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Mailbag:  One listener writes, “hey so interesting discussion about raffles in the church. I suspect the church’s policy has nothing to do with the morality of raffles and more to do with their legal non Profit status." Here is what the church says in the handbook. Here is what the church says about games of chance. President Hinckley had strong language about games of chance.  Here is a fun story from The Friend

Matt is up first this week. For some reason, Laura Loomer spends more time with Donald Trump than his wife does. She is a white supremacist and an Islamophobe, and she has been traveling with Trump not only to rallies but to the presidential debate. Would it be morally wrong to support a candidate for president who surrounds himself with such despicable people?

Next up, Sam.  How much do presidential debates matter?

Finally, Shawn. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act, signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1984, required all states to set their alcoholic drinking age at 21 years old or risk losing some amount of federal funding for highway construction. The threat worked. All states moved quite quickly to comply with the law. Because transportation funding is often "must-pass" legislation in Congress, lawmakers may be able to tag on a provision intended to force states and cities to make building homes easier. "States with high-price, low-construction counties would have to figure out how to overrule local zoning codes themselves or lose federal transportation funding." Skyrocketing home prices and rents are largely a result of a severe shortage of housing. Should young lds couples be concerned about not being able to own a home until much later in life? Would local deregulation of building restrictions be a good solution? 

The Big Question:  It was clear in the debate this week is that after nine years of talking about health care, Donald Trump still does not have a health care plan. He has some concepts he is thinking about. I think we should take this opportunity to help Donald Trump develop a good health care plan. This link explains the US healthcare system. I think that there are two big flaws with the US healthcare system. One, health insurance is tied to employment, and two, the federal government pays for the most expensive costs in the health system. That is Medicare, Medicaid and the military are covered under U.S. government health insurance. Those are the people who are most likely to use health care, and they those are the people with healthcare costs that are probably the most expensive. One solution to both of the