Posted on 06/04/2025 7:36:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
The senator is pushing for a different approach that would treat people with similar earnings more equally.
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Sen. Thom Tillis indicated Tuesday that he wants significant changes to Republicans’ plans to cut taxes on tips, one of President Donald Trump’s top priorities in the megabill now before lawmakers.
The House-approved draft of the tip proposal is unfair to people who work in industries where tipping isn’t customary, the North Carolina Republican told POLITICO. He complained that a waiter would qualify for the break but a warehouse worker would not, even if they had similar incomes.
Tillis, a tax writer, said he wants a different approach that would treat people with similar earnings more equally.
He also raised the possibility of dropping the $40 billion tip proposal from the legislation altogether, noting the idea has bipartisan support and expressing doubt that Democrats would stop Republicans from passing it separately later.
“Maybe there’s a different way to achieve what they’re setting out to do,” he said.
Tillis’ comments come as Senate Republican leaders say they intend to make changes to the sprawling tax, energy and immigration package approved last month by the House and still get it to Trump’s desk by their July 4 recess. That could be difficult if individual senators, who have lots of leverage given Republicans’ thin majority in the chamber, demand major changes.
Trump campaigned on making tips tax-free, and the House draft would create a new tip deduction for people in industries where tipping is customary so long as they don’t make more than $160,000.
One alternative, Tillis said, would be to create “some other benefit” available to a wider swathe of workers but, to keep the budgetary cost down, limit it to people with lower incomes.
Tillis also said he doubted Democrats would oppose the plan if Republicans tried to move it separately later, noting the chamber late last month unanimously approved a different bill by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to nix taxes on tips.
“I’m at a loss for what Democrats would vote against it,” said Tillis. “They’ve already evidenced that they’re worried about voting ‘no’.”
Oh, Tommy Teelis, sleazy RINO backstabbing used car sales POS tries to use an old Rat argument to keep people paying the government slave tax?
How shocking.
Send this grinning cheeseball huckster conman back the Tidewater swamps he came from.
And BTW, when one chooses to tip, sht like this is why one should always tip in cash.
If a rich member at a country club slides the Caddy Master or the Starter a fifty for doing basically nothing but discussing the weekend's football, that's not a gift? He did it because he genuinely likes the employee and wants him/her to make money.
If anyone should have a claim to part of the fifty, it should be the club - because they're providing the work environment that makes it possible. Certainly not the gubbmint.
Fell for Tillis’s con, did ye?
How about we eliminate federal Medicaid and all aid to the poor, lower taxes proportionately, and let each state decide if it wants to raise taxes for such programs?
It would be a 25% overall tax decrease.
That's also true of gig work, consulting, and a host of small business enterprises.
Pay for work is pay for work, not a gift.
DOGE cuts tomorrow, in a separate bill. I dare the democrats to filibuster it. We have a good 20 Republicans who will support pushing DOGE cuts forward. Tomorrow... er, uh, next time we are back in session, er, uh, it’s on the regular calendar, er, uh, well after the election...
They need to cut spending. !!!
"It's a disgusting abomination."
-Elon Musk
Cut spending and raise tariffs to make up the shortfall and slash most government regulations and remove the right of people to sue over "environmental" reasons, unless a permit is denied.
US real growth would zoom to 6%-7% per year.
Whatever you TAX you get LESS OF.
Whatever you SUBSIDIZE you GET MORE OF.
Stop SUBSIDIZING POVERTY!...............
Tillis has a good chance of winning but only if Roy Cooper is not running.
Tillis is trying to get the suburban vote.
Roy Cooper. What a turd. 💩
Under a state only welfare policy, all the bums will move to blue states who do not understand this.
... who are in plentiful supply on Free Republic, sadly
Waitresses don't make $160k. Ridiculously high limit.
Not only would no tax on tips directly benefit the employee, it would also greatly benefit the employer because if the tips are not being taxed then the employer would not have to pay any matching contributions like Social Security and Medicare, the elimination of no tax on tips is a win/win situation for both the employee and employer
“”””When you work for tips, there’s no guarantee of tips; when you work in a warehouse, your pay is guaranteed.””””
That is why waiters and waitresses are always desperate to move into the steady, dependable, guaranteed pay of busser and dishwasher when there is an opening.
if you don’t want your server to pay taxes on tips, then don’t include the tip on your credit card. Tip in cash.
So, 77 million people actually secretly voted for Tillis not Trump?
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