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Counterplan: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase distributist cooperative incentives for ~[insert plan area~].

Distributism is the only just social order – cooperatives are key

Howard 08 – Richard, Humanist Society of New South Wales Inc.
~[May 12, http://www.hsnsw.asn.au/Distributism.html-http://www.hsnsw.asn.au/Distributism.html~] ap
Distributism is a political philosophy based on the contention that
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ownership through not-for-profit lending for private purchase and co-operative enterprise.

Financial incentives re-entrench corporations, destroying communities

Slyke %26 Nyala 12 – Brian Van %26 Taliesen, The Toolbox for Education and Social Action
~[September 19, http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11618-corporations-create-the-problem-co-ops-offer-the-solution~~] ap
2. Because cooperatives are democratically owned by community members, co-ops keep
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of many, many more - of communities benefiting from co-ops.

Distributism prevents capitalistic slavery

Pernet 12 – Yves, independent political analyst
~[February 18, http://distributistreview.com/mag/2012/02/state-capitalism/-http://distributistreview.com/mag/2012/02/state-capitalism/~] ap
An authentic free market is not a capitalist globalized market, but a Distributist one
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to other "isms", Distributism is not a dogmatic ideology promising Utopia.