Episode 19 – Post-Debate Analysis

Mark Geise Show – Mark Geise

In this episode, I discuss the second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. I believe that Trump’s two recent “scandals,” the tax scandal and the locker room talk scandal, have been overblown. Any guy has been around people that joke around like Trump did, and virtually all guys just laugh off that dialog as exaggeration. I am more annoyed by the fake outrage that has come from all over the political spectrum about Trump’s comments. I don’t condone what he said, but no one should be taking major offense to these comments. Also, anyone criticizing Trump for his tax situation is a hypocrite. We all take the deductions available to us. If you don’t, good for you, but it does not give you the right to vilify someone for taking the deductions available to him or her. Carrying forward losses is tax accounting 101. I also discuss the back and forth between the two surrounding Obamacare. It is obvious (as if it wasn’t already) that Hillary is economically illiterate and does not understand how insurance companies function. Trump’s criticisms of Obamacare were far from perfect, but at least his proposals would be a small step in the right direction. Finally, I discuss how the two horrible candidates we have to choose from is an inevitable result of democracy.

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Suggested Readings/Related Articles:
“Trump’s Taxes and Tax Loss Carry-Forwards” – Wall Street Journal
“Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005” – Washington Post
“ObamaCare Is Failing Exactly The Way Critics Said It Would” – Investor’s Business Daily
“The Economics of ObamaCare” – Ludwig von Mises Institute
Video: “Clinton, Trump Clash Over Obamacare” – YouTube
Book: “The Myth of the Rational Voter” by Bryan Caplan