(((My Fellow Americans))) #59: Mortgage Interest Deduction JAM!

WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY! This week on (((My Fellow Americans))), prepare to have your thoughts on mortgage interest deductions ANNIHILATED! Libertarian Party Waffle House Caucus​ proudly presents the Mortgage Interest Deduction JAM! Sam Coppinger and TJ Roberts​ are supposed square off in a no-holds barred, to-the-DEATH Oxford-style debate cage match of epic proportions! Instead, TJ's computer breaks down and Sam and Spike face off in a battle of wits over the future of the liberty movement! WHO WILL CRY FIRST? MAYBE YOU!


About This Episode

WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY!

This week on (((My Fellow Americans))), prepare to have your thoughts on mortgage interest deductions ANNIHILATED!

Libertarian Party Waffle House Caucus​ proudly presents the Mortgage Interest Deduction JAM!

Sam Coppinger and TJ Roberts​ are supposed square off in a no-holds barred, to-the-DEATH Oxford-style debate cage match of epic proportions!

Instead, TJ’s computer breaks down and Sam and Spike face off in a battle of wits over the future of the liberty movement!

WHO WILL CRY FIRST? MAYBE YOU!

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Spike For Vice President

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Intro & Outro Music by JoDavi.


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interest deduction Jam edition of my
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this is of course as a special episode
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tonight is a very special night and by
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that I mean that we’re about to have
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bloodshed on the very streets that our
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children play on to libertarian men are
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about to battle it out in a brutal war
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of attrition that threatens to rend
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asunder everything we hold dear all to
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answer once and for all the question
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that keeps us awake at night our
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mortgage interest deductions a good
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thing or a bad thing who’s going to win
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well that’s up to you to decide at the
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end of this debate comment with the name
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of who you thought one and we will tally
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that and release the results tomorrow
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night so then let’s get started
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right now nope there we go our first
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debater is a freedom fighter based out
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of Kentucky who was involved with the
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election of Savannah Maddox and the
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passage of Constitutional Carry in his
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spare time he enjoys walks on the beach
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and horse racing he is TJ Roberts our
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second debater is a regular on my fellow
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Americans he is the creator and
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administrator of libertarian memes for
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neoliberal teens despite our great
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working relationship he refused to write
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a bio for
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me to make this show prep just slightly
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easier and so here I am now reading what
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I wrote about him he is of course Sam
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Coppinger and finally to bear witness to
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this tragic senseless violence is a
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cartoonishly adorable home for sale will
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someone buy me I sure hope so we will be
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finding out tonight gentlemen thank you
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for joining me thanks for having me
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again
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I am looking forward to it so before we
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get the started what have you guys been
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up to TJ what’s going on with you oh not
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much right now just doing a couple
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things that aren’t exactly ready for
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public release quite yet but otherwise
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just here to defend keep it okay cool
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and Sam what’s how have you been doing
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I just lost audio for TJ’s let so you
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should know that first but other than
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that I’m doing swell I’ve just
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introduced a new era in the evolution of
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the page the libertarian memes for
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neoliberal teens that is more diverse
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content than just the beams themselves
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as sharing articles and other opinions
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and things like that and also more
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importantly I’ve just launched the
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official merch store which does not just
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mean black t-shirts with the neoliberal
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teens written on them in black text its
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designs that I thought I like I’ve spent
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a lot of time on and for people of
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neoliberal or libertarian interests I
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think they’ll be appealing it’s on red
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bubble and there are currently three
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designs with more on the way and they
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can be gotten on stickers or shirts or
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lots of other products very good and
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that’s on your Facebook page yep okay
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cool how see what have you been up to
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well I just been waiting for someone to
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buy me and I sure hope that happens soon
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that is the last time I will be doing
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that by the way thank you good well guys
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TJ I just want to check your audio real
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quick cuz we did lose you for a second
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oh good
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all right so we will we will try to
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figure that out and in that I mean that
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TJ is not on this call all right let me
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try reaching out to him and in the
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meantime I will get started actually
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that’s probably not fair because he was
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not in the call here we go so we’re
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gonna call TJ Roberts so you were saying
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Sam so that the link to that is in the
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is on your page so if people want to buy
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neo-liberal merch they’ll be able to do
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that
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yeah that’s pinned to the top of the
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post it should or the top of the page it
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should be the first post that you see if
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you navigate to the page okay good well
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that is good well folks we’re having a
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bit of an issue in that TJ’s TJ’s
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computer has bricked suppose this means
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I win by default then what we’re about
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to find out I may have to tell the
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opposite side of that hold on we will
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see we may just give your side of this
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and then do this for a future you can
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you could play devil’s advocate yeah his
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computer’s bricked up and frozen so Sam
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Sam you ignorant see no um okay so
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all right let’s here’s how we were gonna
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do this and we’ll have to figure out how
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this was gonna work here was the rules
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that I was going to set forth and what I
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may do is just let you give your side
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and do devil’s advocate I think that
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might work but so here’s we’re gonna do
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it now with our new new and improved
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modified rules to the mortgage interest
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deduction jam that I’m coming with up
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with as I read how we were originally
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gonna do it first each of you are going
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to be given four minutes to give an
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opening statement that means that you
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Sam
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will be giving an opening statement next
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I’m going to ask you I was gonna ask two
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questions it’s kind of pointless now I’m
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gonna ask one question you will each be
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given you will you Sam will be given
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three minutes to answer and if you
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mention my name I will have a minute to
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respond actually I’m gonna talk whenever
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I want to it doesn’t really matter after
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that you will be given a chance to ask
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me a question this really makes no sense
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in this context then I’m going to
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present some questions from followers
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and commenters and you will have up to
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three minutes to answer I’m not really
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timing this at this point you can answer
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as much as you want and for those of you
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watching feel free to leave your
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questions and I will try to get to many
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as many of them as possible and then
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each of you you each of Sam will be
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given three minutes to give your closing
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remarks and then our lovely beautiful
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and brilliant viewing audience who I can
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totally tell have been working out will
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comment whether you have one or two how
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C has won either you were how see how
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she is nota I would have been keeping
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time by using our Muddy Waters media
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brand egg timer but Matt Hicks bought it
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from me eggy we love you and we miss you
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please come home in the meantime I will
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be using a digital timer gentlemen this
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is a libertarian debate and as such we
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will not tolerate any violations of the
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non-aggression principle any such
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violations will be met with whatever
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level of defensive violence is necessary
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up to and including nuclear weapons as
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always if you choose to strip naked
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during this debate I will not be sharing
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any of the ad revenue for you Sam you’re
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gonna be arguing in favor of this
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statement the mortgage interest
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deduction is an act of social
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engineering and distortive economic
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intervention by government
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let me get my timer out here we go uh
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let me see here so opening statements so
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I guess I guess we’re gonna be giving
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maybe I’ll give an opening statement I
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don’t know we will start with whomever
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is able that’s not really fair because I
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know the answers to these I want I just
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want to know if you know the answers to
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these we’re gonna use trivia to figure
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out who is gonna go first but now I just
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want to figure I just want to know if
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you know the answer to this so I want to
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know if you’re able to answer a very
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obscure trivia question you will be
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given 30 seconds to answer good luck the
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question is which US president
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previously served twice as an
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executioner good luck as an executioner
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execution I I do not know presumably
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somebody from either the 18th or early
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19th century so you know no answer
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Warren Harding I have no answer it was
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Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland yeah
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Grover Cleveland and so okay so we I
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have it I did anticipate that you may
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not know the answer to that and so I
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have a backup question which is and you
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have to get the closest answer and then
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you you win good luck what year did the
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Sultana sink what year did the Sultana
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sink the year of the sinking of the
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Sultana good luck well it’s the Sultana
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it’s a it’s a boat
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you can Lotus you could literally just
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say a number you’re losing audio now oh
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good you could just you could just say a
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number Sam
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1953 okay well that is the closest guess
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that anyone has given so you win it’s
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actually 1865 all right so you were not
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even remotely close but that’s okay um
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all right good so so because we have
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lost TJ this debate is largely pointless
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but you’re already live and so I’m gonna
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milk this for everything it’s worth so
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you will be giving an opening statement
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now you will have four minutes to give
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your statement you will be arguing
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against mortgage interest deductions so
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whenever you are ready go
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needless to say this is not a topic that
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interests most people or that any
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libertarians or virtually anybody else
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for that matter spend any amount of time
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focusing on at all however it does
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actually have some important
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repercussions and as worthy of
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discussion especially by libertarians
15:45
who love to debate about things
15:47
endlessly for no reason anyway this
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actually does have an impact on the
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world and deserves our attention as
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spike said in the opening statement that
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I will be arguing for or at least the
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statement of my position the mortgage
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interest deduction is an act of social
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engineering by government ineffective at
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that but that is the effort nonetheless
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and it also distorts markets raises the
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price of housing is deeply regressive
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and how it effects the poor because
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everything in American society does it
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has racist implications to it and a lot
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more bad stuff so we’ll kind of take
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those one by one first of all the social
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engineering aspect this is no conspiracy
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theory this is pretty openly what the
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point of the mortgage interest deduction
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was in the first place was kind of
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post-war the government wanted to
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encourage homeownership because they
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thought that nuclear family units with
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you know one mother one father
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two and a half kids and a single-family
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suburban home was the most effective and
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structured and positive way for society
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to be organized so they wanted to
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encourage that lifestyle by making it in
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theory easier for people to own homes
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and make it cheaper for them to do so so
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that more people could do it and that
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they could all be a nice little
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government-approved families now on that
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measure as if that’s not disturbing
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enough from a libertarian perspective
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that government is encouraging a
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particular lifestyle and discouraging
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others which that should be you know
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should not like that um it did not work
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anyway if you look at homeownership
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rates of the United States where we do
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have a mortgage interest deduction
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compared to somewhere like Canada or the
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UK or much of other Western Europe the
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homeownership sar virtually identical
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and being able to deduct our mortgage
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interest does not actually an encourage
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homeownership here anymore than it does
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they’re not having it so even if you
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believe that homeownership is good and
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you have no problem with government
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socially engineering the way that we
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should all live our lives it was not
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effective in that regard
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anyway now the economics of it is that
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it actually raises the price of housing
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for everybody because if you are going
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to buy a house and you know that you are
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going to be able to deduct the cost of
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the interest that you are paying on your
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mortgage loan from your taxable income
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you are going to spend more on a house
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than you would otherwise because the
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cost is artificially lowered by
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government picking a winner and loser
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and picking what you should be doing
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with your life and so they are
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encouraging a particular kind of
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behavior which makes it cheaper to
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engage in that behavior however because
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people are more willing to pay a higher
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price because they know that they’ll get
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that deduction cut off later that raises
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the price of housing for everybody and
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that includes for renters as well
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so it raises the price of rent it raises
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the price of housing it raises the price
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of land and it generally distorts the
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market because of a specific action
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government has undertaken it is also
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extremely regressive in its effect it
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benefits almost exclusively the highest
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income earners in the United States
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because that’s who owns homes and you’re
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able to deduct up to $1,000,000 off of
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it I think that has recently been cut by
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the Trump administration one of the very
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very few think good things that he is
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actually done however it still exists
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and it benefits the highest income
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earners at the expense of the poor and
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it’s not just a thing of I hear this
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argument from a lot of like ancap
19:34
leading libertarians off and of well oh
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you know taxation is theft so anytime we
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can reduce the amount of theft that’s
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good and that’s not really how it works
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when you look at it with any more than
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most simplistic view because if you’re
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artificially lowering taxes for one
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group of people that’s essentially
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raising them for everybody else if price
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or if spending is held constant which it
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is going to be just because they’re
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earning less tax income does not mean
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the government is going to spend less
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they’re still spending the same act
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regardless ten seconds you can interject
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if you want I could probably go on for a
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long time but let’s have some
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back-and-forth okay cool so because
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again you are now the only participant a
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lot of how this was gonna be structured
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makes little to no sense so I’m gonna be
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changing it but I’m still having to go
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by how I have it structured so I guess
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this is this is where I was gonna have
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moderator questions I guess is gonna be
20:27
more back and forth discussion slash
20:29
debate as opposed to me asking you a
20:32
question and then asking someone else a
20:33
question
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I am spike Cohen and I am the moderator
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and these are my questions I will be
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asking a series of questions that are
20:43
either critical of your argument or
20:45
examine it further and you have as long
20:48
as you want to I mean at this point
20:49
we’re just talking between the duals um
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so this was my original question I was
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originally originally gonna ask you a
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question that is critical to your
20:56
argument I was gonna ask
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TJ one that was critical to his it
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doesn’t really make sense for me to ask
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the one that’s critical to TJ’s because
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it’s basically what you just said so
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here’s my question for you that’s that’s
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critical to your argument Sam
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neither of us I don’t think want any
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kind of government
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distortion of the market but we also
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don’t live in a vacuum and we don’t live
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in a situation where we can you know
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perfectly pick and choose what kind of
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things happen within government whether
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it’s deductions or additional taxes or
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reductions in taxes we kind of are often
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fighting for what we can get considering
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the fact that we aren’t able to just
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eliminate all taxation and you know
21:33
transition to some kind of voluntary
21:34
payment system or have a perfectly fair
21:37
tax or regulatory system isn’t it good
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to fight for any kind of tax deduction
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that anyone can get with the idea that
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we just always keep pushing for fewer
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and fewer taxes and more and more
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deductions and just getting them
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whenever we can and if not why not
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that’s a very oversimplified view that
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doesn’t take into account what
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libertarianism is actually fighting for
21:57
because it’s not as simplistic as just
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taxes are bad less taxes are good when
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tax when tax subset it is a subsidy if
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libertarians don’t like subsidies and
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some people are dumb and don’t think
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that tax subsidies count as subsidies
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but I assure you that they do when the
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government subsidizes something that
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does distort the market and encourages
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specific kinds of behavior or specific
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industries at the expense of others that
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is government picking winners and losers
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and interjecting itself into the market
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and preventing it from working as
22:28
efficiently as it should and that really
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should be a greater libertarian priority
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than just talks is Obed is ensuring that
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the market can operate as it’s supposed
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to because we know that we ought to all
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respect as libertarians that the market
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is a very efficient effective way of
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achieving the best outcomes for society
22:46
but when government interjects itself
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into at those markets and interferes
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with their natural course and their
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ability to function we get worse
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outcomes for people and really that
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should be what we’re focused on is
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getting the best outcomes for people
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okay fair enough but I guess what I’m
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trying to say is what our time not be
23:07
better spent on just pushing forward so
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for example well actually I’m gonna be
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addressing this in another question so
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we can go back to that you would mention
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that the original purpose and I didn’t
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because I wasn’t actually gonna be
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debating this I didn’t you know event
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any of this kind of stuff but you would
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said that the original purpose of the
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mortgage interest deduction was to try
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to encourage nuclear families to buy
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single-family homes in the post-war
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setting and you know one with the whole
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baby boom going on and everything else
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and that you know that that was a type
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of social engineering and it assuming
23:37
that that’s true you don’t have to be a
23:40
nuclear family or be purchasing a
23:42
single-family home to get a mortgage or
23:45
to purchase a home you could if you’re a
23:49
single non-binary person who chooses to
23:52
you know get a you know get a condo or a
23:56
flat somewhere you can also get a
23:58
mortgage for that or if you wanted to
24:00
you know whatever if you want to be a
24:02
polyamorous you know commune and
24:04
purchase a attractive land now you know
24:07
to you know have your mutual aid society
24:09
in or whatever you could do that as well
24:12
in light of that is this still social
24:15
engineering and if so why it’s still an
24:18
encouraging I mean the things that you
24:21
said are true yeah those people could
24:22
get a mortgage but obviously the the
24:24
vast like 95 plus percent majority of
24:27
people are getting a mortgage to get a
24:28
house for their single family which is
24:30
fine and I want to do that someday when
24:32
I’m older too and that’s fine that’s a
24:34
perfectly valid decision that anybody
24:36
can make I have like I don’t have a
24:38
problem against single-family housing as
24:40
a concept or if anybody wants to buy
24:43
them I have a problem with government
24:45
encouraging one specific kind of
24:47
behavior over others and that behavior
24:49
is home ownership in owning a
24:53
single-family home which is what the
24:55
mortgage interest deduction was intended
24:58
for in the first place even though like
24:59
I said it wasn’t very effective at that
25:02
anyway ok buddy but even still ok so so
25:08
yes the fact is that in a
25:11
heteronormative mostly while I’m you
25:14
didn’t even mention race by na-na-na
25:16
society where the vast majority people
25:17
are the heterosexuals sis had people
25:19
that are looking to create a family and
25:22
that like you even said it’s something
25:24
you want to do is the fact that the
25:26
majority of people is that not
25:29
substantive how is that different from
25:30
saying that for example we shouldn’t
25:32
have an you know Earned Income Tax
25:33
Credit or you know a lower income tax
25:36
because the majority of people that are
25:38
going to be using
25:39
or you know sis had heterosexual people
25:43
who want to create a family basically we
25:48
shouldn’t have have many kinds of
25:50
deductions at all
25:52
like most deductions are a bad thing
25:55
that our social engineering and distort
25:57
markets like if we’re if we are to have
25:59
to have taxes especially like an income
26:02
tax it should be pretty much flat across
26:04
the board not encouraging or
26:05
discouraging any particular kind of
26:07
behavior or subsidizing or punishing any
26:09
particular industry okay um this and and
26:16
you can tell me where I’m wrong I know
26:18
where you’re gonna tell me where I’m
26:19
wrong but in not in application but in
26:24
philosophy this feels in my mind in
26:30
partially how you’ve presented it as
26:32
being similar to the the libertarian
26:35
pro-immigration control argument in that
26:38
it argues for additional government
26:41
intrusion into something in this case
26:43
attacks because of other infringement
26:46
that are already in place such as you
26:48
know zoning or you know other taxing the
26:51
taxes and regulations that are in place
26:53
that harm the poor or you know try to
26:56
create a middle class at the at the at
27:00
the expense of the poor again wouldn’t
27:03
it be better just to push for
27:04
deregulation in the housing market that
27:06
would allow for lower income earners to
27:08
purchase homes so that this wouldn’t be
27:09
as distortive and in favoring of higher
27:11
income earners and and being less
27:13
progressive I’ve been that’s fine yeah
27:16
we should absolutely be calling for D
27:18
zoning at least episode anyway but
27:20
that’s not really relevant to my
27:22
position on this issue it’s that it is a
27:25
market distort of tax not just like the
27:28
zoning thing really doesn’t have
27:30
anything to do with it I’m not really
27:31
sure where you got that from that again
27:33
it they if you look at the economics of
27:36
it if you were incentivizing and
27:38
subsidizing it the car the affordability
27:42
of housing it by allowing people like so
27:45
if you go and do with something else if
27:49
you go skydiving every week going
27:51
skydiving trips of
27:53
the government doesn’t subsidize that
27:54
behavior but it does subsidize
27:56
homeownership but that’s just a
27:58
particular you know behavior that our
28:00
choice that some people make a
28:02
government subsidizes it by making the
28:03
price artificially cheaper in not
28:07
allowing the supply and demand you know
28:09
the market system to function properly
28:12
it raises the price of housing because
28:14
government is artificially lowering the
28:16
cost of the interest on the mortgage
28:20
loans and another reason that that’s a
28:22
big problem economically is if you know
28:24
the subsidy isn’t enough and interfering
28:27
in the market is that it encourages very
28:29
financially risky behavior because it
28:32
encourages people to take out as large
28:34
of a loan as they can and basically put
28:37
down as little as they can or there’s
28:41
there’s no we should if anything if
28:44
government was to subsidize a particular
28:46
kind of behavior or choice which should
28:48
not do but if it was going to it should
28:50
be done in a way to subsidize putting
28:53
the maximum amount down that people will
28:55
be willing to do so they’ll be less
28:58
likely to default on their loans and
29:00
cause a housing crash like we saw in
29:01
2008 but what the mortgage interest
29:04
deduction does is it encourage people to
29:06
take out a larger mortgage loan because
29:09
they know that they won’t have to pay
29:10
the interest on that or you know that
29:14
the interest payment will be subsidized
29:16
on it anyway right okay so so your
29:20
argument is essentially across the board
29:22
that there shouldn’t be these different
29:24
carve outs for certain type of behaviors
29:26
that it should essentially just be
29:28
whatever the taxes should be kind of a
29:30
flat across-the-board thing and that it
29:32
shouldn’t be trying to pick winners and
29:34
losers in terms of what you know what
29:37
what kind of economic behaviors or
29:41
actions are being taken
29:43
you know incentivizing them or D
29:44
incentivizing them yeah exactly that’s a
29:47
very standard libertarian point of view
29:49
that government should not be in the
29:51
business of encouraging or discouraging
29:52
particular behaviors so as long as they
29:55
don’t harm anybody else okay fair enough
29:58
so in the interest of beek for two
30:01
reasons first of all in the interest
30:02
that you that of not company
30:06
the person that was prepared to debate
30:08
this their computer pricked and because
30:11
I didn’t really have time to really sink
30:13
into debating what I don’t necessarily
30:16
disagree with and haven’t had time to
30:18
really vet that out in the interest of
30:20
that I think I’m going to agree with you
30:23
to the extent that the government
30:25
shouldn’t be distorting things and if we
30:27
are able to reschedule this debate then
30:29
we can do that I’m going to let you do
30:31
your well actually no so we have some
30:36
well I’ll let you do your closing
30:38
remarks cuz the rest of the follower
30:40
questions and the thing I want to talk
30:42
to you about doesn’t have anything to do
30:43
with this I’ll let you give your closing
30:44
remarks you have I mean are there any
30:46
audience questions about this issue or
30:49
not about this so far no I do have some
30:54
false anybody watching at all oh yeah
30:56
yeah no we have people watching and I
30:57
definitely have some follower questions
30:59
but none of them are about this so so
31:03
yeah so if you want that’s why I was
31:04
saying if you want to just give your
31:05
closing remarks on this and then we’ll
31:07
get to the other stuff and we can we can
31:09
do that so whenever you are ready you
31:13
can give your you can give your closing
31:17
statement I mean you know there are a
31:19
few more things to mention of why them
31:20
we should oppose the mortgage interest
31:22
deduction anyway I may have gone through
31:24
how it is social engineering how it was
31:26
ineffective social engineering if you do
31:28
happen to agree with that the purpose
31:29
was good it didn’t work in any way it
31:31
raises the price for everybody else it
31:33
raises rent costs which is most people’s
31:35
largest expense so you’re taking money
31:37
right out of people’s wallets because it
31:39
subsidizes one behavior and it
31:42
inherently punishes others because the
31:44
spending of government will remain the
31:46
same and they’re since they’re losing
31:48
all of this tax revenue from a
31:50
particular group of people they’re just
31:51
getting it from either others or adding
31:54
it on to the debt which is just taxing
31:55
future generations
31:56
it is extremely regressive because this
31:59
is a particular benefit the only people
32:00
in the higher income brackets are able
32:02
to take advantage of while they’re
32:04
renting class does not get to have this
32:07
advantage they must pay the full price
32:09
for their housing which as I said
32:11
earlier is more expensive because of
32:13
this it is also like I said this is
32:16
gonna sound hysterical because everybody
32:19
thinks that
32:20
you know bring race into anything is
32:21
hysterical but it’s it is just a factual
32:24
reality in America that racism infects
32:27
almost every sector of society that
32:30
deeply includes home ownership if you
32:32
look at home ownership rates between
32:34
white or maybe Asian families and black
32:37
or Latino families the there’s a huge
32:40
disparity in that and they’re literally
32:43
you could do a 12-part lecture series on
32:45
why that is a lot of it has to do with
32:48
you know Jim Crow laws and redlining and
32:50
all things like that but the fact of the
32:52
matter is that black homeownership is
32:55
tremendously lower so it you could
32:57
pretty much almost say that this is just
32:59
a subsidy for white people because
33:01
that’s how home ownership crossed you
33:04
know cuts across society is it is
33:06
overwhelmingly white people and maybe
33:09
Asian people who owned homes not black
33:11
people or Latino people so that’s you
33:14
know also a reason that we should oppose
33:15
it and like I said it encourages very
33:18
bad fiscal behavior that threatens the
33:20
entire economy that we saw this in the
33:22
2008 housing bubble crash that was the
33:25
greatest recession scene since the Great
33:27
Depression and this encourages that to
33:29
happen again by you know incentivizing
33:32
people to take out a larger loan than
33:34
they can really afford because the cost
33:35
of it is artificially lowered by a
33:37
government subsidy it you know
33:40
discourages people from doing the
33:41
responsible thing and saving up a larger
33:43
down payment it you know you could put
33:45
$5,000 down and get a $400,000 house and
33:50
have a mortgage payment and you’ll be
33:51
okay with that because oh you know buddy
33:53
you know the interest on it I can deduct
33:56
from my taxable income so why shouldn’t
33:58
I do that then when you know the payment
34:02
is so high if you lose your job or
34:04
something like that or you know anything
34:06
else unexpected happens and you can’t
34:07
make that payment that gives you no
34:10
significant chance to default on that
34:12
loan and if people do that and mass that
34:14
creates you know a very large problem
34:16
for the American economy as we saw
34:19
another bad thing about is this is I
34:22
guess more related to your zoning issue
34:24
kind of that you brought up it’s that
34:27
you know just it again I have no problem
34:30
with single-family home ownership and I
34:31
plan to be one so I don’t want to
34:33
I’m I don’t want to appear hypocritical
34:35
on this or anything but just still
34:37
government government encouraging
34:40
single-family ownership is not good it
34:43
should just if you want to do it on a
34:45
free marketplace with all costs that
34:47
would be naturally occurring in a free
34:49
marketplace that’s fine but when you’re
34:53
encouraging single-family ownership that
34:54
encourages you know the kind of thing
34:56
that could leads to urban sprawl which
34:59
creates worse commuter times and more
35:01
carbon pollution and less efficient use
35:04
of land and more expensive rents and all
35:08
of the rest of it and that’s just
35:10
there’s a huge ripple effect from this
35:13
issue that does not sound very
35:14
interesting or exciting or sexy but it
35:17
really does have quite an impact on
35:18
society and there are numerous reasons
35:21
that libertarians should oppose it I’m
35:23
sure that there are a lot of people you
35:24
could get the argument from better than
35:26
me I didn’t prepare at all for this and
35:28
I’m just you know kind of shooting from
35:30
the hip and probably don’t sound very
35:32
well articulate articulated right now
35:34
but you had two weeks yeah but I didn’t
35:39
prepare for it well next time you should
35:43
yeah two weeks I mean at least your
35:44
computer works so for that reason alone
35:46
with the reason so alright I guess the
35:48
only thing I would add I’m I’m sure this
35:50
is a rebuttal and I’m not sure that you
35:52
would even disagree with this if you
35:54
were going to advocate for getting rid
35:56
of the mortgage interest deduction
35:58
I would recommend coupling it with what
36:01
you would put tax reduction or deduction
36:05
or whatever you would replace it with
36:06
being something that’s more across the
36:09
board and I guess for lack of a better
36:10
word egalitarian as opposed to just
36:12
telling a bunch of homeowners you don’t
36:14
get to have your deduction anymore
36:16
instead saying everyone would be able to
36:19
get either this reduction or deduction
36:22
or credit or whatever
36:23
I made an enormity of utopian sense I I
36:27
don’t even support an income tax at all
36:29
I think it’ll be abolished in its
36:31
entirety in a very long run kind of a
36:34
sense but in the short run there should
36:36
not be any you know particular behavior
36:38
of the government is encouraging or
36:39
discouraging however Wyatt it cuts
36:42
across the society whether it’s
36:43
something that 90% of people do they
36:45
still should not be encouraging or just
36:47
edging that particular behavior because
36:49
it still has all of the negative you
36:51
know market impacting effects that I’ve
36:53
mentioned here and everything so it’s
36:55
it’s it I don’t want to replace one bad
36:59
policy with another bad policy that just
37:01
happens to help more people than it
37:03
currently does we just shouldn’t have
37:05
things like this special cut out special
37:08
carve outs that help particular
37:10
industries and hurt other particular
37:11
industries to encourage specific
37:13
behaviors and discourage others and
37:15
distort the markets in the process we
37:16
just should not have anything like that
37:18
if we are going to you know want to
37:21
lower people’s taxes which I do we
37:23
should be lowering taxes after we lower
37:25
spending because lowering taxes without
37:27
lowering spending is just increasing
37:29
taxes on future generations okay fair
37:33
enough
37:34
so okay cool so guys you now get to
37:39
decide who you thought won this debate
37:42
do you think it was do you think that
37:44
Sam won this debate do you think that TJ
37:47
who whose computer bricked very early do
37:51
you think he won this debate by not
37:52
being here or do you think house he won
37:55
maybe thought house e1 I don’t know um
37:57
so now that we’ve moved on before we go
38:01
to the follower follower questions as
38:05
you may or may not know Sam and my
38:08
lovely followers we had a very
38:11
interesting thing happen earlier today
38:12
where your very own spike Cohen was on a
38:17
local news program and because we have
38:20
the time for it I’m gonna go ahead and
38:23
show that now and I want to get your
38:27
thoughts on this on this program to eat
38:30
Sam so I’m gonna put this on right Oh
38:34
goes well this man could be on the
38:36
ballot November yeah can you hear that
38:38
no I can see it but they tell you
38:46
they’re riding ponies into a zombie
38:48
power to future but in okay all right so
38:51
we’re gonna start that over again this
38:52
is the this is my this is my thing and
38:57
I’m gonna get your thoughts on this
39:00
nope all goes well this man could be on
39:03
the ballot in November
39:04
yeah abc15 dick pepid onus is live with
39:06
the studio to show us I still can’t hear
39:08
it you can’t hear it he’s using to
39:11
deliver his message they tell you
39:13
they’re riding ponies into a zombie
39:15
powered future but an interview in spike
39:17
Cohen’s living room has given them
39:18
nothing all had turned its volume up
39:21
loud and still nothing all goes well
39:30
this man could be on the ballot in
39:31
November
39:32
yeah ABC 15 to dick pepper doughnuts is
39:34
live at the studio did you hear now the
39:36
unconventional strategy he’s using to
39:38
deliver his message they tell you about
39:41
riding ponies into a zombie power to
39:44
future but an interview in spike Cohen’s
39:45
living room has given them a serious
39:47
political platform are you recording I
39:51
you’re not hearing this
39:52
no well that’s alright Doug crawl says
39:59
house he won the debate but spike won
40:01
our hearts so that’s one for house he
40:03
but we’ll see who else gets it so I’m
40:06
gonna go through some of these other
40:07
questions that came in from followers
40:11
number one of course whenever I have any
40:16
question follower question session this
40:19
comes in Sam
40:22
Waffle House or I haunt I live in the
40:26
Pacific Northwest and I’ve never been to
40:27
a Waffle House so that’s the wrong
40:31
answer
40:32
the answer is Waffle House um whoa I’ll
40:35
give it to Waffle House anyway though
40:37
because Waffle House seems like it has
40:39
more kind of unique cultural value than
40:41
IHOP like Waffle House has like a
40:44
distinct regional identity to it kind of
40:46
a culture about i UPS literally just
40:48
like a chain restaurant so I’ll give it
40:51
to Waffle House anyway okay good that’s
40:53
the right answer
40:54
and then here was one that a follower
40:56
asked are you voting for spike for
40:59
vice-president and why not ouch
41:02
absolutely not no even if I get the
41:05
knowledge do you will you come with up
41:08
as a package with vermin don’t you I
41:11
mean it it just I I don’t know how this
41:13
is being
41:14
they just said are you voting for spike
41:15
as vice president so I guess you can
41:18
take that however you want to a man if
41:19
it’s a literal question I’m not probably
41:21
going to be there to vote anyway so this
41:24
would just have to be it kind of in
41:26
spirit thing and I who else is even
41:28
running for vice president here the only
41:30
candidate I know of so it was me and
41:33
John Phillips jr. and Jeff wood they
41:36
drummed out right yeah john phillips and
41:38
kim roth dropped out and kim endorsed me
41:40
and john didn’t endorse anyone because
41:42
he’s an LNC member and didn’t want to be
41:44
seen as showing favoritism so it’s me
41:48
and Jeff wood I don’t know who he is to
41:52
see like a miser sky or is he like a
41:54
Tsar war kind of guy he is
41:56
he currently has the nomination from the
41:59
socialist caucus and the audacious
42:01
caucus
42:02
no thank you so then you support me
42:06
among those traces I support oh yeah so
42:09
would you vote for me in the general if
42:11
I get the nomination like the general
42:15
election against the Democrats and
42:17
Republicans yes
42:19
well again are you a package with vermin
42:22
because I’m not voting for Herman so you
42:25
wouldn’t vote for vermin over Donald
42:27
Trump and say Joe Biden no okay so
42:33
assuming you’re someone you would want
42:36
as the president pick gets the
42:40
nomination and I get the VP pick would
42:45
you vote for me I would like this is the
42:49
answer that you want to hear and it’s
42:50
not fun for your audience but I would
42:52
honestly hope that in the case that we
42:53
actually got just on Amash to run for
42:57
president anyone our nomination which he
42:59
obviously would I would hope that you
43:01
would have the decency to step aside and
43:03
have him kind of pick somebody that he
43:05
wants us as running mate because I think
43:06
that you know that you would harm the
43:08
ticket by not having an experience of
43:10
being a goofball you’re a fun podcast
43:12
host but you are not qualified to be a
43:15
vice presidential candidate especially
43:17
next to somebody like Justin Amash you
43:19
heard it here folks
43:20
that is a full-on support for the vermin
43:22
spike 2020 ticket from none other than
43:24
Sam Coppinger of libertarian memes for
43:27
Neil
43:27
Merl teens so the next follower question
43:31
was bound to be a real hootenanny but
43:34
now TJ’s not here but I’ll go ahead and
43:36
get your thoughts on it and and then I
43:39
guess we can because I think that was Oh
43:44
Steven Messina you have a new fan with
43:47
Steven Messina who says that you effing
43:50
rule and thank you have clearly not been
43:55
to a Waffle House so let’s see here um
43:59
so yeah so here’s the last question
44:02
which I’m just gonna let you answer it
44:04
because again this was gonna be a big
44:05
debate question but now it’s not because
44:07
it’s just you what are your thoughts on
44:09
the Mises caucus negative like I feel
44:17
like most of the people who are watching
44:19
probably already know me and probably
44:21
already know my opinions of the is it me
44:23
sisters of Isis is it Mises so my
44:26
understanding is that it’s Mises I don’t
44:30
like that that sounds worse that was
44:35
named was said is they with Ludwig von
44:37
Mises so you hate it more because it’s
44:40
Mises and not Mises that’s it’s less
44:44
satisfying I don’t like the sound of
44:47
Mesa Selleck mices better okay we’ll say
44:49
Mises I do not like the Beezus caucus
44:52
even though on actual policy I probably
44:55
agree with them at least 90% but there’s
44:58
a lot more to politics than just sheer
45:01
policy positions and I have never really
45:04
gotten a clear answer from anybody in
45:06
the Mises caucus either the ones who I
45:07
think are the the less malicious members
45:10
of it of what exactly its purpose is
45:13
supposed to be because the actual policy
45:15
positions of it are already shared by
45:17
the libertarian party itself we it’s
45:19
already a very very radical capitalist
45:22
party a very you know radical
45:25
libertarian party and it shares
45:29
virtually the exact same platform as the
45:31
caucus does so that leaves the only
45:33
differentiating factor being their kind
45:36
of branding and strategy which is very
45:39
clearly just to appeal
45:41
two disaffected paleo conservatives and
45:44
they outright that’s just literally the
45:45
only logical purpose of what it is for
45:48
that’s not you know a slander it’s it’s
45:50
logically the only thing that it is
45:53
there to accomplish because anything
45:55
else that it it could be distinguished
45:59
by is already shared by the party itself
46:01
that is the only differentiating factor
46:02
between the Libertarian Party and the
46:04
Mises caucus is that the Mises caucus
46:07
uses branding that is appealing to the
46:10
all right so then the fact that it’s
46:14
pronounced Mises doesn’t inspire you to
46:17
say that you love me says two pieces now
46:21
it doesn’t that’s I have heard that
46:25
actual Mises himself is not nearly as
46:29
bad as the caucus is and that the caucus
46:31
really you know has done him dirty by
46:33
dragging his name through the mud Bob of
46:35
the caucus and the Institute combined
46:37
have really disgraced his legacy but Sam
46:44
I know you’re young but the thing is
46:46
you’re gonna learn soon that you have to
46:49
find joy in things and I think you
46:51
missed out on a real opportunity with
46:53
rhyming there I’m not gonna lie I just
46:56
think I just think your politics isn’t
46:59
supposed to be about fun well I disagree
47:02
and I think that’s why I’m currently the
47:04
front because that’s yeah because you’re
47:08
you are the front-runner because all of
47:10
the other white boys in the Libertarian
47:13
Party who don’t actually care about
47:15
politics and don’t aren’t affected by
47:17
any kind of a policy one way or another
47:18
don’t have anything to lose by just
47:21
voting for who they think is fun rather
47:23
than who will actually make an impact on
47:25
their lives kids and cages on the border
47:27
don’t have that that luxury okay but
47:31
okay so now we’re actually having a
47:33
debate because I haven’t just been going
47:37
and having fun with white boys although
47:39
that is largely what these conventions
47:41
are about but I will say that I mean
47:43
I’ve been going and doing tours in
47:45
marginalized communities where I don’t
47:47
do the fun stick and talk with them
47:49
about the things that are affecting them
47:51
and it’s been very well received so I
47:53
mean I go in with a humorous attitude
47:55
about it but I don’t go in and talk
47:57
about cheesy butter or Badgers or
47:59
anything like that
48:00
and it’s been very well received because
48:02
I’m going there and demonstrating an
48:04
empathy that no other party or candidate
48:06
has shown in their in their community
48:08
that the other ones are afraid to go
48:09
there so I would dispute that I think
48:13
that yeah well that’s that part that
48:15
part’s great but why do you do the
48:16
Badgers and cheesy bread the rest of the
48:18
time because that just undermines
48:21
everything that you’re doing by reaching
48:22
out to these marginalized communities
48:24
because when you do the Badger Badgers
48:26
and cheesy bread that just ensures that
48:27
you won’t actually accomplish any of the
48:29
changes that you’re asking these people
48:31
you know that they want that they can
48:35
tell you what you want you could learn
48:36
what they want you can you know sit down
48:38
with them and have a long discussion
48:39
about what would help them but you’re
48:41
not going to accomplish any of that if
48:42
you’re talking about Badgers and cheesy
48:44
bread to the general public but you say
48:46
that and yet I’m getting more engagement
48:48
than any other candidate running and and
48:51
and in the way the limit in the Waco
48:54
that’s in the workers John Phillips
48:55
dropping out no one else stepped in
48:57
because apparently I’ve become the
49:00
consensus candidate and I’m as I will
49:01
say I am as shocked as anyone else that
49:05
I’ve become the consensus candidate
49:07
apparently but I have and to say
49:11
simultaneously oh well it’s just because
49:14
people are enjoying that and also well
49:16
it’s not gonna get any results it’s
49:18
gotten results so if I’m able to for the
49:21
people that sense you say it hasn’t put
49:24
any results within the Libertarian Party
49:27
primary system are absolutely
49:30
meaninglessly and significant it’s even
49:34
among libertarians there’s maybe like 1%
49:37
participating in any way formal or
49:40
informal in this process and that that’s
49:43
among libertarians who themselves are a
49:45
statistically insignificant portion of
49:47
the general public what happens within
49:49
the libertarian party has literally no
49:52
impact or representation or significance
49:55
whatsoever of the general public in it
49:58
so then in that occasion why or results
50:00
among candidates or policy positions or
50:02
anything nothing that libertarians do
50:04
within the party has any relevance to
50:07
the general public
50:08
within the party in and of itself no but
50:10
what assuming if I got the nomination
50:12
then I would actually have an
50:14
opportunity to reach out to people and
50:15
if you’re if you’re talking about you
50:17
know if your response to that because
50:18
you made some valid points there but if
50:20
then if your response is that we need to
50:22
nominate someone who is currently in
50:24
trouble posit being able to possibly get
50:26
reelected in his own home district how
50:28
is that somehow a substantive positive
50:31
change of someone who in your I guess I
50:34
assume in your mind is someone that’s
50:36
going to be making this this amazing
50:38
positive change if the fact that just in
50:40
a mash would not suck up to trump is
50:43
enough for him to not be able to
50:44
possibly get reelected in his own
50:46
district what would make you think that
50:48
he would be any more able to effect
50:53
positive change on a cultural or
50:54
societal level than someone like averman
50:56
supreme who already is a household name
50:58
among many people for what i could dare
51:02
guarantee you that more people know
51:03
justin amash than firmance supreme
51:05
that’s that’s actually factually
51:07
incorrect I mean there’s multiple layer
51:09
I believe you it’s it’s not even close
51:12
actually I mean that they did the
51:14
recognition of of Justin um between
51:16
Justin Amash and vermin supreme within
51:18
political circles there’s probably a
51:20
slight number that know him better
51:21
within general societal circles it’s not
51:24
even close I mean we we blame there is
51:25
no who Amash is they do not know who
51:27
Furman supreme is Hara nobody knows who
51:31
Furman supreme is it’ll be one hundred
51:33
thirty votes well you’re saying nobody
51:36
under thirty votes and that’s certainly
51:37
not true but everyone on the
51:39
exaggeration but the proportion of
51:42
people under 30 who vote is dramatically
51:45
lower than the proportion of people over
51:47
30 who voted is that more statistically
51:49
acceptable for you it is but how much of
51:52
that is because the options that they’re
51:53
being given our garbage to them and that
51:56
they’re they see this people don’t care
51:58
and that’s the same kind of people who
52:00
support somebody like vermin supreme is
52:02
the people who don’t care if they don’t
52:05
rely to see the fur hair they don’t
52:06
carry important to lose they don’t they
52:08
don’t stand a they’re not engaged and
52:10
they just think it’s funny they don’t
52:11
know anything about politics they
52:13
probably this is just what you want
52:17
that’s one or the other
52:18
either the people who like firm and
52:20
supreme are completely unengaged and
52:21
have nothing to do
52:22
or the people who support vermin supreme
52:24
are the hyper engaged who are involved
52:26
in the Libertarian Party at a level that
52:29
the vast majority of libertarians aren’t
52:30
which is it that he’s the hyper engaged
52:33
like him or the unengaged like him
52:36
the people who are engaged in the
52:38
Libertarian Party are not engaged in
52:42
national politics generally there’s a
52:45
very small crossover there the
52:47
Libertarian Party is mostly a social
52:49
club of people who would do not feel
52:51
that they belong in either party and
52:53
that even includes me if I know
52:55
everybody thinks that I’m an
52:56
establishment goon obviously there’s a
52:58
reason that I’m in with this party and
52:59
not the other two and that’s because I
53:01
do not feel that I belong in either of
53:03
them and that’s but that’s who
53:05
libertarians are as people who don’t
53:07
feel that they belong in the amount the
53:10
proportion of people in the Libertarian
53:12
Party who even engaged in national
53:14
politics outside of the Libertarian
53:16
Party is it not very significant so you
53:20
could be hyper engaged in the party and
53:22
still disengaged from national politics
53:25
most of your supporters right now
53:27
probably won’t even vote you’re you’re
53:29
that’s patently false but the the the
53:33
the the people that are making up the
53:35
Libertarian Party are hyper engaged they
53:38
are largely ineffective because the
53:40
party is so small but they represent a
53:43
group of people they stat skew younger
53:46
and skew more cerebral and skew more you
53:49
know disaffected by that by the
53:51
disaffected and and disengaged with the
53:54
overall system because they see it as a
53:56
joke there is a whole demographic of
53:59
people that could get us to five percent
54:01
or even ten percent based just on people
54:03
who innately know that the system is a
54:06
joke and don’t participate in it because
54:07
of that and have no real idea that
54:09
there’s anything like a libertarian
54:11
party that has any viable chance if you
54:13
give them something that that you know
54:16
if you give something that speaks to
54:17
them on an innate level like for example
54:19
this whole thing is a joke so we’re
54:21
gonna give you the biggest clown and
54:22
we’re the walls so now that you’ve got
54:24
we’ve got your attention we’re going to
54:25
talk to you about what libertarianism is
54:27
that has a much better chance than
54:29
saying here is yet another retired
54:31
Republican who has no shot and we all
54:33
know it and he’s going to take one last
54:35
tilt that the old
54:36
before retiring because you know he no
54:38
longer represents what Republicans you
54:41
know currently believe and so he’s gonna
54:43
use our party as a you know a step down
54:45
to retirement and why would that be if
54:48
if you’re saying if you’re surrendering
54:51
that you know we’re gonna be ineffectual
54:52
not be able to make any real change then
54:54
why not go for you know a Hail Mary
54:56
dress not surrendering that you were the
54:59
one surrendering that I am not
55:01
surrendering that that’s why I want to
55:03
run correct qualified credible
55:05
candidates who actually could if they
55:08
were elected do the job when people the
55:10
general public when they beget over the
55:12
hinges somebody is not qualified to do
55:14
the job they’re not going to vote for
55:15
them to do that job this group of
55:18
disaffected 21 year olds who you just
55:20
want to vote because because you’re fun
55:22
or because oh there’s politics as a joke
55:25
that’s not going to ever ever ever win
55:29
an election literally never those people
55:31
are not going to vote anyway they don’t
55:33
vote now they’re not going to vote
55:35
anyway they’re not significant we
55:36
shouldn’t even be concerned about them
55:38
I’m not interested in even trying to
55:40
appeal to those kinds of people you’re
55:42
talking about 46% of vote you of all
55:45
people who are saying that you know
55:46
there’s all this intrusion in the market
55:49
by government that is marginalizing
55:51
people for you know the benefit of a
55:54
twin dling group of privileged people
55:56
are saying that we should completely
55:58
ignore the 40 percent 46 percent of
56:00
eligible voters not to mention a large
56:02
percentage of the the 54 percent who do
56:05
vote who are just voting because they’re
56:06
not even aware that there’s a viable
56:07
alternative that we should just
56:09
completely ignore them in favor of doing
56:11
the strategy that for the last 50 almost
56:14
50 years has not gotten a single
56:16
statewide or federal victory for the
56:19
Libertarian Party which is we’re gonna
56:21
follow Bert arias already has some
56:22
networking strategy that I want every
56:32
other one has done before that how was
56:33
Justin Amash gonna be a massive
56:35
departure from a Gary Johnson in in what
56:38
way is is yet another lizardy Lena
56:40
Republican gonna be an easy one and I
56:42
reject the notion that Gary Johnson was
56:45
a failure he was absolutely blew out of
56:47
the water our approval
56:49
vote totals he was by a immense margin
56:52
there was a successful candidate at
56:53
libertarian history and which is similar
56:56
just at a Bosch can can piggyback on
56:59
that because I love Gary but we all know
57:02
that he was goofy and he didn’t speak
57:04
well and he came across as uninformed
57:07
whether that was true or not
57:09
I think he’s a very smart person but he
57:11
was very very poor at communicating that
57:14
whereas Justin Amash did not he’s
57:15
extremely well-spoken he doesn’t act
57:18
goofy yet nobody could say that he’s
57:20
unqualified unknowledgeable you know
57:24
non-credible he’s extremely well-versed
57:29
intellectual politician whoever they’re
57:34
never gonna hear about him how would a
57:35
Gary John so you just contradicted
57:37
yourself you said that we needed serious
57:39
candidates and the proof of that is Gary
57:41
Johnson who had blew out as you said
57:42
previous vote records but he blew it out
57:45
being as you called him a goofy person
57:47
who didn’t speak well so which is it we
57:49
need we we need a goofy person who
57:51
doesn’t speak oh he was serious and that
57:54
he had elected experience he was a
57:56
two-term governor as was weld and he had
57:59
credible elected experience his
58:02
personality was unfortunately a weakness
58:05
he’s a great person that honestly that
58:07
he is such a great person as part of why
58:09
he was not more successful because you
58:11
have to be kind of a jerk to succeed in
58:14
politics but it’s you can’t say you
58:17
can’t have that both way because it
58:18
literally is both ways he was a serious
58:21
candidate in that he had elected
58:23
experience but he was not as serious as
58:25
he could have been because he isn’t a
58:26
good speaker and acts like a goofball he
58:28
is he got elected as a pothead e.type
58:34
goofball so I mean that that’s sort of I
58:37
mean we can do this all day long and I’m
58:39
okay with agreeing to disagree with you
58:40
but I lovingly encourage you Sam to
58:43
examine some of your precepts here in
58:45
terms of what is considered respectable
58:47
I don’t think respectable is this you
58:50
know a eight 20th century formal
58:53
business aesthetic combined with a a
58:56
sober August anchormen stone if it was
59:00
then we wouldn’t have a bright orange
59:02
president who
59:03
you said a little growl and gold plates
59:05
everyone okay let’s let’s address that
59:07
but if you are in one of the two major
59:10
parties you can afford to deviate from
59:13
that kind of norm you can you know AOC
59:16
is nothing like that she’s very loud and
59:18
outspoken and post memes on the internet
59:21
and she has all this grassroots support
59:22
and she you know class back get people
59:25
on Twitter all the time and she could do
59:26
that or Trump eat it I don’t need to
59:29
even say anything about Trump they are
59:31
both in the two major parties they
59:33
already have a base of 40 million
59:35
supporters most of whom are going to
59:38
vote for literally anybody of their
59:40
party who is on the ballot we do not
59:42
have that luxury the only way that we
59:44
can appeal to people is by showing them
59:47
that we are actually a credible third
59:48
option and so that’s the literally the
59:51
most important possible thing that we
59:54
can do is show that we are a valid
59:57
credible qualified legitimate third
60:00
option that is the absolute most
60:03
important thing that the party could
60:05
possibly do is portray us as a valid
60:08
credible option and that means a comical
60:12
level of seriousness and credibility and
60:17
well-spoken as’ and it’s not like when a
60:21
republican it does something you know
60:24
funny and silly that’s like oh that’s
60:26
fun because that’s not what you expect
60:28
from them but that is what people expect
60:30
from us and it’s not it’s not fun to see
60:32
people that you think are goofy idiots
60:34
acting like goofy idiots it’s fun to see
60:37
people who are normally well-spoken and
60:39
serious and you know all put together at
60:42
everything it’s fun to see those people
60:44
act like goofy idiots when it’s just the
60:47
goofy idiot party at nobody is impressed
60:49
by us acting like goofy idiots no one’s
60:51
impressed by us at all because they
60:53
don’t know we exist I I will I will
60:57
leave you with that and I will also say
61:00
that I think when when 3.25% is our
61:04
blowout
61:05
I think after 50 years at this point the
61:08
Republicans as a as a previous third
61:10
party was already a dominant party and I
61:12
think we can we can possibly maybe
61:14
deviate from the script I will
61:16
excu this as your last question when
61:18
vermin and I do get the nomination what
61:20
are you going to name your pony not even
61:25
gonna answer that but once again it you
61:27
say deviate from the script we have
61:29
never run the script that I want to run
61:32
you keep acting like I want a
61:33
continuation of the status quo of the
61:35
Libertarian Party literally it never
61:37
before somewhat 2012 and 2016 have they
61:42
done anything like what I would want us
61:44
to do what okay we’re gonna do something
61:48
radically different that Sam wants which
61:50
is to find a retired Republican who
61:52
can’t win their seat back because they
61:54
went against the Republican orthodoxy
61:57
we’re gonna name your pony kipper
62:01
because when people don’t name their
62:02
pony we give them names that they
62:04
otherwise wouldn’t want so guys thanks
62:07
again for tuning in for this episode of
62:08
the mortgage interest deduction jam we
62:11
are sorry that it didn’t actually happen
62:13
and we hope that next time we’re gonna
62:15
we’re gonna get TJ a new iPad or
62:18
something to try to get it to work right
62:19
um
62:21
so Sam I’m gonna give you one last
62:23
chance to say you’re gonna vote for me
62:27
no I’m gonna give you one last chance to
62:28
give whatever final thoughts you have on
62:30
whatever you want to talk about plug
62:32
whatever you want for your show and then
62:34
we are going to we’re going to sign out
62:36
Sam I give you the floor by merch
62:41
mortgage interest deduction is bad we
62:44
need to run credible candidates that’s
62:46
the the gist of what’s happened here
62:50
agree possibly wrong Sam thanks again
62:54
for tuning in you’re always an absolute
62:55
pleasure to have on stick around I’m
62:57
going to talk with you during the intro
62:58
guys thanks again for tuning in for this
63:00
absolutely blessed mess of an episode
63:04
actually it went well it was really the
63:07
only problem was that TJ’s things
63:09
stopped working
63:10
but yeah thanks for tuning in tonight
63:13
and now it’s up to you again to decide
63:15
who won this mortgage interest deduction
63:17
jam was it how’s he the house was it Sam
63:22
Coppinger who was the only one who spoke
63:24
or was it TJ who liked house II just
63:28
watched so guys
63:30
again for be sure to comment with who
63:32
you thought one and we will release the
63:34
winner tomorrow night also be sure to
63:37
tune in next week Tuesday night at 8:00
63:39
Eastern for the muddied waters of
63:41
freedom where Matt Wright and I will
63:44
parse through the week’s events with the
63:47
cheer and a plum of the sweet winter
63:50
wonder boys that we are also next week I
63:53
will not be having an episode of my
63:54
fellow Americans I will be getting ready
63:55
for my new hampshire primary tour with
63:58
the vermin spike 2020 campaign and we
64:01
will be going live multiple times the
64:03
following week during the New Hampshire
64:04
primary as we will be trolling the
64:06
entire process on our way to becoming
64:08
Sam’s pick for president and vice
64:11
president of these United States Sam by
64:15
saying nothing has acknowledged this
64:16
guys thanks again for tuning in we will
64:19
see you next week and god bless you
64:23
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