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1 2012-13 Policy Debate Topic Discussion Transportation Infrastructure

2 National Case Distribution

3 What is being debated? National Argument list currently features close to 300 teams Most popular cases are: --National Infrastructure Bank --Port deepening projects --High Speed Rail development

4 What is being debated? --NexGen transportation system --Inland Waterways --Port security --Bering Strait tunnel --Carbon capture & Storage --Short Sea Transportation

5 What about kritiks? Focus is on disadvantaged groups --Race/poverty based --Persons with disabilities --Transportation as a means of control --Persons seen as nomads

6 What about advantage areas? Hegemony National security Foreign relations Climate change Economic impacts

7 Negative Arguments State counterplans Privatization counterplans Spending Disadvantages Trade-off Disadvantages Can you use your affirmative as a negative argument?


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