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_ Plan picks winners and losers – this undercuts discoveries in efficiency and productivity – only the free market can solve  

Carden, professor of economics at Rhodes College, and Hammock, Nashville-based economist, 10 [Art & Mike, Nuclear Energy Should Be Subsidized?, June, http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/it-just-aint-so/nuclear-energy-should-be-subsidized/]

In a March 5 Los Angeles Times op-ed, ...Competition forces the answers on them.

_ Each invasion of freedom must be rejected

Petro, professor of law at Wake Forest, ‘74
Sylvester, TOLEDO LAW REVIEW, Spring, p. 480.

However, one may still insist...emphatically identified and resisted with undying spirit.

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Text: The United States Federal Government should eliminate all of its financial incentives for energy production.  

Observation I – Not topical – the counterplan doesn’t increase incentives
Observation II - Net-Benefits – The counterplan solves without linking to coercion, politics, or the case turns
Observation III – Solvency
Only the counterplan solves

O'Keefe, CEO at the George C. Marshall Institute, ‘12 William, History Shows Subsidies are Wasteful, 3-12, http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/03/should-government-subsidize-en.php

It’s dumbfounding that the ...swear off the practice.

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Wind Link REM from China key to wind turbines
Cho, staff blogger at The Earth Institute at Columbia University, 9-20-12 Renee, Rare earth metals: Will we have enough? http://phys.org/news/2012-09-rare-earth-metals.html

China currently supplies 97 percent...1990 to 97 percent in 2011.

Nuclear Link REM key to nuclear production

Rare Element Resources Ltd, 12 “Rare-Earth Elements,” http://www.rareelementresources.com/s/Uses.asp

Other industrial uses include...potential atomic fuel source.

Tech innovations and demand increases cause price spikes.
Epstein 12 Nicholas Epstein, Chicago Policy Review, Medium Rare: What’s Cooking in the Rare Earth Element Market? Evaluating Rare Earth Element Availability: A case with Revolutionary Demand From Clean Technologies Elisa Alonso, Andrew M. Sherman, Timothy J. Wallington, Mark P. Everson, Frank R. Field, Richard Roth, and Randolph E. Kirchain Environmental Science and Technology. 2012.Jul 12th, 2012 http://chicagopolicyreview.org/2012/07/12/medium-rare-whats-cooking-in-the-rare-earth-element-market/

REE supplies are vulnerable ...and deters additional innovation.

Causes China to cut off rare earth supplies which takes out solar production and causes China war.
Cohen 7 David Cohen, New Scientist, 5-23-7 “Earth's natural wealth: an audit” http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19426051.200-earths-natural-wealth-an-audit.html
These may sound like drastic ...a big risk of conflict, says Reller.

Extinction.
White 11 Mr. Hugh White is professor of strategic studies at the Australian National University in Canberra and a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney. The Obama Doctrine WSJ, 11/25/11 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204452104577057660524758198.html
One risk is that escalating...dangerously unclear and disastrously low.

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_ New spending is the key issue that swings the election

USA Today ‘12 "Obama campaign goes on the defensive on spending, debt," 5-26-12,http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-05-26/obama-romney-debt-spending/55221120/1

Government spending and debt are emerging ..."hold both of those central tenets to be true."

_ The WTO cases have US-China trade tensions on the brink.  A Romney win pushes trade ties over the cliff – he’ll declare China a currency manipulator unleashing a trade war and crushing the global economy.

Joplin Globe 9-18-12 US, China file dueling complaints as trade tensions heat up, http://www.joplinglobe.com/national/x2056652499/US-China-file-dueling-complaints-as-trade-tensions-heat-up

The United States and China have filed ...the “already groaning global economy.”

_ Free trade prevents multiple scenarios for extinction
Panzer ‘8 (25-year veteran of the markets who has worked for for HSBC, Soros Funds, ABN Amro, Dresdner Bank, and J.P. Morgan Chase. New York Institute of Finance faculty member and a graduate of Columbia University. (Michael, Financial Armageddon, 136-8)
 Continuing calls for curbs...beginnings of a new world war.

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_ Wind displaces coal use

Burleson 9 (Elizabeth, Professor Elizabeth Burleson has a LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law, professor at the University of South Dakota School of Law, “Wind Power, National Security, and Sound Energy Policy”, 17 Penn St. Envtl. L. Rev. 137, Lexis, og)

Already producing 15-20% of its... sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and mercury. n23

_ This leads to coal exports – crushes the economy and flips the warming advantage

Williamson 4-4-12 Kevin D. (National Review deputy managing editor), Obama Subsidizes Dirty Chinese Coal Power, http://www.nationalreview.com/exchequer/295290/obama-subsidizes-dirty-chinese-coal-power 

There are many laws that are not...coal at the expense of the U.S. economy.

_Economic collapse causes nuclear war
Mead 9
(Walter Russell, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy – Council on Foreign Relations, “Only Makes You Stronger”, The New Republic, 2-4, http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f8andp=2)

For billions of people in nuclear-armed...we may still have to fight.

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German growth now – exports key

Reuters 10-21-12 Germany likely posted surprise growth in Q3: finmin report, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/21/us-germany-economy-idUSBRE89K0I520121021

The German economy likely grew in the third quarter despite a weak global backdrop thanks
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came above all from non-euro zone countries," the report said.

The plan kills German exports - Germany has linked the demise of nuclear to their export strategy – this is key to Merkel

Baetz 10-15-12 Juergen (AP Staffer), Germans face hefty bill to end nuclear power, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20121015/eu-germany-energy/

There were cheers around Germany when Chancellor Angela Merkel announced last year, in the
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a hedge against rising fossil fuel prices and a step toward energy independence.

Merkel key to the Euro 

Smith ’12 Patrick (correspondent, commentator, editor, and critic for more than thirty years, primarily for the International Herald Tribune and The New Yorker), "As Merkel Goes, So Goes the European Union," The Fiscal Times, 9-4-12, www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2012/09/04/As-Merkel-Goes-So-Goes-the-European-Union.aspx#page1

The European Union is likely to take a step to finalize the Continent’s economic and
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to accept Europe, and that is what we are about to witness.

This crashes the global economy, sparks a wave of nationalism, and protectionism

The Guardian 6-16-12 Larry Elliott, Helena Smith in Athens and Julia Kollewe, World Bank warns that euro collapse could spark global crisis, http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/16/world-bank-euro-collapse-crisis

The outgoing head of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, will warn the G20
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We are starting to see some increase in the use of trade restrictions."
Economic collapse leads to global war.
Lind, New America Foundation Economic Growth Program Policy Director, 5/11/2010
Michael, "Will the great recession lead to World War IV?," http://www.salon.com/news/economics/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/05/11/great_recession_world_war_iv

If history is any guide, an era of global economic stagnation will help the
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Eurasia, Eastasia and Oceania in 1984 is all too easy to imagine.