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2AC - Budget deficits high now
Trump;s budget destroys US fiscal health and national security. MacGuiness 17
The Trump administration requested defense funding above the limits set in law for the rest of this fiscal year by designating the extra funds as OCO spending. The resulting increased spending still adds to the deficit. It also fails to provide a predictable path for long-term defense planning. Escalating the already unsustainable long-term debt in the name of national security is counterproductive.
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1AR - Extend: “Budget deficits high now”
Deficits inevitable - Trump’s budget doesn’t solve. Lockwood 17
Changes aren’t enough to fix budget woes. The budget signals a desire to make reforms but ignores the primary drivers of the deficit and debt – runaway entitlement programs.
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1AR - Extend: “Budget deficits high now”
US deficit and debt situation getting worse now - historically high. Boccia 17
Publicity held debt is at its highest level as a percentage of GDP since World War II.
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2AC - Spending helps the dollar
Fiscal stimulus and spending BOOSTS the dollar. Domm 17.
Something constructive on the US fiscal front would be a much more powerful tonic for dollar support. A fiscal boost would be a big positive for the dollar.
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2AC - Dollar collapsing now
Dollar collapse coming now. Bruno 17
The Greenback has never managed to reach parity because of the Federal Reserve’s nominal interest-rate increases. Considering political turmoil in Europe the Greenback should be propped up. The dollar had a chance at parity, but it’s slipping away.
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1AR - Extend: Spending helps the dollar
Increased federal spending STRENGTHENS the dollar. Jolly 17
The dollar’s surge came because of Trump’s promises to spend a trillion dollars on infrastructure while cutting taxes at the same time. The dollar broke through to 13-year highs.
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1AR - Extend: Dollar Collapsing Now
Trump and political scandals killing the dollar now. Domm 17
The dollar index is now down to 6.6% from its post-election high and down 0.9% since the election.
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2AC - no dollar impact
Dollar hegemony is resilient. Kritzer 10
Despite its pitfalls, the Dollar was and still is te most stable and really only the viable global reserve currency. The dollar’s widespread acceptance stems from the Us economy’s fundamental strength, which comes from the economy’s size and the flexibility of labor and product markets.
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2AC - No economy impact
Economic decline does not cause war. Drezner 14
During the initial stages of the crisis, analysts asserted that the financial crisis would lead states to increase their use of force. The aggregate data suggest otherwise, however. Interstate violence has declined since the start of financial crisis, as have military expenditures.
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2AC - Global Cooperation Low Now
Trumps kills global cooperation - Korea, Syria, NATO, UN, climate policy. Khor 17
An adverse development is Trump’s intention to downgrade the importance of international and development cooperation. Trump announced his proposed budget with a big cut of 28% agency for international development. The Trump foreign policy approach is dampening the spirit and substance of international cooperation.
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1AR - Extend: No dollar impact
Dollar isn’t key to heg. Gelb 10
The US is less and less able to translate economic strength into influence abroad, even though it will remain for some time the world’s largest economy. Many problems internal to states are beyond all external ministrations. Also US power has been squandered and employed inefficiently. Present US strategy offers too little bang for its buck because there is not enough buck in the strategy.
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1AR - Extend: No dollar impact
No impact to dollar decline – it would cause stable duoploy with the euro. Bergsten 9
The United States and the rest of the world would have an interest in continued globalization so neither has any interest in eliminating the international role of the dollar. Competition is likely to improve economic policies and performance.
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1AR - extend: No economy impact
Best studies prove no war results from economic decline. Brandt and Ulfelder 11
The assumption that countries’ economic growth rates strongly affect their political stability has not been subjected to a great deal of careful empirical analysis, and evidence does not unambiguously support it.
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1AR - Extend: Global Cooperation Low Now
Trump kills human rights and global coop. Murabit 17
The presidency of Trump is awful for civil liberties, human rights and global cooperation.
They say: Debt is immoral
Debt isn’t immoral - this argument makes no logical sense. Klein 11
World War II left America with one of the highest debt burdens in the country’s history. But it would have been much more irresponsible to pass on a world in which the Nazis controlled Europe to our children.
