[conservative98]

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.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Good. Starve the beast.

[Openurmind]

Photo op... They absolutely know this will never pass right now.

[Openurmind]

hoodwinked; hoodwinking; hoodwinks:

1: to deceive by false appearance : dupe
people who allow themselves to be hoodwinked by such promises.

[Seaplaner]

Letting people keep (most) of what they earn?

It will be popular with much of the service industry workers.

And, it's not an insulting giveaway.

[Tench_Coxe]

Won't fly. From the AP:

"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.

[Openurmind]

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.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/crime-she-writes/201909/the-art-the-con-and-why-people-fall-it

[Revel]

First off it will be the only job you can get where most of your income is tax free. Second the government will have to raise everyone else’s taxes to make up for it. It does not seem fair to me.

[Mariner]

Ted decides to codify stupid.

Trade/tariff cannot fund the current government.

Not even close.

[moovova]

Idiots.