I'm John Batchel with my good colleague, Gene Marks, small business columnist for The Guardian,

for the Philadelphia Inquirer, writing at the Hill, writing at other distinguished publications,

and publishing his articles eventually on his medium channel.

And this one captures my imagination.

Three major reasons why Donald Trump's second term will benefit my business and

increased profits. Okay, Gene, the stage is yours. All right. And I always start out these

conversations. I wrote this for Entrepreneur magazine. And I always start this conversation out saying,

listen, you know, this is an article written in a vacuum. Okay. I get it. There are a lot of,

a lot of a lot of

your reasons why people support or did not support you know President Trump's

you know candidacy I get all of that but we're just talking in a vacuum for

business so the title of this column was you know why it will benefit my business

and increase profits and there are three main reasons that I have. One is

overall taxes. I've been terrified that if Trump did not win election, the plans were to let some of

his major parts of his tax cuts and job act of 2017 expire, which would mean a big bump in taxes,

not only for me, but for many small businesses, the qualified business income tax deduction is for

pass-throughs. That's a 20% deduction on income. That would have gone away. Standard deduction

individuals would have decreased. Rates themselves would have increased so the fact

that that's not the case yeah he does have control of congress it is it is very likely improbable

that that most of these big provisions are going to be extended even made permanent and uh you know

listen i'm happy about that because the less i pay in taxes, you know, the better.

I just, that's what it is.

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