR, the costs maybe be more expensive immediately. However, in the longer-run, businesses become more…

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• Actually, outsourcing still facilitates this switch from a manufacturing to service economy. I admit service outsourcing exists in the US, yet this debate forces us to look at it on a holistic scale.The amount of jobs insourced increased by 82% while those outsourced increased…
• Rbtl to C1} Outsourcing has actually led to a holistic increase in wages. My opponent's source remarks that wages in the manufacturing sector in the US have decreased. According to Holger G�org and Ingo Geishecker (University of Nottingham), outsourcing has increased service…

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• Okay, starting with the definition war. .. I am unsure what the official rules are for this website when it comes to definitions, and I know that different types of debates have different rules. .. I will let the voters decide if letting Ayn Rand define Capitalism is…
• Before I build my own case back up and refute theirs, I'd like to clear up the definition confusion. It is perfectly acceptable to offer definitions given by individuals, especially those with good ethos. Ayn Rand is very knowledgeable about capitalism and her branch…

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• The west does not know best
• Too many strings

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• Stamp for his rebuttals and would like to address each of the three points he raised in turn, as follows: Firstly, the primary objective of strikes is not to cause harm or inconvenience to customers, although this is often unavoidable, rather they aim to hit employers where it…
• Scabs, or "strike-breakers" as these perfidious parasites prefer to call themselves, are treacherous employees who cross official union picket lines and continue to work during strikes. In so doing, scabs dilute the impact of the industrial action, thus making it is easier for…

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• (a) Sweatshops Don't Cause Harm In places with the worst conditions, sweatshops can be rather terrible, but still better than death. If they don't want that, they are free to not. The sweatshop can't be causing the harm because the result would be worse without it. If you need…
• Contention 1: It improves lives Sweatshops don't cause harm. They provide better job options than the average job in these third-world countries [1]. They are also voluntary contracts between the employer and the employee. Nobody is forcing them to take these jobs. Now, the…

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• I agree to those definitions. This is my first debate and am new myself looking forward to your arguments. Definitions sound very clear.
• Every top has its bottom and if we are going to have a minimum wage we ought to have a maximum wage. If there is no maximum it leaves the question "Is it okay for one person to obtain all the capital in the world. Surely that can't happen so a maximum must exist we just refuse…

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• We have the power to help those countries rise up. We don't have to jump to 15.00 an hour warehouse jobs for china and mexico. But we could raise the payment which would make us even more competitive for laborers in other countries. Regardless of if said country excepts it or…
• Of course right now they are allowed to pay anything they'd like but we are significantly more powerful than Mexico and many larger companies could afford to pay more. Yes American wages, as in the range of wages. If they pay more in mex ico, it could prompt mexican companies…

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• Work is for people who have no lives outside of it, no hobbies, no interests, no bigger dreams. Unfortunately most people need to eat and have shelter and all the other basic necessities of life so they have to be slaves to their jobs. How many people actually enjoy their jobs,…
• For thousands of years work has always been performed by slaves or overachievers that just love to go to work because they have nothing else in their lives, no hobbies, no interests so work is the only thing they know. Work is a redundant task that your boss doesn't want to do…

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• People who aren't grateful should be taken to a country where people aren't as well off as us, stripped of their possessions and forced to live off whatever they can scrape together. Then we'll see whether they still think that society doesn't look after people. In the end,…
• Capitalism is the only system that truly represents the achievements of the individual. When it comes down to it, if you work hard and play by society's rules, you will prosper. And before you say, 'Why should we play by society's rules?', ...remember, every one of us has a…

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• This debate asserts that US law, specifically Title 15 USC, prevents the unemployed from getting employment. The relevant portion of the applicable Statute concerns Investigative Consumer Reports. Title 15 USC goes by the colloquial "Fair Debt Collection Practices Act". The…
• "employers already had the right to perform background credit checks on job applicants before anything in Title 15 was passed." The above quote was that which my opponent attempted to support with his pointing out the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In 2000, the year in question, he…

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• If I would place this debate under a IMAGE, I would show a Image of a " pair of loaded dice, " because I feel that the Illinois Lottery isn't a game of chance but just another way of exacting money for the government from the working class citizens or "retribution, " Another…
• The Illinois lottery is a game ran by the political hierarchy who's sole purpose is to drain money from the working poor and to provide money for them and their well connected friends One has to ask themselves if there ever was a game of chance, So-called, Where the adds…

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• The order will be off-case, side debate, and voting issues. Off-Case He first claims that I never "hinted to" the fact that the resolution is general rather than broad in previous rounds, so it is fair for him to interpret the resolution as he likes. There are two problems with…
• Unfortunately, the negative has attempted to dejustify my case with a case turn, so most of this debate is going to devolve into a theory battle. I will start with the off-case theory shells and then briefly defend my case. Theory (Off-Case) Shell 1:Negative interpretation of…

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• First of all, I think that the voters are smart enough to see by when I referred to taxes, I was talking about a tax that was specifically aimed at tobacco products. Unlike you, you are not smart enough to see that that was a simple typo and you are trying to make me look like…
• Thank you for participating in this debate. Opponent: There is no legitimate reason why tobacco should be completely exempt from the taxation that is levied on all other goods and services. I take it that you are referring to sales tax. Well, tobacco products are actually taxed…

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• Money as an incentive: In a RBE money's "implicit value" does not apply. 1. Part of true human incentive is our curiosity. This has been true ever since we were kids. Kids constantly want to explore and learn things without being offered $$$; Heck they don't even know or use…
• I will disprove the "unrefuted arguments" which Con claims:1."money is an incentive…While it's nice to claim that solving problems is the only incentive people need to be productive, that is simply not true for the majority of the population."Con's example of the X Prize…

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• I will say only one thing vote on who made the better argument and not who you agree with (Ragnar Rahl).
• "If a company were to gain a monopoly, competition would still exist and still be legal, anybody could come in so long as the monopoly slipped up" If this quote were true you would be correct in assuming hands off economics does work, however, I believe this is quite untrue.…

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• To make arguments easier to follow, I will use the same system as my opponent - Lack of govt. funds + The NRST is well researched. The sales tax would be about 13%. This would raise the cost of goods but the average America pay 43% in income taxes, this is far less money for…
• - A national sales tax discourages consumption, leading to a conservation of resources. - The removal of an income tax encourages saving and investing, which is the key to job growth. - Individuals would have an extra incentive to work hard and earn income, leading to a far…

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• communism:"a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs."Since the economic reform of china in 1978, it has not been even…
• The 2008 study ends up being irrelevant. This is because for businesses to do well, they want to minimize costs and maximize profits. So when businesses themselves do well it doesn't mean it is good for the market or people working there. We don't want the businesses to do too…

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• First of all we were not supposed to go onto this aspect for too long, I will rebut but anything further will go toward a separate debate; First, unions are rare in the United States, and the few that exist are seldom get regarded by their employers. Yes the government didn"t,…
• Ok, so we abandoned the gold standard topic and switched completely to the Federal Reserve, I will quickly and efficiently slam your argument out of the debate so we can return to the gold standard subject, this does in fact tie in to what we were talking about, though I don't…

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• The federal reserve destroyed the economy, not helped it. 1. Capitalists made and designed the bill, congress just mindlessly sighted it. 2. It's kindergarten economics, common sense, easily verifiable, you have fingers I'm not going to site something for you to say it's not…
• 1. The federal reserve act was proposed by a group of capitalists. 2. The Fed issued a surplus of money, inflation, more dollars are needed to equal stock, people think it will still rise, they buy into it to sell it later for more, bubble, crash, depression. 3. No it's not. 4.…

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• It's ok. Hopefully we can debate in the future on minimum wage.
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• So, any time we think something must be done about a particular problem necessarily means that we will make bad decisions? How else is change accomplished if not through the conviction that something must be done to fix the problem? This is a fallacious appeal to authority on…
• I'm glad we at least agree that social security has serious issues. It's always good to have common ground upon which to debate. I disagree that privatization has a shaky track record. It is government programs such as social security that have a shaky track record. Our entire…

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• 1. National security issue. First off I would like to note that our deficit and the national debt aren't exactly the same thing. A government doesn't normally want to be in a deficit, but it is when the economy is down in order to save it. Cutting the military budget is part of…
• I will start off by stating some common problems people believe about national debt.1. $16 Trillion is an insane amount of cash. When talking about national debt people will often cite that $16 trillion dollars is too much debt, because of how mind-boggiling large a number like…

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• Governments of resource-rich nations should impose high taxes on mining and extraction.
• Sustained Overexploitation Leads to Depletion

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• My opponent is clearly a gentleman and has accepted that one's weight is largely within one's own control. In view of this, I am willing, as a sportsman, to accept that, nevertheless, certain individuals are more liable to gain weight than others, even given the same diet and…
• I am indebted to my opponent for his gracious rebuttal of my assertion that all passengers should pay their fair share for 'plane tickets. His first argument was that some overweight people are fat, not because they eat too much and do too little exercise but that they are…

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• Firstly, the closing statement "Thus, my power is superior to yours in all situations." is untrue. You just stated that there is a situation in which we are equally profitable and yet you then say that your power is superior to mine in ALL situations... Self-contradiction at…
• I counter this on the very premise that it only works if you get your power before mine. We are discussing which the most profitable superpower is. Not which would win in a battle. If,you died and no longer could control my mind or if at any time under your control, I happened…

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• Hello Devin. Good luck in the debate. I don't know that I can necessarily agree with you. At first I figured it was a no brainer, how could taxes be considered stealing on the governments party. However, after thinking about it for a moment I have come to the conclusion that I…

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• I am for the belief that Crowdfunding is the best way to begin a startup. Once a person against this accepts, the debate will begin. Thanks!

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• Rebuttals The technology is only available to the majority of people (in the developed world anyway) as a result of government intervention. In all of the grown-up countries, there are systems of healthcare that socialise this technology, thus making it available to the masses.…
• Laissez Faire Capitalism is the equivalent of getting a thousand dogs in a room and throwing meat in. The stronger dogs overpower the weaker dogs, killing or wounding them, and get all the meat for themselves, while the weaker dogs go hungry. In fact, this metaphor is too…

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• THAT RUSSIA IS A SOCIALIST STATE First of all, if Russia has a free market and private ownership of property then it's capitalist, it cannot be a capitalist nation, fitting all of the definitions of capitalism, but not really be capitalist. It makes no rational sense, if my…
• FACT CHECK My opponent seems to have been asleep for the past 28 years or so, because he said in his response: "Russia, one of the most powerful nations on the planet, follow socialism. It has a reasonably powerful economy, a powerful military, and its citizens enjoy the…

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• I forfeit this round.
• Thanks for accepting! Here are a few key points I will be putting out: Mexico is already killing us when it comes to economy lately, due to labor cost. Norway, Sweden and Denmark, who consistently top the lists of happiest places to live, don"t have a standard minimum. When you…

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• I'm just going to not post an argument and give my opponent a chance to respond to the last argument.
• thanks for the great debate so far 1. The issue with the tax increase is that our government has many sources to acquire funds. Right now the government's main source of income is borrowing. Also according to the Keynesian theory of economics government spending increases…

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• This is a short response to your argument. The faults brought forth in your argument are not false, but they are not sufficient evidence that Communism is bad. The examples you used were from the Soviet Union and China while they were under "Communist" regimes. But that is not…
• To begin, let me define what the communist ideology is really all about. Communism is a political ideology that encompasses Social and Economic systems, property is to be owned by the classless society and not by any one singular individual, resulting in a working population…

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• The IRS has actually given another and more recent statement on the flat tax than what my opponent has provided you. The IRS has provided what they call the Army-Shelby Flat Tax Rate at that of 17%. Once again I remind you that this debate is about the flat tax system not a…
• I'll begin on my case.Contention 1: Flat Tax does everything a tax reform needs to do.1. The first main thing is reduction of tax rates, but it is nowhere close to most of my opponent's inccorect math. We can firstly observe that there are two main tax rates out there. That of…

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• Here's how this will work. I'm a liberal and therefore I want to balance the budget with revenue increases. Conservatives want spending cuts. Therefore, as the resident liberal, I will be proposing spending cuts each round, while Con -- who should be a conservative -- will be…

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• Instead of arguing individual points, I will now attempt to make a closing statement and hopefully this is proper netiquette in online debates. If I am misunderstanding or misusing the debating norms, please accept my apologies. My opponent has put forth three arguments in…
• 1.1.Unfortunately Con does not seem to understand the scientific theory well enough to use it in an argument. First he claims that I have the burden of proof to show scientific evidence but does not deem to say what scientific evidence and for what he requires them. He is free…

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• Capitalism creates many of our social problems. Competition creates lots of damage. For firms, This can mean engaging in criminal activities like money laundering and collusion. The term "dog eat dog" capitalism refers to the fact that when there is too much competition, One…
• I am seeing that you like many other people are focusing on the short term detrimental effects of communism. It is the same behaviour that makes later year draft picks in the NFL not as valuable as earlier year draft picks. This kind of behaviour can be very detrimental. I am…

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• I apologize for reposting my intro. DDO is wierd, and it will be near impossible recovering from this. A progressive minimum wage scale ties the worker's financial reward, partially or in whole, directly to the performance of their employer as a whole. So, what your saying is…
• Alright, this is an entirely new proposal based off of several already proposed wage reforms to the minimum. With that said, I'll try my best to explain it this round.Basically, they are left wing laws, that decide the wage of a company based on their....1. Employees2.…

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• This is how I feel about political philosophy at this point. Serious study of analytic philosophy has turned me into a horrible cynic after only three weeks :-PResolved: There should be a higher tax rate on millionaires.Argument:1. It would be funny if a higher tax rate were…
• IntroductionI am glad that Con has accepted my argument as generally correct. He asserts that he can make a small adjustment to the premisses of my argument and it will prove his conclusion. He then offers several reasons why the argument fails. For this round I will…

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• I'm glad you bring up the point of billionaires and politicians. Politicians are the legal public view and puppets of billionaires. Billionaires own politicians, that is why laws and tax shelters and decisions made in politics are at the request of billionaires. Politicians…
• Those are some excellent points and I do agree with you partially, but motivation, greed and decisions in life are all based on money. Money is a token but it's also the driving force behind power. You get power by getting rich with money. Perfect example, any celebrity, their…

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• In that case I hereby conclude this rather uneventful an disappointing debate. Centralised planning is not the most optimal mode of economic development. It worships bigness for the sake of bigness. It creates a sham progress where exaggerated progress are caused by the…
• I must say central planning also infringes upon personal freedom. The Communist planners, in need to control the flow of labour and capital, as well as the whole economy, must direct every single activity of the citizens. Citizens of these centralised states are essentially…

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• Well, this Tax increase would add onto previous taxes, thus providing a psychologically induced thought if it being more expensive, causing consumers to divert there money into other sources of food. And, also, many companies will still give company health insurance, meaning…
• It would raise the prices of fast food, making it less obtainable. And yes, it wouldn't affect it negatively because the consumers wouldn't change whether to eat it or not. And also, obesity problems would make doctors have more customers, producing more dollars to the…