Posted on 07/04/2025 9:08:23 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The product of years of Republican effort, the American tax code now blends traditional supply-side economics with President Trump’s populist 2024 campaign promises.
When Republicans last set out to change taxation in America, they spent years combing through the details of the internal revenue code. They traveled the country, held hearings and drafted early versions of a bill, eventually passed in 2017, that they hoped would transform a sclerotic tax system with long-held conservative principles.
This time around, as Republicans prepared for another opportunity to change how taxes in the world’s largest economy are collected, their core ideas came not from a Washington think tank or corporate accountant. Instead, in President Trump’s telling, a waitress at his hotel in Las Vegas complained to him about having to pay taxes on her tips while he dined there during the 2024 campaign.
Soon, the seemingly offhand remark became a centerpiece of Mr. Trump’s successful campaign back into office. Republicans on Capitol Hill embraced the idea, too, and Congress this week voted to create a new tax exemption for tipped income for the next few years. At an event at the White House last month promoting the legislation, Mr. Trump credited the waitress with helping him win Nevada, where many people work for tips.
“A legend was made,” Mr. Trump said. “We won Nevada by so much. Republicans don’t win Nevada. We won Nevada. So I want to thank that young, beautiful waitress. Thank you very much.”
The tips provision, while ultimately only a sliver of the sprawling package that lawmakers passed this week, marked an important evolution in how the Republican Party, long dedicated to lowering taxes, has approached that goal. Rather than the type of systematic re-examination of the tax code that took place in...
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What a disgusting, misleading article. The NY Slimes know nothing about this bill.
Vote buying in any form is bad.
they already did the systematic part in 2017, and by extending it this year, they did it again.
So the 2025 tax bill is really a mix of systematic review and populist voter-attractive ideas like the tips tax reduction.
Letting workers keep more of their earnings is not vote buying. It is the opposite.
They are just seething that the Republicans have become the party of the working class normal Americans and the Dem base is being reduced to elitists, freaks, illegal aliens, and various unemployable misfits.
“ Rather than the type of systematic re-examination of the tax code that took place in 2017”
The dishonest, purposefully misleading, propaganda spewing NYT fails to mention that this bill codifies those systematic changes that were passed in 2017. The only way Trump could get that through back then was to have an ending point.
Precisely.
😉👍
Also known as “picking winners and losers” I figured that this was part of the price we had to pay to win the election, but I don’t like it one bit. But just mention that all income should be taxed so everyone has skin in the game and the baying hounds on this site will come at you with “tips are a gift, not income.”
No income should be taxed.
"How Republicans Re-engineered the Tax Code"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
I'm not going get excited about Republicans and tax code for the following reason.
Democratic-controlled House Republicans (RINOs?) that patriots keep reelecting introduced a resolution to propose an amendment to the states to repeal the 16th Amendment (direct taxes) in last half 2021, the resolution unsurprisingly (imo) dying. (Respectfully to possibly patriot Republicans, did alleged RINOs want the resolution to die under Pelosi's watch?)
"16th Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
Gonna make it harder for Dems to convince hospitality workers that Trump hates them.
Correct!
Si did the New York Slimes print the truth for a change? ... Bwhahahahahaha
I agree. But that’s not the world we live in
I was happy the brackets are the same. As far as tips go, no tax affect. If we had a much higher percentage in house and senate, we could have expected more.
Maybe someone should start selling t-shirts on the Strip!
-PJ
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