Posted on 08/11/2024 4:15:56 AM PDT by Libloather
Kamala Harris has stolen one of Donald Trump's key campaign promises to stop taxing tips given to service workers.
Harris revealed she was copying the flagship Trump policy at a rally in Las Vegas Saturday night.
She told attendees her government will 'eliminate taxes on tips for hospitality and service utility workers.'
The announcement drew huge applause.
Trump himself attacked Kamala in a post on Truth Social, asking: 'How long will it be before Kamala Harris comes out with another “TRUMP” policy like, “No Taxes will be paid by our Senior Citizens on Social Security?”
'She’s looking really bad now! Everyone is waiting to see what idea, or policy of mine, she will copy next.'
And Team Trump was also quick to point out that Harris' idea is not an original one, and even suggested she was lying about her vow to implement it.
'Kamala just announced she is stealing President Trump's "NO TAX ON TIPS" proposal,' a spokesperson posted on X.
'But like everything else she says, it's a pure political calculation she'll never actually do — but President Trump WILL.'
Anti-woke campaigner Robby Starbuck wrote on X: 'Kamala is now stealing Trump’s policies in an attempt to get votes. No tax on tips was his proposal that he’s been talking about all year.
'No intelligent person will trust a word she says since she flip flops more than a fish out of water.'
And conservative commentator Charlie Kirk said: 'Unreal! Kamala just stole President Trump’s no tax on tips. What a shameless phony.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Talk is cheap... H has a track record of undelivered “promises”
Trump is handling this wrong. Yes, point out that she’s trying to copy your policy but she also added increasing the national minimum wage which would kill tips altogether, not to mwntion kill jobs. She can’t even copy good policy correctly!
Trump has already suggested getting rid of income tax. It’s the right thing if you ask me. Shrink the federal government, substantially. You’re not taxing your way into solvency.
Because the policy of the Biden Harris administration is to crack down on tip taxes...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-irs-plans-crack-down-waiters-tips.amp
The first idea she’s ever had and it was Trump’s.
She has never accomplished anything in her life other than pleasing men like Willie Brown.
But didn’t Shit-for-Brains Biden recently say “his administration” was going to “Crack down” on service workers’ who are paid in tips?
You actually believe President Trump is pandering? Thanks Whoopi...
I don’t remember Trump saying we should get rid of all income tax. When other politicians say we should get rid of all income tax, they usually combine it with raising the sales tax, which is a very bad idea because it hurts lower-income people much more than the wealthy. Let’s not confuse the issue here.
John 8:44
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
“Maybe Kamal ought to resign the veep slot? Can’t have it both ways!”
Sure they can. Leftist liars always have it both ways. It’s how they roll. First they, big government, enact rules, regulations and/or taxes that screw up things. Then, they promise to swoop in to fix the problems that they, big government, have created. (ie both ways)
Big difference... Trump will actually keep his promise... Kamala is full of it, and will likely increase taxes.
Yeah that’s the ticket
Kamala Harris
Shrinking the federal government and cracking down on waste are not credible responses. The federal budget is dominated by Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, debt service and national defense, plus other entitlements. Discretionary domestic spending is a small part of the budget, and it is the part of the budget that isn't growing out of control. We can squeeze the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the air traffic control system, HUD, Commerce, federal law enforcement, etc., and there are many useful reforms that should be made. Yes, there are whole agencies that I would be happy to abolish, with short term savings in the tens of billions of dollars (part of which would be offset by the devolution of these functions back to the states). But the maximum savings we can squeeze out there are pencil dust compared to the debt problem.
National defense is the only big budget component that has been on a long term decline curve as a percentage of spending and the GDP. Many freepers can remember when defense spending was over 50 percent of the federal budget and over ten percent of GDP. But that was before Medicare and Medicaid, before the Ponzi scheme math of Social Security had started to bite, before food stamps, and before LBJ put the welfare state on a COLA and automatic growth was baked into the cake.
Either we deal with entitlements or we go bankrupt.
And if we get rid of the income tax, what do we replace it with? I've always been partial to a consumed income tax, but that is a hybridized form of the income tax. The several varieties of flat taxes that people offer up would be better than the monstrosity that we have now, but they are still income taxes. Straight consumption taxes? A European style VAT? Wealth taxes? Excise taxes on Hunter Biden paintings? (I like that idea. Should be worth trillions.)
At a minimum we should eliminate the dual income tax, which means eliminating the separate corporate income tax and taxing corporate income when it is realized as dividends or capital gains. Nothing would escape the tax net, but the taxes would be paid via the individual income tax, not camouflaged through the maze of the corporate tax code. Build from there.
So what does Trump propose? I'm sure he'll say it's amazing and beautiful, so much so that we won't believe how good it is and that it will kickstart the economy into growth that you wouldn't believe. Trump starts with hyperbole and then goes into orbit. Does he actually have a tax reform plan? He wants to make his first term tax cuts permanent, and he wants tariffs. He wants to eliminate taxation of tip income and Social Security benefits. But that doesn't address the structural tax reform and deficit problems.
At the level of bumper sticker sloganeering, Trump's platform is mostly fine. (I would quibble on a few points.) But there is nothing in it that even hints at an outline for tax reform. He takes entitlement reform off the table. He's for tariffs, economic growth, drill baby drill, and tax cuts. But if he wants to eliminate the existing federal income tax, he has to replace it with more than a bumper sticker slogan. And if he doesn't deal with entitlements, nothing he does on taxes or economic policy will make a difference, because entitlements will eat us alive. We are getting to the end of the road.
Here's the platform: Trump Agenda
Yes, I understand that campaign platforms are a combination of goal setting, sloganeering and wishful thinking. But Trump rules entitlement reform off the table. And that's the whole ballgame.
Ronald Reagan has gone beyond recall, but I with Trump would at least sit down privately with Newt Gingrich and George W. Bush (yes, GWB), both of whom at least stepped up to the Gordian Knot of entitlement reform and tried to advance a serious reform agenda within an affirmative, credible policy agenda that could be defended in the political arena. GWB even ran for reelection with the shifting of Social Security from a ponzi scheme to a fully funded, investment basis as a part of his agenda. He didn't get traction on the Hill because the democrats are adamantly opposed to dismantling the dependency racket, but he was at least talking about the real problem -- and he managed to win reelection despite Al Gore jabbering about "risky schemes." Trump seems to have drawn the lesson that the subject is untouchable, which is the wrong lesson to draw. Trump should be talking about the potential to triple or quadruple people's Social Security benefits if the money were invested rather than spent.
This may undermine him a bit in NV, so Trump better take full advantage of the messaging of this. This can be exhibit number one in an all out attack on her phoniness. No one should believe anything she says when she will steal her opponent’s ideas, radically alter her old far-left positions, and lie about how mentally sharp Biden is... Trump needs to pound this home and really lay out how fake it is that she’s trying to pretend to be a totally different person without an already existing public record.
I really think he should laser focus on this larger issue of phoniness and unbelievability. If he’s successful, then this will undermine all of her new, more “moderate” policy positions and people will find out about her old radical ones. He has been calling her “fake,” but he needs to brand her with this concept much more decisively.
“Crooked Hillary” was a wonderful marketing tool for branding Hillary with a concept that people believed and then judged her by. I think he needs to do the same with “Phony Kamala” or “Fake Kamala” or something similar. He needs to break through the media’s deification of her with his own, more negative branding, and then make everyone question “fake?” whenever they hear her speak.
Sorry, are = our.
He did say it when he went to the Hill. It’s not a part of his platform and he said he would rather look at tariffs. He said he wasn’t putting pressure on anyone about it but it was an idea he had and was open to it.
Is there any more proof needed that “they can’t do it alone”?
She’s lying. It will just be 4 more years of Obama.
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