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Payroll Tax Cut DA

A. Payroll tax cut extension will pass, but negotiations are key

AP 2/1 (“Payroll tax negotiations off to slow start,” http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/01/payroll-tax-negotiations-off-to-slow-start/)

The 2-percentage-point cut in the […] House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

B. Link –

Republicans massively opposed to Yemen aid over fear it’s run by terrorists, the plan re-invigorates partisanship

Ran Dagoni, Washington, “The US House Foreign Affairs Committee slashed foreign aid for the Palestinians, Egypt, Lebanon, and Yemen”, July 23, 2011, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28667.htm

July 23, 2011 "Globes" -- The US […] terror and the effectiveness of civilian programs.

C. Failure kills the economy, turns aff

Marr and Highsmith 11. [Chuck, Director of Federal Tax Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities., Brian, joined the Center’s Federal Fiscal Policy division in January 2011 as a research assistant.  Prior to joining the Center, Highsmith had interned at the National […] part of a larger set of economic measures.

EU CP

Heidegger K

Technology has co-opted democracy’s once open center, destroying freedom and seeking to place us in an entirely secured, calculated existence.

Dennis J. Schmidt 2008 (“Who Counts? On Democracy, Power, and the Incalculable,” Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 38, 228–243) Schmidt is a professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.

Incomplete and impossible though it may be, the […] of life under the regime of technology.

Insecurity is an inevitable condition of existence—the drive for perfect security turns life into a standing reserve that necessitates endless warfare.

Mitchell 5 [Andrew J. Mitchell, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University, "Heidegger and Terrorism," Research in Phenomenology, Volume 35, Number 1, 2005 , pp. 181-218]

There can be no security. If being is […] that would be nationally distinct from another.

The affs technological and calculative solutions inevitably reproduce the ecological catastrophes that kill billions. This discourse of management creates an eclipse of being and the view of earth as standing reserve to be disposed of. Vote neg to break the confines of technological thought in an act of doing nothing.

Ladelle McWhorter. Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northeast Missouri State University. “Guilt as Management Technology: A Call to Heideggerian Reflection.” Heidegger and the Earth: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. 1992. pp. 1-3

Thinking today must concern itself with the earth[…] occurring together of revealing and concealing.