Friday, August 5, 2016

Still Yet More Demagoguery

The demagoguery keeps coming. Now the idea is that, if Donald Trump levered any particular thing of which he is against, that is somehow  internally inconsistent or otherwise duplicitous.‎ That's hilarious. There is nothing at all wrong with living in a world within its rules, and simultaneously arguing that the rules should be changed. If you happen not to believe that mortgage interest should not be tax-deductible because the tax code should single out that particular type of real-estate expense, does that really mean that you shouldn't take the deduction if you have a mortgage?!? C'mon, people - please stop saying that kind of nonsense. If Trump can only compete in a world of low-cost labor by hiring low-cost labor, then compete he must - and it is completely consistent with that behavior to argue for rules that prohibit or at least discourage the use of such labor. Sheesh.