2008-2009 High School Policy Debate Resolution

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase alternative energy incentives in the United States

MDL Core Files

Welcome mighty debaters of the Milwaukee Debate League! Here are some of the arguments you will need to get you started!

Novice (Blue Division) Files

• The Wind PTC affirmative and negative

• The Brownfields affirmative and negative

• The Natural Gas Disadvantage affirmative and negative

• The Spending Disadvantage

Junior Varsity (Gold Division) Files

• Anything from the Wind PTC packet (except, obviously, the Elections Disadvantage)

• Anything from the Large, November Brownfields packet

Varsity (Golden Eagle Division) Files

• No restrictions – can run anything from the new evidence packet, as well as their outside research

At the MDL, we encourage our debaters to read, research and review outside materials, to encourage better education and fantastic debates! Here are some other sites that will help you on this year’s topic.

Visit these sites for background information on United States energy policy:

The National Debate Coaches Association Open Evidence Project:

http://openev.debatecoaches.org/files/category/arguments-policy

“Heat,” a PBS Documentary on Global Warming:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/

The University of Michigan Documents Center: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/debate08.html

The Global Debate Web Site:

http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/2008-2009-usa-high-school-policy-debate.html

Debate Central:

http://www.debate-central.org/research/

National Forensics League:

http://www.nflonline.org/Main/HomePage

The Policy Debate Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_debate

Visit:

The National Debate Project:

http://www.nationaldebateproject.org/

The National Association for Urban Debate Leagues:

http://urbandebate.org/