Last week President Trump proposed a new tax policy he would work to get passed by the legislative branch. President Trump wants to eliminate income taxes on tips given by customers to servers and service employees.
Speaking in Nevada, President Trump remarked, “so this is the first time I’ve said this, and 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 people (are) making,” Trump told a crowd of thousands.
President Trump said he would “do that right away, first thing in office,” and noted in his remarks that he would seek legislation in Congress to make the change. “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.” WATCH:
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told a rally in Las Vegas on Sunday that he would seek to end taxation of income from tips, a direct appeal to service workers in the swing state of Nevada, which polls suggest is leaning his way ahead of the Nov. 5 election. (LINK)
In addition to being a great financial and economic policy for the middle-class and working-class service industry, this position also solidifies a value in cash against the creation of a federal reserve digital currency.
Additionally, someone on the Twitter had a great idea for when you leave a tip at a restaurant.
Write on the restaurant check: “Vote Trump – Earn tax free tips” :))
A step in the right direction..NOW propose repeal of the income tax entirely
Even in Russia, they had a flat tax of 13% for all income levels since 2001.
There was a story recently about it being raised to something like 17% for incomes in the 1% area.
Better than the 65% [incl. state, local, prop, etc.] I’ve been paying.
If they can just print money, tell me again why they need an income tax??
Our taxes provide the collateral for printing T-bills that our pension funds purchase so that our retirement plans amount to writing ourselves an IOU to cash in when we retire.
Meanwhile, trillions are being taken out the back door, through every agency and the Fed banks.
A Great Reset is inevitable, and even desirable at this point. The question is, will it be a reset for the people of the world, or a reset for the banking elites, their chosen princes, and legalized slavery?
“ A Great Reset is inevitable, and even desirable at this point. The question is, will it be a reset for the people of the world, or a reset for the banking elites, their chosen princes, and legalized slavery?”
That’s the $100,000 question isn’t it?
To screw you multiple times.
They need taxes so they can screw us.
I’ve been saying for so long….our government has WAYYYY TOOOO much of our money. 35 trillion in debt – they ought to be put in the public square in stocks on their way to prison for just about every imaginable crime.
I have yet to find a good newer to that one!
Repealing the income tax would force a reduction in the size of government, no money. And it would cause productivity to increase which is the only way to stop the effects of inflation.
The US did just fine, won multiple wars and had the greatest growth rates in history relying only on import tariffs with no income tax.
Returning to an import tariff as the primary source of federal government income would align the interests of the government with those of the people; Smaller governments, Bigger domestic manufacturing base, More domestic energy, More employment, Higher wages.
Total global imports into the US in 2023 were $3.83 Trillion. Slap a 10% revenue tariff on across the board onto EVERYTHING imported, no exceptions. Then program in a percentage increase of 5% per year until tariff rate hits 50%, while reducing federal individual income taxes by a comparable dollar amount to stay revenue neutral.
Reserve any resumption in the individual income tax for national emergencies or DECLARED wars (not fake wars) with a two-thirds approval required from both houses of congress.
Medicare and Social Security would probably still need to be funded by payroll-tax.
will that change service employee unions votes?
MAGA A1St policies promoted by PDJT have already doneca lot, to seperate the rank snd file from the Union coruptocrats, this will do more.
Also, ironically the illegals already in countryvand well established, are NOT enamoured of this new group Joe is importing.
Nevada may well go MAGA.
Seriously? Why aren’t the, “old illegals” not enamoured with the new illegals? Taking their place, etc?
Jealousy. Think about it for a second.
Did the old illegals get free health care, new phones, thousands a month, free place to live, free food, and the U.S. government helping and paying for it all?
No.
Meanwhile…
“Brazil’s finance minister: ‘Taxing the super-rich is both an emergency and a necessity’
At the helm of this year’s G20, Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad speaks to Le Monde about taxing the wealthy and creating new international alliances.
“The successor”: In Brazil, that’s how many people refer to Fernando Haddad. At 61, the former mayor of Sao Paulo and left-wing candidate in the 2018 presidential election is now finance minister. He is seen as the most serious successor to the head of state, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. As head of the G20 finance ministers’ meeting, to be held from November 18 to 19, he is making a strong case for minimum taxation of the super-rich at an international level.
“Our ambition is to succeed in taxing wealth on the basis of assets.”
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2024/05/30/brazil-s-finance-minister-taxing-the-super-rich-is-both-an-emergency-and-a-necessity_6673093_19.html
As with all these “Tax the Rich Schemes”, it will always come down to those pesky unpublished definitions of terms and conditions as well as those unpublished “detailed” fine print exceptions that only those the “evil objectives” of these taxes can afford …
In the famous words of Oil Can Harry from the cartoon Tom Terrific … “drat foiled again…” //sarc intended
Tax the super-rich and they can simply vote with their feet and move to somewhere else!
Don’t even have to move, as money in bank accounts can travel at the speed of the internet.
Just eat them instead
Oil Can Harry was the recurring villain in Might Mouse cartoons. Crabby Appleton was Tom Terrific’s nemesis.
This is a great start but what really needs to happen is the full repeal of The Sixteenth Amendment (And the Seventeenth but we’ll save that for later), the full abolition of the IRS and replacing the income tax with The Fair Tax which allow everyone to make as much as they wish and to KEEP ALL THAT YOU MAKE.
How about eliminating all federal income tax? Unconstitutional.
The 16th Amendment makes an income tax authorized. It is not required by the constitution.
I was always under the impression that the 16th was never ratified by a majority of states. Likewise, abolish the IRS and let EACH state collect their taxes and submit to the US Treasury (instead of the Federal Reserve). “He who controls the money…….,” etc.
The message on the bill is a brilliant idea.
Spread the Word.
Yes it is! Especially since Trump has a well known history of being an excellent tipper himself!
A great way to get the message to the young (and old) people. I tip in cash. I thought I would come up with something similar to paper clip to my tips – my way to campaign for Trump. Nice, crisp bills (I’ll throw in extra) with a note – “Vote for Trump to keep government from stealing your tip money.” I believe I have ALREADY paid taxes (and a lot) on the money I share as tips.
I see all the suggestions … a few are even mine … yet one has to be careful and use a modicum of common sense … NO Taxes sounds great … how do the following sound if there are no taxes collected?
No roads
No water & sewer systems
No law enforcement
No fire departments
… just to name a few key public services that are the basis of our modern existence.
OK …. no taxes … so how are these services created and sustained??
I have no issue with controlling and limiting taxes but there is a trade-off and balance point to consider.
Tariffs, customs and imposts, and user fees.
Those ARE TAXES…added onto everything we buy…and many are uncontrollable by the voters.
However, you prove the point … a common sense approach, discussion and balance is needed to Taxes levied.
Point is NOTHING is free.
Tax (noun): a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers’ income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions.
But they are NOT INCOME taxes on the ordinary citizens.
nothing is free, but that doesn’t mean you should be forced to pay for something you don’t want or won’t use. if you want it, you pay for it.
you want roads, you pay for roads.
you want health insurance, you pay for that.
you want a war in Ukraine pony up.
don’t look around the country at all the people you want to rob in order to provide the things that you want. because when government spends by inflation or taxation, that’s what you did. you robbed people against their will.
As Ayn Rand said: All tax is theft!
We paid nothing extra, and even saved money, with President Trump’s targeted tariffs on aluminum, steel and others.
We paid extra on the products produced from the aluminum and steel. The tariffs WILL show up in the final price. I only pay IF I make that purchase. A consumption tax that’s voluntary. Big difference between that and a mandatory tax on income.
No we didn’t. Prices did not rise. In fact, they fell precipitously.
User Fees maybe, but the rest can’t be imposed by local or state governments. All local and state expenditures can be paid for by sales taxes and get rid of income and property taxes.
Boom
Federal revenues can be met, in total thru TARIFFS, and to a much lesser degree usage fees.
STATE and Municipal taxing can and shoukd pay for roads, bridges, LE, and FD.
Yep .. more discussion … a tax is a tax … that is the point. There are all sorts of schemes and process to collect them.
The points are:
Taxes cannot be eliminated, as many seem to want without considering the impact.
A controllable, sensible taxation system … federal to local is needed.
The details are a different disucssion.
A discussion Trump would and has excelled in.
We didn’t need the 16th Amendment at all, it was part of a package to exploit and control America and its citizens.
Tariffs were and could be earned in a process that simultaneously grew our economy and industrial base and enhanced cooperation and comity abroad.
What’s not to like?
(Don’t ask The City of London)
But our democracy!
(sarc)
Some inflation in prices is the result of a robust economy, but the 20%+ inflation in goods every person needs, is a “tax” all the same. But government doesn’t get much of that. And when people cut back and purchase only necessities, like many folks I know are doing now, government receipts plummet. And then when government ramps up deficit spending, like what has happened in the current administration, then the cost of most everything continues to increase, piling more bad news on the general public. I agree that taxes are needed, and I happily have paid my “fair share” (what is ascribed in tax law) over the years. It’s needless government spending that needs to be reined in and a good first step would be the elimination of government jobs which serve little if any purpose.
Aside from enforcement of Law, Keeping of the Peace, and Court Administration, Government at all levels is nothing more than a jobs/favor program/ *protection*racket.
One major point would be, VERY few things need to be federally taxed. We are a federation of states, and over the past four years we’ve seen why that’s important. Absolutely nothing should be taxed at the federal level that can be done at the state level, and nothing at the state level that can be done a the county level, etc.
Not outsourced to companies or countries. Keep accountability local.
For those of us living outside of cities and suburbia, your list is not entirely relevant. I have a well for water and a septic system. My law enforcement is my county sheriff and deputies. My volunteer fire dept will save me and my dog, but most likely my house will burn as the closest hydrant is miles away. The nearest water source for the pumper truck is a lake which is within 300′. Yes my town taxes pay for the fire fighting equipment, which is decades old, and the cost of a new fire station as the old one was beyond repair. I live on a private dirt road sustained my HOA dues…the closest paved road is about a mile away. We have no street lights until you get to the downtown area which is about 6 miles away.
In my neck of the woods, the biggest budget item is the cost of the public schools and more than one of those budgets failed to pass in yesterday’s voting.
when you end the federal taxes that support those things, they becomes state issues, except the states don’t have the same ability to counterfeit and therefore inflate, so a lot of fiscal responsibility starts to get imposed.
roads are like cell phones. once they are built, if you don’t use them you can’t compete in the marketplace. But who’s to say life on earth wouldn’t be more peaceable, slower paced, and enjoyable without roads. In any case, roads are here and now we have to deal with them. turn over al US interstates to the states and eliminate federal roads. now that the feds can’t inflate at will, the actual prices for things start to normalize and contractors that want to make a buck have to be competitive. so, there may have to be some state level funding mechanism for roads.
water and sewer – many people have their own on-lot systems. let people install their own on-lot systems or have the option to hook up if it’s available. if they voluntarily hook up, it’s not a tax, but a voluntary fee.
law enforcement – voluntary participation. you don’t have to pay in, but if you don’t they don’t protect you and you can’t use the courts.
fire departments – that’s easy, you don’t pay, your house burns.
all of these things can be done under voluntary means. forcing people to pay for stuff they don’t want or won’t use is immoral.
The last time I built a house. Digging the well, 4BR septic and 600 ft of drain field, cost me $8000. Cash price.
That was in 2011. I cannot imagine what it costs today.
To say we should do without public water and sewer is short sighted.
There is no substitute for the blessings of civilization.
Yet many seem to fetishize and pine for anarchy.
So what about people who are unable to pay?
The problem lies with spending money where there is no need. I live in Southern Coastal Maine. The I-95 Interstate is re-paving the corridor from York through Kittery, into Portsmouth. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS SECTION OF I-95.
Apparently, “they” were given federal dollars to spend on “improving” roads in Southern Maine. IT’S A SHAM.
I read somewhere that if they don’t spend their allotment, their allotment is cut the next year. So they just pick somewhere to spend it, needed or not.
No encouragement to be responsible with our money at all…
No one here EVER said “no taxes.” The subject here is tax free tips.
Yes taxes are necessary, yet foreign aid is NOT. Neither is room and board for criminal invaders.
But you knew that.
none of those things are funded by federal income tax …
Interesting, I have thise property tax type things which I’m told goes to pay for those exact things. Property tax on my house, my car, my boat if I had one, my quad too if I had one of those, my motorcycle, not to mention taxes on haircuts, not sales tax, taxes on commodities, and so on and so forth……meanwhile we give billions to illegals and billions to foreign countries.
Everything you mention is funded by local and state taxes and not federal.
We pay state income tax (most of us), state sales tax, some states even have multiple taxes….hell, just look at the photo in the article: in one meal you are impacted by the federal income tax on the money being used to pay, not to mention FICA taxes, then you have the state income tax, then you have the taxes listed on the receipt, state, county, CBID, and LBD.
They get more than their fair share to pay for crap. It’s not a revenue problem it’s a government spending problem.
Roads, water & sewer systems, law enforcement and fire departments are ALL state and local matters. They should be funded by state and local revenue. The United States are a constitutional republic. States and localities have to fund their own projects. The federal government has NO constitutional authority to pay for any of that stuff.
But, over time, a series of bad court decisions have over-stretched the so-called “elastic” clauses in the Constitution to make everything under the sun a federal matter. The income tax made an unlimited pool of money available to the federal government and they use it to control and subjugate the states in a complete violation of a constitutional republic.
I seem to remember that states and munis would issue bonds to raise money for infrastructure projects, and if you saw fit(as an individual), you could invest or not, as you saw fit. And the projects still got built.
Eliminate the tax on Social Security!
That is double taxation!
Obscene.
Reagan started the taxes on unemployment income…a cheap shot in my opinion.
I don’t remember who was President when they clamped down on tips. Government forced people to declare income from tips. In Maine I remember one year where they audited almost every waitress just to scare them and collect money on tips. I think they have to declare they received a certain monetary amount from tips and then pay taxes.
Actually, one year they audited lobstermen and another year carpenters. You can see they were after the hard working people, many self-employed. My former husband was a carpenter and they decided to audit him one year. Well, he was horribly disorganized but he saved every receipt. He hated doing taxes so he sloppily ended up reporting his taxes without going through all his expenses. So when they audited him, he pulled out all his receipts and found many he never claimed. When he met with the auditor it turns out the government owed him money..haha…not much but never got audited again.
It is my recollection that Clinton implemented the the tax on 85% of Social Security.
Doesn’t matter who started it, it needs to stop.
Amen……..I pay federal tax on my Maryland state retirement. And of course, a state tax. Probably around 1,000 extra dollars a month I don’t see.
I fully understand the idea behind not taxing tips. But, when you need a loan and only show you made $25,000 in taxable income, instead of the actual $75,000. You can hardly expect a bank to approve you for a mortgage.
Is that really your best argument? Ask some of those people whose tips are being taxed if this is a concern for them.
I will help Charles out with a few more:
It’s not a good policy decision by Trump. Same as Bidens student loan policy.
Then go get a tip job. Before 1982, no one was bothered by tips being exempt from federal income taxes.
I cannot tell you how many people I have encouraged to get into the tip industries and most of them reply that they do not want to work with the public, they do not want to work nights/weekend/holidays, they do not want to breathe in second hand smoke, and they do not want to be on their feet all day.
So they opt to go into plumbing and teaching. YOU DON’T GET TO HAVE EVERYTHING. There is a tradeoff. Life is not fair. Plumbers and teachers do not earn as much as CEOs and Congress. Too bad.
So go get a casino dealer job, hotel housekeeping job, valet parking job, cocktail server job, restaurant server job, or a bellman job. But prepared to work odd hours, have your holidays ruined, breath in second hand smoke, deal with the public, deal with drunks, stand on your feet all day, and have people like you think that they should be reduced to your level to make you happy.
No one is keeping you, your plumber and his wife from going and getting one of these jobs.
You want them miserable just to make you feel better. Talk about Working Class Envy.
Exactly.
Let’s try to remember that a tip is basically a gift; and gifts are not taxed.
Well, they should not be!
You shouldn’t get the same service if you’re a cheap pos like you’re stating. I hate cheap people and your argument points exactly to that because that’s the first thing you went to.
“and only show you made $25,000 in taxable income, instead of the actual $75,000” –
What a typical example of the indentured servitude of the serf mindset, victim.
The reader is invited to try this thought exercise on for size and come to their own conclusions:
If the person in question earned an untaxable $50,000 dollars per year in addition to the $25,000 unfortunately substantially reduced by various criminal regime protection schemes (aka “taxation”), and saved that $50,000 per year for 3 to 5 years, they wouldn’t need that mortgage from their friendly, generous, responsible and caring bank, now would they?
Assuming you could even touch a house for 150k, which is ridiculous.
Feeble excuse. Las Vegas is tip town. Until 1982, tips were not taxed. Local mortgage lenders understood what people really made here in Nevada. All you had to do is tell them what casino you worked in and what position you have and if you are part time or full time. Dealers, valet parking, and cocktails being the top end. Porters and housekeeping being more at the lower end.
Nevada did fine before the federal government got involved. We have no state income tax. It was paradise.
We laughed all the way to the bank. Because tips were not taxed you could deposit all of your money into the bank and not get audited. Then give the lenders your bank statements.
You’re stating facts….Charles may be angry.
Maybe the Mob gave the bankers ‘a deal they couldn’t refuse’ and that’s why employees got mortgages.
You’d have an additional $50k for a down payment. Lenders love that.
Bring your bank deposit slips and show them your real after tax earnings.
Really? Are people who are living off tips buying homes? I don’t think so.
I worked for a fella that owned a brew pub. He was telling me about the salary he pays himself each month. He also stated that he knows his servers were bringing more home in tips on a good weekend than he was paying himself per month. He then stated these were the same people that could not understand why a bank would not approve them for a mortgage when they did not claim the tips on their taxes. He had no pity for them. I did not make a case for either side, just stated a fact.
And no, I really don’t care what you think.
A horrible idea . I am surprised so many have not thought this out. What next Military pay is excluded from taxes, then teachers, then police and then all social service workers. Where does it stop ?
Then if my waiter is not taxed but the Chef and his staff are, what do you think will happen ? I know you know.
Then if I don’t tip 20% but drop it down to 15% or 15% to 10% ( like other countries ), what do you think will happen ? Why would I used my after tax dollars and tip the same for somebody who is tax exempt.
I am Maga but the construction worker who makes $400.00 a day should pay the same taxes as a waiter or stripper or taxi driver who makes the same.
Trump is pandering for votes and he does not have to do it.
All income that someone worked for and received as payment for their labor is constitutionally non taxable, whether they are a harlot or a saint, a soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor or anything else. If the dude shined a pair of shoes, what he gets paid is his, all of it, more so (constitutionally and probably morally) than what “Mister Passive Income Dude or Lady” earned from their stock market investments, rental properties, imported cheap shit from China that they sold you, etc.
President Trump has nothing to do with it. The sooner the illegal criminal regime protection schemes are ended, the better.
Anyone who wants to consider this matter, take as an example the oh-so-important “Social Security” ponzi scam, that so many ignorant victims have been terrorized into fearing will “run dry” and they won’t (or will stop) getting their $600 a month or so on average for a few years of their dotage remaining until their demise, after paying into that scam for 50 years, as opposed to what if they had gotten to keep all those SS payments for 50 years and use the whole pile when and how as they see fit….
You again? So don’t tip. Be one of those people.
Exactly. Or start voicing your angst against being over taxed while the government overspends.
He says, he’s Maga but loves paying almost half of his income (more once you add in sales, property, state, and the cute little special taxes they add to things like hair cuts and commidities) in taxes.
There was a war fought because people were being over taxed while not being represented. I can’t recall where that happened…but for some reason, it feels like groundhog day here in America.
Employers pay the employees that are service related and have a reasonable expectation of receiving tips, far less money per hour than employees in regular labor jobs.
The regular labor employees also have their income tax deducted from periodic payrolls which is then tallied against the tax return information.
Servers on the other hand must declare all tip income at once when filing federal taxes. This results in large lump sum tax bills due.
Or they must self report and pay periodic taxes on those tips. A very onerous task.
It has always been thus.
You’re making up illogical excuses and it’s obvious.
Howabout, no FEDERAL TAXES period or at least until ALL pork and departments are gutted????? Howabout that??!!
Howabout, no FEDERAL TAXES period, except on what was in the Constitution, things like tariffs and duties on imports and levies on investments and income property earnings and the like…
How about that?
BINGO!!!!
BINGO!
Already the RINO Sam Brown who just won the Nevada Senate primary to run against Democrat Senator Jackie Rosen has stories being written in the local Reno news that President Trump stole Sam Brown’s idea to eliminate taxes on tips.
Heard it on a local news interview with a ‘political science professor’ at a local community college claiming Sam Brown made that claim. Have no idea if that is a valid accusation and if found somewhere that can be linked, will share.
I doubt Sam brown came up with this idea out of thin air. So does he want President Trump to credit him with an idea as old as people earning tips? Sam brown needs to grow up. Who cares who comes up with the idea.
not trying to be smart, but who in the hell cares as long as the idea is out there. Trump supported the guy. Isn’t that enough?
Genius move. Now reverse Biden’s $600 annual sales reporting to IRS. That rule has been a boom to tax preparers and a ridiculous snare to all small sellers using payment processing systems.
Biden flat out LIED that his new tax proposals would affect anyone under $XXXXX. What’s worse is Etsy and other online selling platforms conspired with him to do this. I dumped them immediately once I found out. Etsy’s business has fallen dramatically since hahaHA.
That must be why I have seen so many things at reduced prices on Etsy.
Which was exactly what they had planned. Any claims of not raising taxes on the little guy were flat out lies. They know that is where the real money is, just by virtue of our numbers. I just wish the gullible among us knew that.
I wonder what percentage of people receiving tips are voting citizens vs immigrants (legal or invader)? Maybe it’s different in other states, but here in California I doubt the majority are citizens.
Back in the day I worked as a server at a very busy ocean front beach restaurant, and we had to share our tips with our busser. From what I hear now most restaurant servers are required to pool all their tips together and they divide them up at closing. when me and my husband go out to a restaurant, we always leave cash tips. This way the server can determine how much they want to report or contribute to the pool.
This is honestly very unfair. The table busser didn’t do diddly for me while I was being served, the wait staff did. The person who does the waiting is the one who should be given the tips not the table busser..
It is generally considered a gratuity that the wait staff give to the busboys for keeping the tables cleared in a timely manner, refreshing the water, bringing napkins, etc. I waited in college and it was done with gratitude.
I agree, Zoe.
We never pooled tips. They were for the wait staff only.
I worked as a busboy, and the tips were the only incentive to move up the chain and get a waiting job.
Busboy is *much* easier/low stress than waiting tables.
Ditto for being a dishwasher, which I also did.
Again, a behind-the scenes, easier, low stress job.
Not really. And I did all three depending on what was needed most. Add to that delivery driver and bar tender. No matter what job you do you should expect to bust your butt. I miss restaurant work dearly, but it’s not for the elderly. Nor is Healthcare which I eventually retired from.
Yes, of course, cash is king – best way to do it. However, many restaurants now predetermine the tip as an extra charge on your bill.
Then they deserve to lose business. It’s stops being a “tip” if it’s just taken from you.
I, too, am under the impression that tips these days are generally put in a pool and split among the waitstaff, busboys and kitchen staff, management excluded. I even discovered that at one restaurant I frequent, where they add the “service fee” to the check, the server doesn’t get that in a tip, it goes to the restaurant. When I asked the manager if that was true he said it is the only way they can afford to pay the staff $20/hour. If they pay less than that they can’t get anyone to take the jobs. I guess young people would rather sit home and play video games than work for less than $20/hr. Once I discovered that I started leaving an additional cash tip for great service. Believe me, the servers fight to seat me in their section.
I’m still waiting on my Trump-proposed, postcard sized tax return….
Sorry – he was kinda busy with Russia Russia Russia and other attacks.
Probably why he didn’t get to it.
FANTASTIC IDEA!
Sundance also left off pragmatic political benefits for President Trump:
– buttresses his pro-worker credit
– Waitresses, waiters, Uber & Door Dash drivers will love it
– big in Nevada, Arizona, Florida – where else?
– Latino workers in the food industry will love it!
California
You want something to run on and swell support? Promise to eliminate Federal taxes on all social security payments. To tax retirees who’ve paid faithfully into the system for all of their working lives is absolutely vile. Given the Biden-comics driven inflation, and the horrific choices being forced on our defenseless seniors right now, in real time, this is an honest and righteous issue to stand on.
Why do you not demand to abolish Social Security and just have the corrupt regime give you your money back that they strongarmed out of you for your entire working life, on top of the other regime protection scheme, the anti-constitutional “income taxes”?
And, if you generously feel that your betters in your fine, democratically and fairly elected regime bosses deserve some cash for graciously allowing you to continue servicing them from your job instead of from behind bars, what stopped you from using their own rules to never pay more than 15% taxes if you couldn’t write anything off for your expenses as an LLC or S-Corp, employed in a business-to-business relationship wherever you worked, just like they who got these ‘tax codes’ written do? Why didn’t you just pay the minimum Social Security, for 5 years if I recall correctly, and then never pay it again, but still get SS payments when that day comes, just like “they” do?
Well, friend, nothing personal, but when one becomes dependent on the Gov’t titty, expecting “the Man” to take care of him, one is too scared and remains too ignorant to take care of himself and his own properly, and it’s all good while the regime still finds it prudent to do so more or less, until the regime doesn’t….
You get it.
Use cash as often as possible. Especially for tips.
President Trump will guarantee the senior vote by simply stating he’ll call for a repeal of taxing social security benefits.
I think Biden likely voted to tax those benefits as a senator.
I don’t know if he did or not, but one thing I do know; bidung never met a tax he didn’t like.
What he really needs to announce is a going out of business sale of Government assets….everything must go….equipment, real-estate…everything…one big garage sale….
Lop off entire branches of the Government …lay everyone off…..see ya!
Dismantle and STARVE the beast…
This is done in other counties and the oligarchs swoop in at deep discount.
I was working way back when tips were mandated to be taxed based on an estimated of your sales. It was estimated that you made minimum 8% in tips. It was more common for people to pay in cash than using credit and debit cards didn’t exist. There were many days I didn’t make 8% in tips but I got taxed on it anyway. I always try to tip in cash so all of the tip isn’t taxed. I will say tipping is almost forced today but tipping wasn’t like it is today. I’ll also say I will stiff a service worker if they really suck and feel no guilt. But when a server just does their job I over tip.
I thought it was a masterful move for Trump when I heard him announce that last Sunday. There are all sorts of work arounds for corporations and wealthy people to avoid taxes legally. Since our sewer creatures in DC don’t want to eliminate the income tax or flatten it to be fair I love this idea.
That’s part of their income. This is unfair to other service workers who don’t make tips, and pay taxes on their entire income.
I hate these government giveaways to special classes.
How about taxing our money stolen by the old fart & given to Ukraine & Iran, then sending those tax dollars to the rightful owners – Us?
Biden’s always been a low -life guttersnipe!
Send Us the prjncipal, too.
Why waste the postage con two mailings!
That’s an excellent idea to write it on the receipt and since the left doesn’t tip, it’s a pure MAGA message.
Would be great to not pay the stupid grocery tax for seniors and unemployed as well.
The heavens opened up while Trump was on the golf course and God said, “My son, I have a tip for you. Make tips tax free.”
Satan is pondering what tip he should give Biden to counter God’s idea.
If you really want to screw with the system, pay the server in cash and explain to them that it is not a tip. It is a gift you are giving them and it is not reportable or taxable.
Horrible idea.
It promotes the haves and have nots.
that idea is bs
servers’ salary is very low and their income is supplemented by customer tips
if I have to pay taxes on ALL my income, so should they
and btw I was a server decades ago so I know exactly what I am talking about
As a former waitress, I disagree.
It was a high-stress, crazy busy job.
It was the great tips that made it worth it to make sure you did the *best* job you possibly could and keep a smile on your face no matter how crazy the kitchen got behind the scenes.
Paid for college on my waitress job. Only because of good tips.
No way I’ll begrudge any really good wait staff the opportunity to make top dollar. And that means, no taxes on tips!
As an aside>>>> it’s also a nice kick to the backside of all these Lefties saying Trump “only cares about the rich”. And *that* is a pretty d*mn sweet cherry on top!
It is a safe bet that this will garner a lot more votes for Trump with a much smaller impact to the Treasury than OBiden’s shoddy student loan “forgiveness” gambit.
Also doesn’t have the destructive fallout loan “forgiveness” will have.
Which is>>> Loan “Forgiveness” just encourages these Unis to keep their tuition costs sky high.
And it’s not illegal or unconstituional.
This is brilliant. DJT accomplishes so much with this position. This is an offensive strike against the elites who are planning their technocratic world slavery system. Whose $ is it? Ours or theirs? Brilliant move.
How about abolish the I_RS and get back to pre 1913.
Tips are not required for someone providing excellent service. They are a gift and the IRS exempts gifts up to a certain amount from taxation. Government needs to get out of the idea of mandating that gifts be shared with the government.
Gifts are not mandatory.
We have been trained to pay the wages of certain employees through the use of tips to make up for the difference of what their employer does not pay them.
We have been trained to think we are magnanimous in tipping people when truly they should get paid minimum wage just like everyone else, provide good service like everyone else, and we should get to keep our hard earned already taxed to death money.
Problem solved.
Just like pretty much all of Trump’s policies, it’s all about common sense and doing what’s right for American citizens. You would think that even the dumbest liberal would have figured this out by now.
The problem with untaxed tips will be the replacing of “repay loan” with “tip” in the memo section of all those Biden $100,000 money laundering payments.
That’s a lot of tax on a meal. Roughly 14 percent, and I thought my state/county was bad at 10 percent.
Eliminating Federal tax would eliminate alot of corruption. I never did see why we keep paying yet another middle man to get services we should be able to get directly as needed. Now, the current regime seeks to force all of humanity to get their water, heat, and cooked food by paying an electric company that we have no control over. I prefer the hands on method of using my own water, heating with something some middle man doesnt have his cut of and can turn off when I am cold, and cook my food without worry that my stove will cut out mid roast. It is time the Feds get taken down a peg, and People get control of what we buy, how we cook, and the other amenities of normal life without a dictator lording over everything.
Tax on labor IS slavery!
I am extremely disturbed by the comments against tax relief.
Even some Treepers are obsessed with authoritarian control of the serfs.
Sick, just sick.
13.16 percent taxes. Craziness!
Who on earth reports tips on their income tax return? Must be a USA thing…
Of course it’s a great idea but the government will not be denied a revenue stream.
Bureaucrats will create multiple ways to get around such a law and screw Americans even more.
Smart move considering many people have worked in the service industry at some point in their lives.
Students bartend and waitress to pay off college loans and many Americans work service jobs to help support their family. And when you consider that tips make up about half of someone’s income or more this is a BIG WIN for workers.
It also takes money away from government pork and funding for unnecessary wars.
This idea cuts across all racial lines, all income lines and all political lines.
BRAVO to President Trump!
President Trump HAS proposed the elimination of income tax. The amount of money wasted in Congress should go back to the people…just wait.
Remember the Grace Commission? Under who was that guy, oh yeah, Reagan? Where they reported” “With two thirds of everyone’s personal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100 percent of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the federal debt and by federal government contributions to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services that taxpayers expect from their government.”[5]
We could start there.
When we tip, it is always cash on the table.
Most if not all of the comments surely show that the average American is really uneducated when it comes to Federal taxes as per the constitution. Case in point. The two ways the Federal government can Constitutionally tax the State citizens are “Direct and indirect”. The supreme court ruled several times that the 16th Amendment did NOT create any new means of taxation at the Federal level. They ruled that 16th Amendment is an excise tax on activity. Income is the means of measuring the amount of activity for which an excise tax may be placed. The two most famous of activities for which the indirect tax measured by the amount of activity is tobacco and Alcohol. These two activities manufacturing tobacco and alcohol are spelled out in uncertain terms as activities for which a excise tax is placed and must be paid in no uncertain terms. The activity of state charted corporations, congress has placed a excise tax. Also officers of any corporation are responsible for any excise tax placed upon their activity of running a government created corporation. However, common workers for the corporation is not an activity for which congress cannot erect a excise tax. Why? Because to work for a wage or salary is a constitutional right for which a tax of any kind cannot be placed. Government workers at the state and federal level is a considered a privilege for which an excise tax can be placed. Likewise any licensed occupation such as a medical doctor or dentist all the down to a hair dresser can have an excise tax placed on their privilege. In fact any licensed occupation or profession can have have an excise. The products of manufacturing such as car tires for which an excise is charged passeds the charge the tire retailer who then passes the excise tax on to the customer. Just like the any licensed occupation do. There certain rules in the constitution on direct and indirect taxation. A direct must be equal. Apportionment: Direct taxes, which are taxes that must be paid directly to the government by an individual or business, must be apportioned based on population. This means that the tax burden is distributed evenly among the states based on their population.
An excise tax is ruled by Uniformity: The Constitution requires that taxes be levied uniformly throughout the United States. This means that taxes must be applied equally to all individuals and businesses, without regard to their location or other factors.
A tip in the right direction for sure. 👀
It’s a nice gesture. Very welcome by people in service industries. Heck, maybe a break for consumers on the average size of tips as inflation roars ahead in basic food/agriculture/transport sectors.
What percentage of gross national income comes from tips?
Mr Future President: find a way to make slicing the Federal Registry in half, as you accomplished previously, more permanent.