The Wild, Wild West of “Expanding” Social Security: Winning Against “Shoehorn” Social Security Affs12/18/2023 Author: Matt Liu, University of Wyoming Director of Debate
Since the summer we’ve known that people were going to interpret “expanding” social security in pretty unlimiting ways. For the most part, we’ve got a small an awesome topic that requires the affirmative to make a giant change to the economy, most often through either a federal jobs guarantee or establishing a basic income. Fewer teams have ventured into the social security area (except when talking just about expanding SSI to the territories), but many of those that have do so in ways that fundamentally change what social security is. We saw this during camp season, when affs were written to “expand” social security by making it include universal health insurance. This past weekend, in the finals of the Holiday Classic, I judged an aff that expanded social security to include a “Federal Indian Health Insurance Program.” The team that read this is taking advantage of the fact that "expand social security" could mean anything, and they’re shoehorning their very not-social-security idea into social security by calling it an expansion. You can expand social security to be universal healthcare, to be health insurance for natives, etc etc ad infinitum. You can expand social security to have it include monthly snack boxes from around the world, if you want. How do you beat all the potential affs this strategy opens up? Read the complete article below the fold.
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