Germany’s austerity policy - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 4: Tossup 10

Description acceptable. Rules for this policy were amended in 2021 to allow its circumvention through “off-budget funds.” Farmers blocked roads in January 2024 after a constitutional court (-5[1])ruled that a transfer to the Climate and Transformation Fund violated (-5[1])this policy. (-5[1]) The party that introduced this policy campaigned on its success as the “black (15[1])zero.” This policy has (15[1])been mandated (15[1]-5[2])constitutionally (15[1])since 2009 as (15[1])a (*) “brake” in the Basic Law. The proposal for an (-5[1])infrastructure fund that (-5[1])circumvented this policy (-5[1])led Christian (10[3])Lindner to withdraw the FDP from the governing “traffic (10[1])light” coalition. In 2025, Friedrich Merz and outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz secured an exemption from this policy to strengthen (10[3]-5[1])defense. For 10 (-5[2])points, what (-5[1])policy (-5[1])limits (10[1])spending by the (10[1])largest (10[1]-5[1])economy in the (10[2]0[1])Eurozone? (10[13]0[4])■END■

ANSWER: Germany’s austerity policy [or the German balanced budget amendment; accept descriptions of spending limit, deficit limit, or debt limit rules in Germany; accept the Federal Republic of Germany or Bundesrepublik Deutschland for “Germany”; accept debt brake or Schuldenbremse before “brake”; accept the black zero or schwarze Null before “black”; prompt on austerity or spending limits or deficit limit or balanced budget with “in what country?”]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Sriram Susarla	UBC B	Abbas I founded the Abbasids	26	-5
Josh Koch	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	1000000 Delinquents	37	-5
Jakob Myers	Indiana	Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	39	-5
Dillon George	Catholic University A	Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	53	15
Doug Simons	Noah Sheidlower	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	57	15
Michael Mays	No Country for Old Quizzers	C R A B S	59	15
Daniel Hothem	Not Old! (Old)	Stanford B	59	-5
Liam Mooney	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	59	-5
James Stevenson	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	BHSU	60	15
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford	Stanford A	Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	63	15
Robert Wang	Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	Shipping Down from Ballston	73	-5
Adam Silverman	The Fire Neg Time	Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	76	-5
James McCurley	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	79	-5
Chris Sims	Northwestern	Muscle Mass Extinction Event	81	10
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU A	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	81	10
Thomas Hart	A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	Dour Straits	81	10
Ewan MacAulay	H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	90	10
Michael Kearney	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	109	-5
Chris Ray	Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	Contessa Dora	109	10
Nathaniel Hull	Berkeley A	Team 7	109	10
Liam Markland	The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	UBC A	109	10
Eric Mukherjee	Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	112	-5
Emerson Patmore	Say It Ain't Zhou	UTK	112	-5
Cade Reinberger	The "C" Team	Habitat 67	114	-5
Jordan Brownstein	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	Chicago !A	115	-5
Kevin Thomas	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	David Foster Gromit	116	10
Mike Bentley	1000000 Delinquents	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	119	10
Akshar Goyal	Execute Order 6 7	Invective Against Swans	120	10
Delia Cropper	Dielectrical Materialism	Vacuous Tortoise	120	-5
Raymond Wang	Habitat 67	The "C" Team	123	0
Aseem Keyal	Untitled Keyal Team	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	123	10
David Bass	JHU	Penn State	123	10
John Marvin	Chicago !A	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	124	10
Joel Miles	Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	Indiana	124	10
Cooper Roh	Shipping Down from Ballston	Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	124	0
Jonathan Schnipper	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	124	10
Walter Zhang	Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	The Fire Neg Time	124	10
Conor Thompson	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	124	10
Rupert Psmith	Mike and Psmith	UNC Charity	124	0
Diego Almaraz	UNC Charity	Mike and Psmith	124	10
Cole Hartung	Rosslyn Academic Team	https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	124	10
Brendan Bethlehem	Vacuous Tortoise	Dielectrical Materialism	124	0
Matt Weiner	It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	Copán Seethe	124	10
Vinu Harihar	Berkeley B	Team 8	124	10
Michał Gerasimiuk	Stanford B	Not Old! (Old)	124	10
Justin Qian	Abbas I founded the Abbasids	UBC B	124	0
Jack Lewis	Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	124	10
Vincent Du	The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	124	10
Alina Moore	UTK	Say It Ain't Zhou	124	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	100%	25%	25%	105.00
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	50%	0%	50%	109.00
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	100%	0%	100%	124.00
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✕	4	100%	50%	25%	77.00
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	100%	20%	0%	106.60
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	100%	0%	100%	124.00
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	75%	25%	25%	76.67
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	100%	17%	50%	104.67
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	60%	20%	40%	87.00
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	100%	0%	0%	120.00