Blue State Governors Are Blocking ‘No Tax on Tips’ for Their Constituents to Resist Trump

PJ Media ^ | 12/10/2025 | Matt Margolis

[SeekAndFind]

Democrats want us to believe they care about the little guy, the working class, the average American. Yet. somehow, their policies always seem to hurt the people they claim to help and enrich the elites who fund their campaigns. On the campaign trail last year, President Trump proposed his No Tax on Tips plan, and the left freaked out. Though they claimed it was bad policy, Kamala Harris went on to steal the plan just a couple of months after him.

No Tax on Tips became the law of the land with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, but a handful of blue state governors are refusing to give their constituents this tax relief. And the Trump administration isn’t happy about it.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent issued a blistering statement on Wednesday that exposed how far these states will go to block relief simply because it came from President Donald Trump.

Bessent described the OBBB as “the most pro-worker, pro-family legislation in a generation.” The law put real money back into the hands of people who actually earn it. No Tax on Tips for servers and bartenders. No Tax on Overtime for linemen and factory workers. A badly needed deduction for seniors who rely on Social Security. These are concrete victories for people, many of whom live paycheck to paycheck.

Yet, the Democrat governors of Colorado, New York, Illinois, and the District of Columbia decided their residents should not share the same wins. Bessent called their defiance “a blatant act of political obstructionism” and said these states are “deliberately blocking their own residents from receiving these historic benefits at the state level.” He laid out the consequences in plain terms. Governors and legislatures in these states are squeezing families harder and taking more from workers.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloggers; bluestate; governors; notstatesrights; taxes; tds; tips; unconstitutional

[SeekAndFind]

It is a calculated move. Democrat leaders know the No Tax on Tips provision is immensely popular with the very voters they claim to represent. They know overtime workers deserve a break. They know seniors need every bit of relief they can get. They just cannot bring themselves to acknowledge that Trump delivered it. So they are choosing to punish their own residents to resist Trump.

[laplata]

Good post.

We haven’t seen anything yet if they take the House next year. They’ll impeach Trump once a month and do everything possible to destroy MAGA. They will paralyze this country and not blink an eye.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...the Democrat governors of Colorado, New York, Illinois,
and the District of Columbia...”
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Well, I stopped reading right there.
“The Governor of the District of Columbia???”
Please, give me a break.

[catnipman]

in response to the OBBBA, the colorado democrat state legislature has enacted the following:

Overtime Pay and Tips Addback: While the federal OBBBA provides a temporary federal income tax exemption for overtime pay and tips (up to $25,000 for tips), Colorado enacted legislation requiring these amounts to be added back to an individual’s federal gross income when calculating their Colorado taxable income.

so, it’s actually the Democrats who hate the workers, NOT President Trump or the GOP ... still, i doubt the affected taxpayers in colorado will be able to figure that out and thereby stop voting for democrats ...

[A_Former_Democrat]

The air waves should be flooded with commercials regarding taxes

[Avalon Memories]

Yet, the Democrat governors of...the District of Columbia

Uh, there is no governor of DC. Although it has a measure of home rule, DC is actually governed by Congress because it is the federal district, not a state.