Tournament: Lexington Winter Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge:
Plan: The United States federal government should make a binding offer to create an Automatic Exchange of Information and Trade Transparency Units with Mexico.
Advantage 1 is the economy
Illicit financial flows decimate the Mexican economy –
First, GDP – IFF’s weaken output and outpace economic growth
Kar 12 - Lead Economist at Global Financial Integrity, Former Economist at IMF
(Dev, Global Financial Integrity, Mexico: Illicit Financial Flows, Macroeconomic Imbalances, and the Underground Economy, January 2012, http://www.gfintegrity.org/storage/gfip/documents/reports/mexico/gfi_mexico_report_english-web.pdf)
Second, Illicit flows diminish funds for economic development and effective governance
Corchado, 12 - Mexico bureau chief @ Dallas Morning News (Alfredo, “Exclusive: Mexico pays heavy price for tax evasion, report finds”, 29 January 2012, Dallas Morning News, http://www.dallasnews.com/news/nationworld/mexico/20120128-exclusive-mexico-pays-heavy-price-for-tax-evasion-report-finds.ece)
Third, IFF’s slow economic growth and drain capital
Curcio 2011
(Mexico: As Violence Spreads, Money Flees¶ January 6, 2011¶ ¶ Karly Curcio is an economist at Global Financial Integrity. ¶ Forthcoming Global Financial Integrity Report Finds Mexican Economy Lost Over US$460 billion between 2000 and 2008 http://www.financialtransparency.org/2011/01/06/mexico-as-violence-spreads-money-flees/)
U.S. is key-most of Mexican IFFs end up in U.S. banks
Lawton, 12 – Former Canadian policy analyst who worked on anti-money laundering initiatives (Christopher, “U.S. Should Expand Automatic Exchange Of Tax Information To Mexico”, January 31, 2012, Financial Transparency Coalition, http://www.financialtransparency.org/2012/01/31/u-s-should-expand-automatic-exchange-of-tax-information-to-mexico/)
Mexico’s economy is key to the US economy
Trade – American prosperity depends on Mexico’s economic fundamentals
Sarukhan 12 (Arturo Sarukhan, Ambassador of Mexico to the United States, and#34;Mexico Critically Important’ to US Economy and#34; Wilson Center, 2/24/12, video testimony which was typed out http://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/mexico-E28098critically-importantE28099-to-us-economy)
IFFs facilitate and preserve organized cyberterrorist networks
Caryl 13 - Senior fellow at the Legatum Institute in London and a Contributing Editor at Foreign Policy Magazine 7/24/13 (Christian, “What a tangled web global criminality weaves,” Australian Financial Review, LexisNexis)
Hackers threaten the economy and cost the US billions of dollars a year
Mohammed 12
(The Hacker's Market: Cybersecurity Risk in the U.S. Economy Mima Mohammed corrospondet for good but sights Falkenrath who worked for the DoD in cyberdefense and was white house deputy homeland security advosior as well as the deputy commissioner for Counterterrorism 09/26/13 https://www.law.upenn.edu/blogs/regblog/2013/09/26-mohammed-falkenrath-speech.html)
Economic decline leads to nuclear war
Harris and Burrows, 09 – Counselor in the National Intelligence Council, the principal drafter of Global Trends 2025 (“Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis”, Washington Quarterly, http://www.twq.com/09april/docs/09apr_burrows.pdf)
Prefer statistically significant evidence
Royal 10 (Jedediah, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction – U.S. Department of Defense, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises”, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, Ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213–215)
That risks extinction
O’Hanlon 12 Kenneth G. Lieberthal, Director of the John L. Thornton China Center and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution, former Professor at the University of Michigan “The Real National Security Threat: America's Debt,” Los Angeles Times, July 10th, http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2012/07/10-economy-foreign-policy-lieberthal-ohanlon
Advantage 2 is international drugs
Drug cartels rely on illicit financial flows (IFFs) to launder profits across the U.S.-Mexico border
Targeted News Service, 12 (“Mexico Hemorrhages US$872 Billion to Crime, Corruption, Tax Evasion from 1970-2010,” Targeted News Service, January 29, 2012, pageLexis)
Status quo banking regulations fail – only granting Mexico’s request for automatic exchange of information (AEI) solves
Stier, 09— Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (Ken, “Foreign tax cheats find US banks a safe haven”, Time—Business and Money, October 29, 2009, http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1933288,00.html)
Cracking down on IFFs is key to curtailing the drug trade
Gascologne, 13 (Clark, “U.S. Senate Report: Tackle Money Laundering to Curtail Drug Trafficking,” April 26, 2013, http://www.gfintegrity.org/content/view/611/70/
Third, political instability – the drug war decides the future of Mexico’s political institutions – failure undermines democracy and leads to regional instability
Bonner, 10 (Robert C., Senior Principal of the Sentinel HS Group. He was Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration from 1990 to 1993 and Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection from 2001 to 2005, July/August, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/66472/robert-c-bonner/the-new-cocaine-cowboys )
Instability leads to extinction – generates conflict, leads to failed states, and exacerbates all of the root causes of conflict
Manwaring ‘5, General Douglas MacArthur Chair and Prof of Military Strategy @ U.S. Army War College, Ret U.S. Army Colonel, Adjunct Professor of International Politics @ Dickinson College (Max G, October, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Bolivarian Socialism, and Asymmetric Warfare”, Strategic Studies Institute, http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB628.pdf)
Solvency
Exchange must be automatic – on request method empirically fails to deter
Economist, 2/16/13 (“Tax transparency: Automatic response,” The Economist, 2/16/2013, http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21571561-way-make-exchange-tax-information-work-automatic-response)
Developing countries – including Mexico - are capable of implementing AEI –contrary arguments are specious and condescending
Gurtner et. al, 09 – Chairman Tax Justice Center International Board, International, non-aligned group or researchers and activists concerned about tax evasion (Bruno, David Spencer, Senior Advisor Tax Justice Center, and Jon Christensen, Secretary for Tax Justice Center, “Automatic Exchange of Information and the United Nations Tax Committee,” December 19, http://www.taxjustice.net/cms/upload/pdf/Info_Exchange_Letter_0912.pdf)
Trade Transparency Units (TTUs) solve trade mispricing – the largest source of IFFs between the U.S. and Mexico
U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, 13 (“The Buck Stops Here: Improving U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Practices,”
(April, p. 20, http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=311e974a-feb6-48e6-b302-0769f16185ee)