Ted Cruz Puts Trump's Tax Idea Into Bill Form, Quickly Gets Support from Fellow Republicans.https://t.co/t9UmFdiZO4— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) June 25, 2024
Thank you, Ted.
Posted on 06/25/2024 3:03:23 PM PDT by conservative98
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is not waiting until after the presidential election to launch a bid to put one of former President Donald Trump’s ideas into effect.
Cruz has introduced the No Tax on Tips Act that would keep the Internal Revenue Service from taking a slice of the income service workers gain through tips, according to a news release on Cruz’s website.
During a recent rally in Las Vegas, Trump indicated he opposes taxes on tips, according to The Hill.
“For those hotel workers and people that get tips, you’re going to be very happy. Because when I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes on tips,” Trump said.
“We’re not going to do it, and we’re going to do that right away, first thing in office, because it’s been a point of contention for years and years and years. And you do a great job of service, you take care of people and I think it’s going to be something that really is deserved,” he said.
Cruz said that the National Restaurant Association and other groups support his bill.
“American workers in dozens of industries depend on tipped wages to support themselves. Today, I am introducing pro-worker legislation, the No Tax on Tips Act, to ensure they get to keep all of those tips. This legislation is a common-sense pro-worker bill that will help families deal with the historic inflation caused by the Biden administration,” he said.
The bill is co-sponsored by Republican Sens. Steve Daines of Montana, Rick Scott of Florida and Kevin Cramer of North Dakota.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
Ted Cruz Puts Trump's Tax Idea Into Bill Form, Quickly Gets Support from Fellow Republicans.https://t.co/t9UmFdiZO4— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) June 25, 2024
Thank you, Ted.
Good. Starve the beast.
Photo op... They absolutely know this will never pass right now.
hoodwinked; hoodwinking; hoodwinks:
1: to deceive by false appearance : dupe
people who allow themselves to be hoodwinked by such promises.
As Cruz revealed from having lunch for members of Congress with Trump last week, the plan is to have all of these bills and executive orders and regulations ready to go when Trump wins so it is not like 2017 when Congress and Senate were surprised Trump won and were not preprared with an agenda and the Executive didn’t know what they were doing either. When Trump wins this time they, whether this particular bill passes or not, they will hit the ground running with a much, much better level of preparation to make a lasting difference IMMEDIATELY.
It will be popular with much of the service industry workers.
And, it's not an insulting giveaway.
You never know. Schumer will probably not let it on the floor but with two maybe three Senators who have recently broken from their far left it has a chance - if it can get to a floor vote.
In any case, it makes for good campaign fodder. “Dems blocked the bill that would’ve saved your tip money.”
No they won’t... They will do the same thing they did when they had both the house and Senate during Trump’s term.
Nothing. They are straight up hoodwinking folks who are gullible enough to fall for it.
They have been setting examples of what their true MO is for years, and they are not going to change now.
At some point folks need to wake up to the reality of how it really works. Some words, promises, and grandeur just needs to be immediately dismissed with no more thought wasted on it because it is just not going to happen.
This willingness to believe everything they promise us is exactly why we are losing this war. Actions are stronger than words, and so far all they have given us are false words.
They have taken advantage of our emotions and then jerked the rug out from under us over and over and over. When are we going to learn and stop letting them do this?
When it comes to these promises skepticism is a just virtue.
"The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan fiscal watchdog group, has estimated that exempting tips from both income and payroll taxes would reduce federal revenues by $150 billion to $250 billion over the next decade."-- Trump is proposing to make tips tax-free. What would that mean for workers?
Why? Because DC will figure its money they can't use for their most important priorities, like laundering it through Ukraine or facilitating resettlement of illegals in the interior of the US.
“In any case, it makes for good campaign fodder. “Dems blocked the bill that would’ve saved your tip money.”
And with this who are they trying to appease? The left? They don’t care, that means more free money from the tax payers in general to make up for those local losses.
So that talking point is completely inert and useless.
Appease? No, they would be trying to gain some votes from waiters, bartenders, baristas, valets, gig workers etc. It wouldn’t effect local taxes.
It’s not free money. It’s keep more of what you earn money.
If any of the legal naysayers have a better idea let’s hear it. I’m open to serious ideas. Just sittting back and saying can’t/won’t/never is what LOSERS do and is not a plan.
I don't believe those estimates.
Here is the reality... And smart folks are getting tired of it. More need to get tired of it.
The Art of the Con and Why People Fall for It.
By definition, a con artist is a manipulator who cheats, or tricks, others through persuading them to believe something that is not true. Through deception, they fool people into believing they can make easy money when, in fact, it is the con artist who ends up taking the victim’s money. The criminal and legal consequences of such indiscretions can be insignificant or great, depending on the circumstances and the laws of the land. In the course of co-authoring The Crime Book, which covered more than 100 crimes, I researched and wrote a chapter about con artists. Their crimes are varied, as are their behaviors. But the one thing they each have in common is the power of persuasion to take advantage of unsuspecting people.
Name of the Game
The confidence game, as scam artistry is called, is one of the oldest tricks in the trade. It exploits people’s trust. Human nature is on the side of these masters of fraud when it comes to defrauding their marks, or victims, and contributes to the con’s enduring success. Perpetrators have been referred to everything from flimflam operators, hustlers, grifters, and tricksters. The victims have been called marks, suckers, and gulls. And while media publicity has further romanticized cons and put their crimes in the public eye, their actions are anything but glamorous.
They did this with every Trump idea from the time he was a candidate in 2016 until today.
Perpetual doom and gloomers who hedge on the side of negative because it feels like a safer bet.
Pay these cowards no mind.
“If any of the legal naysayers have a better idea let’s hear it. I’m open to serious ideas. Just sittting back and saying can’t/won’t/never is what LOSERS do and is not a plan”
What they are doing is literally a crime. It is fraud and misrepresentation. It is time to sue them for their fraudulent con games against the people.
Both sides...
“Perpetual doom and gloomers who hedge on the side of negative because it feels like a safer bet.
Pay these cowards no mind.”
Tell me how well it turns out for you... Because I already know... Trusting their word is like jumping a motorcycle off a cliff and hoping you get a softer crash. You are STILL crashing.
I have done such in the past myself. As long as the taxes on the gift have already been paid by the giver, no further accounting is necessary.
So it should be by a gratuitous gift to a server by one served, not demanded as a wage paid by the server's employer, no accountable to him.
“Appease? No, they would be trying to gain some votes from waiters, bartenders, baristas, valets, gig workers etc. It wouldn’t effect local taxes.
It’s not free money. It’s keep more of what you earn money.”
Ok, let me put it another way... It YOUR time valuable? Well you just wasted a minute trying to explain to me what the end product will be of something that WILL NOT happen.
If there was a possibility I would be all in and really do understand how it works. I’m all for it because it keeps dollars in the LOCAl economy rather than going to the feds who spend it on stuff I morally hate.
My point is they are full of crap, they are manipulating us and playing us like fiddles. They don’t want to reduce tax burden anymore than the left does, they have several wars they want to keep funding so their MIC buddies profit and give them kickbacks.
So this claim in this article is all BS appeasement to satisfy emotions. At some point I really wish folks would see through the false disingenuous words they throw at us.
Rise above the manipulation in masses and it will make a change.
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