Economy Debate Topics for Students — page 23

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• It is all matter of who thinks they own what. I believe in fair taxing, and the efficient use of government money, and you can bet I believe in human rights, but I do not believe in hatred of all who own money. The popular magazine, Time, recently featured an article on the…
• Actually I was arguing for the efficient use of tax, but personal freedoms. You may call it libertarianism. I do believe in corporations to rule the economy, but not able to corrupt the government, leaving a society competent but not corrupt. I do think as well that in the…

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• First, tax money is wasted on paying civil servants to deal with university bureaucracy. Second, when the state funds all university education for free, funding will be allocated to unprofitable courses. Thirdly a moral hazard problem emerges among such students attending for…
• First, tax money is wasted on paying civil servants to deal with university bureaucracy. Second, when the state funds all university education for free, funding will be allocated to unprofitable courses. Thirdly a moral hazard problem emerges among such students attending for…

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• Thank you for your time, thoughts, and considerations. For my last round I will carve out a well-defined thought that I feel cannot not be refuted, and if it is, is simply attempting to put the blind-fold over the eyes so as to not see the issue. My opponent draws a mental…
• I would first like to take this moment to compliment my opponent on a great debate thus far. Points have been made clearly and concisely. And there has been great discourse and discussion thus far. Top compliments to you and although we do not agree, many people could not get…

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• Summary We know McDonald's current cost structure. Raising the minimum wage at McDonald's would raise costs by 17% to 20%. That's $1.14 on a typical meal. Customers, mainly the poor and middle class, would pay more and they would tend to eat out less often. The fast food…
• 1. Labor is now 25% to 35% of fast food costs Con did not contest my specific evidence that labor costs are 25% to 35% of costs in the fast food industry, that a $15 minimum would increase costs by 17% to 20%, Con cites Sen Warren's figure that doubling the minimum at…

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• Thanks to my opponent. The 1st point that Pro failed to understand in the forums, because existing theory on monopolies states that a monopoly is only formed when product demand is ELASTIC, was my contention is exactly the opposite of this in natural resource markets.The…

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• Why a flat tax is simpler:
• Why closing tax loopholes is good:

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• Again, inflation can lead to unemployment if it is not managed correctly. Plus, all the effects you listed above could also occur with inflation. If you doubt the problems with inflation, just look at the 1970s, and the effects of the staggering inflation were overt.…
• Inflation, by very definition, leads to lower buying power. Lower buying power leads to decreased demand, and decreased demand leads to many different things: slower economic growth, slower RGDP growth, unemployment (yes, inflation can cause unemployment), etc. Furthermore,…

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• When we speak of wealth inequality, it is absolutely necessary we address the severity of wealth inequality, and the repercussions of this disparity , before we resign ourselves to this idea that deliberate inaction is the best recourse. Credit Suisse, a financial services…
• My opponent is allowed to present their opening statements first.

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• Banning loss leaders protects consumers from predatory marketing tactics.
• Banning loss leaders would help suppliers

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• Seeing as how this wasnt really a debate and more of a conversation, I ask voters to simply make this a tie
• Its a combination of a couple things but I think most people can agree that the reason the government is spending so much and causing the debt is so high can be because of the following: 1) Massive spending on the new War on Terror combined with the untimely worldwide…

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• Neoliberal foreign policy
• Unbalanced decision making

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• Unfortunately, due to incumbent, pressing real life work, I'm going to have to drop out of the Adopt-A-Noob tournament. Although I have time to finish this round, I'm not going to have much with A Levels now, to finish the rest of the debate. I thought I'd have enough time when…
• I am for the statement that 'A just society should ensure all workers receive a minimum living wage. ' Prelude: Different countries and areas have different numerical values for a minimum wage. In this debate, we will not be arguing for a specific minimum wage value, as can be…

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• 'Working does help depression you forget to feel sorry for your self, and get on whit your life would you call that opportunity or just using that for not getting up in the morning.' It does help depression, however when you're so deep in depression, you actually need help, the…
• This is more of an opinion gathered from just being aware. But since you're asking me, I won't use sites. It seems like people, after a while... kind of give up, they no longer try and seize the world and make it theirs. Instead they try and get through the next day, usually…

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• You say that so many law students have to get money by working jobs to pay rent. My view on that is this. For people who are going through college and working hard they should be rewarded for this. That is why I think it would be a good idea for the government to support people…
• Your whole argument was based around helping the people on minimum wage. Of course raising minimum wage would help those people. I somewhat agree with you that minimum wage should be increased. For younger people I believe there should be a different minimum wage than there is…

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• I. What is a VAT?The VAT, short for "value added tax", is a modern day consumption levy on manufacturers. The government will factor in all the goods or items that went into making a product, and in the UK, will take 20%, 5%, or 0%, of the cost of all those goods. The method…
• I. Economic RecoveryMy opponents contention is unclear here. The UK is growing, and it noticeable, but we both agree it is slow. Yet economic trends have shown UK stimuli spending to be very effective lately. Most of the UK is behind on its budgets, and we have to ask ourselves…

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• should i concede? i conced.... no wait. no, i can't do it.
• what you gonnawhat you gonna do airmax? i'm going to reiterate my last points and win this debate.

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• I am disappointed that you chosen not to post an argument twice in a row now, but nevertheless I will still finish out the debate. In conclusion I believe that inflation is a major problem that stands in the way of raising the minimum wage, raising the minimum wage past $8.50…
• (. http://reason.com...) The link which I have posted above contains some great examples of what raising the minimum wage would do to the current economy of The United States. This article claims that raising the minimum wage to president Obama's proposal of $10.10 per hour…

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• Thank you nickjack and all voters once again for successful debate. The opposing team said that Wal-Mart has same prices then target and other prices, and dosen't have any health care benefits. First of all health care dosen't usually come with any store workers but only high…
• Walmart does not depend on the U. S. The U. S depends on Walmart. Walmart is good for the U. S because it has cheap prices which is good for the U. S economy. That is why the U. S economy needs it. It lets poor people buy from Walmart creating better bussiness for Walmart and…

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• This is my first debate and it has been very fun. " Of all places to keep our money, it is NOT with the government. It is with the economy. " If not with the government, then where should it be kept. In the economy? Though it sounds like a great plan, it is not a good long term…
• Insane spending. Everyone would leap on this chance to buy something for a little cheaper than it would be on any other day. " The actual amount they are saving is not even worth the gas that it would take to drive their. Sales taxes are a very small part of what a person…

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• This is my first debate on this site and I hope I can do well on it. First off, I'd like to give the basic definitions of both Capitalism and Socialism to prevent any bias and have the two of us start on an equal ground. Capitalism is defined as an economic system which…
• To anyone here who wants to have a friendly debate with about whether or not Capitalism can benefit the economy of a economically-crippled nation, I can open to whoever accepts. Stage 1: Accceptance Stage 2: Providing your arugments Stage 3: Providing your arguments Stage 4:…

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• Ok... it seems there was no coherence to that argument whatsoever. I suppose I'll just continue and offer a rebuttal to a possible and common argument an opponent may make. An opponent may say that capitalism can exist in a stateless society because the capitalists could hire…
• The reason I believe capitalism cannot exist without the state is because the state is the one which enforces private property rights. If you got rid of the state, there would be no one to protect your private property, and capitalism would then cease to exist as people and…

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• 1. The minimum wage helps the economy because when workers have more money to spend, they have more money to be consumers. Consumers HELP the economy. In that sense, the minimum wage helps buissinesses big and small. 2. Yes WW2 helped create jobs, but my above point which…
• 1. "The only people who get harmed are the people at the bottom. " - Wrong. The people who get harmed are the employers, even if they cut back on jobs. If the survival of a buissiness depends on the exploitation of workers, to bad. Buissinesses big or small shouldn't be paying…

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• The motion: THW class poverty as a higher priority than the environment. Before I introduce this debate, please note that this is my first time involving myself in the debates on this website. However, I am looking for someone partially experienced in debating to offer a good…

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• You're right, I'll be arguing for the abolishment of both federal & state minimum wage laws. Here is a summary of my arguments: 1. A law should be abolished if it either fails to accomplish its primary objectives, or works against its primary objectives. 2. The primary…
• Thanks in advance to whomever accepts this debate!

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• Thank you for posting your last argument. My opponent has ignored my second argument, named "cheating the system". In a debate, you can not just pick and choice what you want to responded to. My Opponent has also stated that tickets don't come at a cheaper price if you buy them…
• Thank you for posting your next argument. 1. "Most ticket scalpers resell tickets at the day right before the concert when all the tickets that the companies are selling are sold out which does not affect/harm the companies at all." The reason it harms the companies is they do…

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• That is not the case for all the LEDCs in the world, once they have taken loans they are in a kind of threat for the time their being in dept. There are many countries that once take a large amount of loans from a country are then unable to pay it back and meanwhile they also…
• yes, the provision of loans should be finished because these loans are a major reason for countries to stay underdeveloped. the countries should be encouraged to help themselves to rise and get a place in the world market that will help them become truly independent. Once a…

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• .. As the pro side it falls on me to show why the economy is more important debt when comes to federal budget so in order to do this I will: 1. Talk about the history of our national debt and why the actual number doesn't really matter 2. Talk about how spending cuts in a not…

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• Yes, they won't make much money off of it whether free or played, but it will help them get bigger and they will make more money. Money is not the case. Being heard is the case. So downloading music does help them. It gives then a start. I knew it's not the best start but hey…
• downloading music helps undiscovered artists be discovered. It gives undiscovered artists a chance for their music to be heard. Not every upcoming artist is going to be found on YouTube like Justin. People find new artists this way,and hopefully they will show people and it…

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• Removing Tax Cuts for the Rich Promotes Equality.
• Removing Tax Cuts Would Reduce the Deficit

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• I'm glad to have faced such a serious challenger! Now to my summary. In this debate I raised five points. First, I proposed that New Zealand indexes tax brackets to the inflation rate. My opponent was so impressed by this point that even he conceded it was "reasonable", with no…
• I recognise that I am at a significant advantage in this debate, so I appreciate my opponent's courage for taking me on! Because of various time constraints I'm going to post my rounds fairly quickly. Let me now move on to rebuttal.1. Monetary ReformLast round, my opponent gave…

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• Time: For sake of argument, I will concede that time is actually important.It would be interesting to note that the minimum wage for some sub-groups actually makes it harder for them. Teenagers often enter the minimum wage workforce to gain experience. However, if they are not…
• Neoclassical predictions do not entail a specific time frame. If the wages are above the market equilibrium, those in worth less than the equilibrium will not be hired. If the equilibrium changes, as most things do in the market, the minimum wage in 20 years may have no effect.…

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• Introducing a cap on working hours would reduce unemployment.
• There must be a maximum amount of performance that people are capable of, given rest and reward. To work people too long is to waste their potential.

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• Ambition: Con overstates the disincentive that an extra 10% tax per dollar earned will have. Current tax brackets tax at the margin. So once someone reaches the top 1% of earners ($380,000+) only then will they be taxed at an additional 10% per dollar earned. This is a marginal…
• Increased GDPGDP = C + I + G + (X - M) C = consumption spending and accounts for 70% of our economic growth [1]. Thus, the more consumption spending there is in the economy, the higher GDP will be. GDP is the measure of the value of all goods + services produced in the economy…

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• Thanks Subutai. Resolution: "Keynesian economics is better than Austrian economics for the US economy""Better" per round 1: "By better I mean that Keynesian policies would lead to more economic output than Austrian policies would."Shared BOP.My opponent concedes that Keynesian…
• Resolution: "Keynesian economics is better than Austrian economics for the US economy""Better" (per opening round): "By better I mean that Keynesian policies would lead to more economic output than Austrian policies would."Important stipulation: For the US economy.Shared Burden…

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• No disrespect, But like I said earlier, There is a gender earnings gap, Not a wage gap. Men on general have earned more, Women haven't. I realize how poor my word choice was when I created this, And I'm sorry, But the show must go on.
• Since the 1963 Equal Pay act, It has been illegal to pay women less. The reason why modern women aren't making as much money is because of the life choices each gender make. Men are more likely to ask for promotions(1), They are more likely to succeed negotiations in…

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• Using the definition of welfare as "the health, happiness, and fortunes of a persons or group," corporate welfare often succeeds in preventing prevalent industries from failing. Since failure in major industries and business often result in loss of jobs and wage, government…
• Blaming workers and unions for the failure of a company is appalling. Arguing that companies abuse corporate welfare and that unions abuse corporations insists companies hold no liability. The UAW started at a time where the auto industry was playing the same political game…

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• Thanks to Con to have accepted and placed his arguments. I appreciate his valuable argts about economic value & the way we are implying,speculating & hedging currency and making one currency compete with another in open market to determine the forex value,etc. By all this he…
• We all know that S$ has no intrinsic value. It is just a paper.But what is in question is whether it has any real value or are we imagining that it has value even when the perceptible value also started to lose its usefulness to quantification.As long as we dont quantify…

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• The citizens shouldn't suffer because of what the government has signed them up for.
• The loans are accruing interest quicker than they can be paid off

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• Rebuttals will be in Round 3 for fairness and so we both are allowed equal time to rebuttal. So I will make my points.Welfare is bad for the economy because it is the governement trying to help people. But them trying to help people is hurting the economy because it starts to…
• Thank you for the debate. I accept the challenging of trying to prove that welfare is bad for the economy. I wish you good luck and I am excited to hear what you have to say.

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• PROS CASE8 million workers live in poverty because the minimum wage is too low. (2) Only 62% of minimum wage workers are under 25, and only 25 of these workers are enrolled in school. (3)(A) The current minimum wage does not account for inflationThe average annual inflation…
• Forfeitting more than one round constitutes total loss. PLEASE don't accept if you're going to forfeit.

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• your water and bucket analogy has a good point, in that we could be focusing on the most direct source of the revenue, the income of the tax payers. but taxing income doesn't have the added advantage of not disincentivising productivity by taxing labor. and, if a rich person…
• it wouldn't have to be done at the federal level. it could just replace state and local income taxes. but even if it were federal, and regardless of where its done, why couldn't it balance the scales between the wealthy and non wealthy just as much as income tax? there's no…

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• You express that their is a likelihood of the Rail Project failing. Instead of allowing for other states to also experience failure, which would bolster not hurt the case fossil fuel companies make, states should instead direct their attention to Elon Musk's hyperloop idea. It…
• The California High Speed Rail is a proposal that has already convinced my opponent of its many advantages. Despite the many proposed adavantages offered, my opponent has failed to provide any evidence for the feasibility of such a plan. I do not blame my opponent for this…

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• Collective Bargaining is Needed to Voice Opinion
• Collective Bargaining Leads to an Overpaid Public Sector

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• Well I WAS going to debate but you didn't say that I should argue first. Plus being c@cky isn't going to prove your point
• First of all, I was invited which I didn't really want to do so. And second, I accepted it because I wanted you to argue first not me, that's usually how that goes. So debate yourself.

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• i am a computer science student nowadays the field of IT not rapidly growing. but the the idle growth has been. so what's is the future of IT. will it useful for the after those who will choose this field?

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• Ok, so any of you who are reading this are probably wondering how, after the first sentence of my opponent's last argument, he suddenly developed perfect grammar and syntax. I was too. So I copied and pasted a line of his speech into google. "Though most sweatshops stop short…
• "It's true about what you said kids under the age of 10 are forced to work but there's also adults who are forced as well. But the young workers who are always forced will have no time for education or schooling-is this equitable? " Ok, I never said that children were forced to…

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• Quotas encourage women to pursue education and professional job positions
• Gender equality is based on fundamental human rights endorsed by the EU which needs to be addressed

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• So to make of the fact that about 10 percent of the wage gap can be attributed to women having different work histories than men, or in other words, being much more likely to take time off or quit altogether to care for children? Some women will always prefer reducing their…
• A new fad this year is to fight for what you believe in. One which is particularly important is equality. However we do not listen to what we preach. We say that we all have equal rights, equal opportunities, but now women are being discriminated because of their gender. Our…

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• Just realised ive not given enough rounds for this debate, sorry. For one, i try not to make money easily if its not really deserved. For example i do not invest in shares as thats helping companies get bigger for doing, well not something that is worth millions or billions,…
• I understand where you're coming from, by definition capitalism does mean that, however my point is that it is based purely on money. There could be a more moral system which doesn't mean businesses can grow big enough to i.e. employ child labour and get away with it because…

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• We are talking about Australia and we might become poor too!! what are your 3 main points??
• Foreign aid is a luxury we can"t afford.