Posted on 12/10/2025 8:57:22 PM PST by 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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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.
“...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.
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 ...
The air waves should be flooded with commercials regarding taxes
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.
This article is horrible. Nowhere in it is there any explanation of how these state governors are preventing a federal tax break from taking effect. What’s the mechanism? Because if I tried to present this argument to some lefty, and they said “how is it even possible for a state to stop the federal government from giving a tax break”, I’d have no idea how to respond.
So those states ( well. excluding D.C....) aren't stopping the federal tax break from taking effect. They're just choosing to require state taxes to be continued to be paid on those earnings.
That's quite a bit different from what the article/headline says.
Yet these idiots still vote for democrats
My sentiment as well. How could they do it. I suppose they could question people’s state income tax returns.
The demoncrap’s war on the working man (and woman) continues upace.
Because the state governors are not preventing the federal tax break from taking effect.
The headline is click bait.
I can’t speak to the other states, but Illinois has a flat 5% income tax. Retirement funds are not taxed. Illinois is broke so they can’t afford to provide tax relief. Even if they could afford it, I don’t think the constitution would allow it because that would be favoring one citizen over another. Illinois had a 3% flat tax and upped it to 5% about 15 years ago. This is for personal income..
There are no good Democrats, they are all evil. Each and everyone of them
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
They just add the same tax back on State taxes…not hard to understand.
Huh? You mean they take the exact amount the taxpayer saved in actual taxes from the federal government, and increased their state tax bill by that same amount?
That would be almost impossible for states to do, and there's no hint in the article that is actually what is happening. For that to be done, knowing the taxpayers AGI, and the difference in AGI between whether or not the tips are included, wouldn't be enough. States also would have to know all the other deductions and federal credits, other sources of income, etc., for each taxpayer. Then compute the actual amount saved in taxes due to the exclusion of topped wages. That would be a nightmare.
What makes more sense is what someone else said Colorado is doing. Essentially, states that normally just accept the federal AGI as the basis for state taxation would require the taxpayer to add back in those tipped wages for the AGI the state uses.
In essence, the taxpayer still gets the same break on their federal taxes. They just don't get the same break when it comes to calculating state taxies. They wouldn't pay any more in state taxes -- they just wouldn't pay less.
I actually don't have a problem with that seeing as I'm not a fan of this particular tax break in the first place. It's simply pandering to one group of voters by giving them a tax break to which the rest of us aren't entitled simply because of their chosen field. That increases the burden on the rest of us.
They should just have taken whatever the total amount of that break is, and spread it over all taxpayers evenly. But, it was Trump pandering for votes, so that's why it happened.
This is bad policy that enriches mostly employers of hospitality and construction workers. Overtime workers get paid handsomely for the “overtime” they work, while exempt workers get no such pay.
In our town...we pay in cash for food and tips...TAX THAT, demcommies
There are no good Democrats, they are all evil. Each and everyone of them
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BINGO!
They are under the dark spell of Evil.
That Hussein Obama, who is as evil as they come, was elected was/is an ominous sign. I could go on and on and on............
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