Name: Zak, Jack, David, Sean, Andrew, Charlie Date:_________________________
Ms. Dennis/Mr. Patten Pirate’s Presidential Debates
Introduction: The Presidential debates are exercises designed to allow your campaign team the opportunity to strengthen your skills in the areas of leadership, team building, group problem solving, and presentation. The debates give your campaign team the opportunity to present your ideas to your voters and opposition. The debates will consist of the Secretary, President and Vice President. Each member should be well informed and able to answer each of the questions presented.
___________________________ – Education Debate
___________________________ - Foreign Policy Debate
___________________________ - Economy Debate
Economy
1. Our nation is currently over 20 trillion dollars in debt. How does your administration plan to decrease this debt?
- Include specific changes you will make.
- 1.5% cut on all discretionary spending programs across the board to avoid any bias.
- We plan to increase taxes simply because our government does not make enough money to be able to perform at its highest potential. We are spending more money than we have.
- We plan to make several cuts on programs that this administration sees as too costly
2. What programs will you cut or create to decrease our nation’s debt.
- You must explain how cutting or creating these programs will decrease the debt. Refer to your budget activity.
- 1.5% cut on all discretionary spending programs across the board to avoid any bias as stated before
- save 18.456 billion dollars
- We plan to cut spending on unemployed and welfare benefits
- We plan to increase the state government's role in education
- reduce the funds toward the Department of education’s development of standardized tests.
- we plan to reduce our humanitarian aid to foreign
- we also plan to cut spending on NASA’s space exploration
3. What is outsourcing? How do you plan to address outsourcing? Explain with specific examples.
Outsourcing is when you attain goods from other countries or suppliers in place of an internal source
We will buy US goods first then what ever else we need we will buy from US friendly countries
Outsourcing is also when one company agrees to contract out a part of their existing activity to another company somewhere else in the world
We have previously stated that we will offer businesses incentives who keep their industry domestic
On June 8, 2017, Trump's administration released the "Rebuild America" plan. It would spend $200 billion over 10 years to leverage $800 billion in business spending. It would reduce permit process time by eight years. It would create 1 million apprentices in two years
We plan to continue Trump’s actions here to create jobs
4. What type of taxation system is currently used in the United States? Would you continue our same tax system or change it? Explain.
The type of taxation that is currently used in the US is graduated. We plan to use the same system but redivide the the percentages that people pay based on income. , 418,400-600,000 39.6% at 600,000+ at 42% For the lowest it will decrease the marginal rate to 6.5 % because they need all the money they can receive
5. How has President Trump worked to improve our economy? Do you agree or disagree with his actions? Explain.
https://www.thebalance.com/trump-s-tax-plan-how-it-affects-you-4113968
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/budget.pdf
a series of reforms to SNAP (The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people living in the United States) that close eligibility loopholes, target benefits to the neediest households, and require able-bodied adults to work. Combined, these reforms will reduce SNAP expenditures while maintaining the basic assistance low-income families need to weather hard times.
We agree with his plans
6. Why should Americans trust you to fix our economy? Explain with specific examples.
You should trust us to fix the economy because we have a plan for this great nation. We want to see this country prospering and we believe that our cuts and reconstruction of our current tax system will help balance this country's budget and be a huge step i the right direction towards balancing the budget.
Guidelines for the Debate
30 second opening statement from each President
Question posed by Mr. Patten or Ms. Dennis
1-2 minute response from each of the Secretaries
2 minute crossfire between the Secretaries
This format will continue until the end of the debate. The Secretary, President and Vice President may take turns answering questions.
At the conclusion of the debate, each Secretary will give a 30 second closing statement explaining why the voters should elect their campaign team.
Ms. Dennis/Mr. Patten Pirate’s Presidential Debates
Introduction: The Presidential debates are exercises designed to allow your campaign team the opportunity to strengthen your skills in the areas of leadership, team building, group problem solving, and presentation. The debates give your campaign team the opportunity to present your ideas to your voters and opposition. The debates will consist of the Secretary, President and Vice President. Each member should be well informed and able to answer each of the questions presented.
___________________________ – Education Debate
___________________________ - Foreign Policy Debate
___________________________ - Economy Debate
Economy
1. Our nation is currently over 20 trillion dollars in debt. How does your administration plan to decrease this debt?
- Include specific changes you will make.
- 1.5% cut on all discretionary spending programs across the board to avoid any bias.
- We plan to increase taxes simply because our government does not make enough money to be able to perform at its highest potential. We are spending more money than we have.
- We plan to make several cuts on programs that this administration sees as too costly
2. What programs will you cut or create to decrease our nation’s debt.
- You must explain how cutting or creating these programs will decrease the debt. Refer to your budget activity.
- 1.5% cut on all discretionary spending programs across the board to avoid any bias as stated before
- save 18.456 billion dollars
- We plan to cut spending on unemployed and welfare benefits
- We plan to increase the state government's role in education
- reduce the funds toward the Department of education’s development of standardized tests.
- we plan to reduce our humanitarian aid to foreign
- we also plan to cut spending on NASA’s space exploration
3. What is outsourcing? How do you plan to address outsourcing? Explain with specific examples.
Outsourcing is when you attain goods from other countries or suppliers in place of an internal source
We will buy US goods first then what ever else we need we will buy from US friendly countries
Outsourcing is also when one company agrees to contract out a part of their existing activity to another company somewhere else in the world
We have previously stated that we will offer businesses incentives who keep their industry domestic
On June 8, 2017, Trump's administration released the "Rebuild America" plan. It would spend $200 billion over 10 years to leverage $800 billion in business spending. It would reduce permit process time by eight years. It would create 1 million apprentices in two years
We plan to continue Trump’s actions here to create jobs
4. What type of taxation system is currently used in the United States? Would you continue our same tax system or change it? Explain.
The type of taxation that is currently used in the US is graduated. We plan to use the same system but redivide the the percentages that people pay based on income. , 418,400-600,000 39.6% at 600,000+ at 42% For the lowest it will decrease the marginal rate to 6.5 % because they need all the money they can receive
5. How has President Trump worked to improve our economy? Do you agree or disagree with his actions? Explain.
https://www.thebalance.com/trump-s-tax-plan-how-it-affects-you-4113968
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/budget.pdf
a series of reforms to SNAP (The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people living in the United States) that close eligibility loopholes, target benefits to the neediest households, and require able-bodied adults to work. Combined, these reforms will reduce SNAP expenditures while maintaining the basic assistance low-income families need to weather hard times.
We agree with his plans
6. Why should Americans trust you to fix our economy? Explain with specific examples.
You should trust us to fix the economy because we have a plan for this great nation. We want to see this country prospering and we believe that our cuts and reconstruction of our current tax system will help balance this country's budget and be a huge step i the right direction towards balancing the budget.
Guidelines for the Debate
30 second opening statement from each President
Question posed by Mr. Patten or Ms. Dennis
1-2 minute response from each of the Secretaries
2 minute crossfire between the Secretaries
This format will continue until the end of the debate. The Secretary, President and Vice President may take turns answering questions.
At the conclusion of the debate, each Secretary will give a 30 second closing statement explaining why the voters should elect their campaign team.