And with a stroke of a pen – no more inherency?
The recent budget passed by congress deals a bit with Cuba and may make inherency an easy target for the travel case and food & medicine case. While I haven’t seen too many specifics debaters may need to find a new case or at least prepare for big inherency debates. For an introduction to inherency check out my prior post here. I guess we’ll see if Venezuela stops oil imports =)
Travel Restrictions Lifted in recent budget
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(Anne, Associated Press, March 10, 2009, http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iRZ0jbwAcDj5dkd6GCPmrQcciVwAD96RFD900)
Under the bill Obama is expected to sign, Cuban-Americans could travel to Cuba once a year to visit relatives and stay for an unlimited duration. Existing rules limit family visits to once every three years for no more than 14 days at a time.
Rules eased for food and medicine imports
FLAHERTY 2009
(Anne, Associated Press, March 10, 2009, http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iRZ0jbwAcDj5dkd6GCPmrQcciVwAD96RFD900)
The bill would also ease rules for imports of food and medicine into Cuba. That change has prompted protests by lawmakers contending that a brutal dictatorship is being rewarded.
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With regards to food and medicine, not much has changed. The new policy allows for a ‘general license’ to the island to transact business for either, and allows retracts the cash-in-advance policy for all imports from the U.S.
Under the CDA and all ensuing legislation, food and medicine have been permitted to the island, companies just didn’t want to because it was such a hassle. So that plan really hasn’t been inherent since 1992.
These provisions of the Omnibus Spending Bill spell MUCH more doom for DA Uniqueness than they do for AFF Inherency. Especially the travel provision. The food and drug provision has no teeth and doesn’t even cause inherency problems for the Cash-in-Advance/Moran Amendment affirmatives.
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Fear not. If you read the fine print, the “new policies” – as is true for much of Obama’s first fifty days, at least IMHO – are more show business than substance. At most, they return U.S. travel and remittance policies back to the good old days of the Clinton Administration, circa 2000. In fact, our new Secretary of the Treasury has admitted as much in writing.