T

Interpretation: The United States federal government should substantially

increase its economic engagement toward Cuba, Mexico or Venezuela.
Violation the plan means the USFG does not increase ITS investment toward
Mexico. The plan text just says The United States federal government should
substantially increase investment
Its is possessive - Belonging to or associated with that means the plan can
also not be from the US, but from other sources
Oxford Dictionary 10 (Of, http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/its?view=uk)
Pronunciation:/ts/
possessive determiner
belonging to or associated with a thing previously mentioned or easily identified:turn the camera on its side
he chose the area for its atmosphere
Voting Issue:
1 Grammar - it outweighs --- it determines meaning, making it a pre-requisite
to predictable ground and limits and, without it, debate is impossible
Allen 93 (Robert, Editor and Director The Chambers Dictionary, Does Grammar Matter?)
Grammar matters , then, because it is the accepted way of using language, whatever ones exact
interpretation of the term. Incorrect grammar hampers communication, which is the whole purpose of
language. The grammar of standard English matters because it is a codification of the way using English that
most people will find acceptable.
2 Limits they could literally get their funding source from anywhere (private
sector, foreign nation FDI, subsidies from international institutions, charity
from the public, etc). That makes research impossible and kills fairness.
3 the 1AC abuses this the solvency evidence is just about private
investment. Plan solvency would mean they fiat private sector or international
investment.
4 - infinitely regressive ignoring one word in the resolution justifies ignoring
others this creates a slippery slope which always makes the AFF a moving
target and makes being NEG impossible.
5 US investment is key to stable links dealing with US action like politics,
tradeoff, spending, etc. These arguments help education.
6 Careful plan writing the plan is the center point of the debate. They had
infinite prep to write the 1AC plan text. Careful plan writing incentivizes
research on various terms and their implications with the resolution.
6 This is a voting issue, and is not a throwaway argument. Hold the AFF to a
high threshold.