Tournament: TFA State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any

The right to housing ensures capitalist exploitation – it inevitably hinders the power of worker resistance at the hands of the "Socialist Bourgeois" because it chains them to the ground and creates dependency

Frederick Engels ‘72 (German philosopher, social scientist, journalist and businessman), 1872, "The Housing Question," https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/housing-question/ch02.htm  AHS-DM, 7-6-2016
Dr. Sax seems to assume that man is essentially a peasant, otherwise he would 

becoming a burden on the poor rate.

The AFF misdiagnoses the problem – homelessness is not a self-standing crisis, but an evil caused by capitalism. The AFF only displaces workers and ignores the root cause

Stuart Hodkinson '12 (Dr. Stuart Hodkinson is a Lecturer in Critical Urban Geography. His main research focus is on the 'new urban enclosures' with a specific interest in the politics, policies and day-to-day realities of housing privatisation, urban regeneration and state-led gentrification in the UK), 2012, "The return of the housing question," Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/return-housing-question  AHS-DM, 7-6-2016
The late 19th century ‘housing question’ During the early 1870s, ideological
by the ruling class’ (ibid.: 17) through working class revolution and expropriation of private property.

~DEHUM IMPX~ Capitalism reduces lives to mere commodities- lives are only valuable if they are profitable—means cap justifies the dehumanization of anyone not able to turn a profit, turns and outweighs the AC.

Morgareidge
Morgareidge writes: Morgareidge, Clayton, Prof of Philosophy at Lewis and Clark College, 1998, Why Capitalism is Evil 08/22 http://www.lclark.edu/~~clayton/commentaries/evil.html
Now none of these philosophers are naive: none of them thinks that sympathy,
making. Only when the end of capitalism is on the table will ethics have a seat at the table

Reject the affirmative as a rival praxis to mainstream social housing. The alternative is mass squatting which creates autonomous living spaces outside the control of the capitalist market.

Stuart Hodkinson '12 (Dr. Stuart Hodkinson is a Lecturer in Critical Urban Geography. His main research focus is on the 'new urban enclosures' with a specific interest in the politics, policies and day-to-day realities of housing privatisation, urban regeneration and state-led gentrification in the UK), 2012, "The return of the housing question," Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/return-housing-question  AHS-DM, 7-6-2016
Today’s housing activists follow in the footsteps of a long lineage of popular struggles that have attempted to both improve housing conditions and
the respective insights and tensions between them might inform the ethical coordinates of housing activism today.

The purpose of debate education should be to train youth to challenge oppressive structures, not perpetuate them. Bohmer:

Teaching Privileged Students about Gender, Race, and Class Oppression." Teaching Sociology, Vol. 19, No. 2 (April, 1991) pp. 154-163.
Our ~a~ strong emphasis on institutional oppression is not only due to our sociological approach to social psychology; it is also an outcome of our i
new ways of introducing race, gender, and class into the sociology curriculum_.

Challenging class focus must come first since it’s the root cause of all oppression since class creates divisions of exclusions. Working against it is the role of the ballot since every form of oppression was invented from capitalist societies.

Joel Kovel 7, 9-1-2007, "The Enemy of Nature. The End of Capitalism or the End of the World" http://www.greanvillepost.com/special/Kovel,20Enemy20of20Nature20(2007).pdf
If, however, we ask the question of efficacy, that is, which split sets the others into motion, then priority would have to be given to class, for the 

be fought out in terms of all the active forms of social splitting. It is the management of these divisions that keeps state society functional.

Tournament: TFA State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any

Social Security keeps millions of Americans out of poverty.

Reno, Virginia. "Social Security: The Foundation Of Economic Security." Retirement and Disability Policy. March 21, 2016. Web. February 07, 2017. http://blog.ssa.gov/social- security-the-foundation-of-economic-security/.
"For example, many people know that 10 percent of seniors, or 4.6 million individuals, live in poverty. Yet many don’t know just how important Social Security is in preventing seniors from falling into poverty. If today’s seniors had to rely on only their income from sources other than Social Security, fully 4 in 10 would be poor. Social Security is our nation’s most effective poverty prevention program; its retirement, disability, and survivor benefits keep 21 million Americans out of poverty, including 14 million seniors. So, keeping Social Security strong is one of the best ways that we, as a nation, can address senior poverty and promote economic security for all. "

Any increase in spending will lead to a trade off in other programs.

Sange, Alexandra. "House Passes New Rules For The 112th Congress." National association of community health centers. January 18, 2011. Web. February 07, 2017. http://blogs.nachc.com/washington/house-passes-new-rules-for-the-112th-congress/.
"The new rules replace the previous ‘pay-as-you-go’ or PAYGO requirement with a ~is~‘cut-as-you- go’ or cut-go requirement. Cut-go prohibits the House from considering any bill that produces a net increase in mandatory spending within the 1-year, 5-year and 10-year budget windows, as opposed to PAYGO’s ten-year window. If a bill increases mandatory spending by any amount, the bill must cut the budget somewhere by that same amount. Under PAYGO, spending cuts could serve as offsets to spending increases, however, revenue increases could also serve as offsets. Under he ‘cut-go’ rule increases in revenue cannot be used to offset increases in mandatory spending." 

AND,  Republicans will demand cuts from major welfare programs and social services.

Mcauliff, Michael. "GOP Passes Deficit-Hiking Tax Cuts, Accuses Dems Of Irresponsibility." Huffington Post. June 12, 2014. Web. February 07, 2017. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/12/republicans-raise-deficit'n'5488588.html.
"Democrats accused Republicans of hypocrisy, pointing out that a few months 

insurance for a significant period of time." 

This is magnified by the current administration, who has already signed an executive order about federal regulations.

Bourree Lam, Trump’s 'Two-for-One' Regulation Executive Order, Atlantic, 1-30-2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/trumps-regulation-eo/515007/
"On Monday morning, President Donald Trump signed yet another executive 

Power Plan—which limits carbon pollution from power plants and is currently on hold under a Supreme Court stay."

Cuts in social security directly harm poverty rates- this turns the aff

Rank, Mark. "Toward A New Understanding Of American Poverty." Washington University Journal of Law and Policy. January 01, 2006. Web. February 07, 2017. http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1241andcontext=law'journa l'law'policy.
"Similarly, changes in various social supports and the social safety net 

understanding how and why the game produces losers in the first place."