Final Round

1AC

Significance:
Trade between Mexico is important
Creates numerous jobs
Bridges have exceeded their 50 year plan and are dangerous

Harms:
Trucking rely on bridges
Higher freight rates increases time lost in trade

Inheritance:
Highway transportation won't allocate funding bridges must be maintained
or replaced
Three inherent barriers:
o Attitudinal barrier
o Structural barrier not allocating money needed
o Existential barrier

Plan: increase bridge construction to better NAFTA through the FIP


Solvency:
Bridge-in-a-backpack is the most efficient option
Can be carried in a backpack and reduces traffic

Advantage:
Reduces traffic
Increases quality of life in rural area
Provides job opportunities

1NCX

AF: Bridges are within the US.

Cost of plan?
Cant give figures

32 billion dollars allocated towards bridges and right now goes towards maintaining
highways.

Profit margins cant be seen. 3/5s of bridges are used in the trade with Mexico.
(substantial T)

1NC

Capitalism K:
1. Fiat is illusory
2. Pre-FIAT
3. Capitalism is on the verge of collapse
4. AFF uses a capitalistic means
5. War
6. Striking the plan is striking capitalism
Create more crossings to create more trade and increasing the idea of capitalism
Capitalism is environmentally harmful to the country

Politics DA
Mexico has other plans to make their economy more stable

Topicality on engagement
Not topical because not bettering relations and skewing debate by not
directly dealing with Mexico
Goes against the resolution
No grounds to the neg

1ACX

Read the resolution with

Did you define its?
No









Bridge







2AC

Capitalism K:
Needs to provide an alternative for the K which the neg did not
If they dont provide an alternative, we must look to capitalism
Why capitalism it is good
o Rise and fall of preeminent power is good
o Theory of trade expectations

Politics DA:


Engagement topicality:
Improves bilateral relation between US and Mexico because US has a more
stable infrastructure system

On-case:
Didnt attack anything
Extend how important trucks are
o Trucks carry 3/5 of the NAFTA trades
o 59% of the 59 billion dollars in imports
o Trucks carried 66% of the freight trade between Mexico and US
o Increase trade will happen

2NCX




















2NC

Dropping Political DA

Capitalism K
Need to bring a better solution however we just need to reject capitalism to
better society let us stop capitalism before continuing on with capitalistic
means within society
The economic downfall is a direct result of capitalism
Private industries in the capitalistic world do not care about factors such as
human values and environmental values
Capitalism lacks the tool to assess the value of life

Topicality
Taking US money and spending on US and private companies in the US and
Mexico are making money, not the MXFG

Dont know how many bridges to be repaired
Dont know how much the BBP will cost or how much money will go into it

Are new bridges being built? Never brought that up

2ACX






















1NR

Capitalism K


No specifics in the cost and timeframe



1AR

Political DA was kicked and hindered the education of the debate round

Value of life

Opponents want to leave the bridges intact and deficient and more people will die
than our plan

Not leaving any carbon foot-print

BBP was not attacking


2NR

The definition for T was not the same; T still stands without removing grounds of
the affirmation

They dont care about what they do to the environment because they have an
anthropocentric view of the world

2 AR

Cap K
The backpack crap does not hurt the environment
Won off case arguments
Topical
Acknowledge