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b-boy bouiebaisse@jbouie.bsky.social |
like, why is anyone treating this like a serious proposal? the trump department of labor wanted to make it easier for employers to steal tips for christssake! he has an actual record!
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Jeremiah🏳️🌈
@jeremiahrappel.bsky.social
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Additionally, no one seems to question why Trump presented this idea to a group of millionaires rather than to the workers who rely on tips. The reason is clear: the plan benefits the owners more than the workers.
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@truerg.bsky.social
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Could be true; who wants to pay taxes on the tips they steal?
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Gerkuman
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If trump (or biden) really cared, they'd amend the laws to force the states to stop allowing employers to deduct average/expected tips from workers' minimum wages Just putting it out there.
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Coriolus Nimrod
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I think it all comes out of the assumption that Trump has no principled positions on anything, so policy-wise, he is a tabula rasa who could be for or against anything on any given day.
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Redshoe
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I’m just thankful you and many others are going crazy with it all too. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve yelled out, “ What the fuck is happening? “Have they Lost their damn minds?”
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David Colborne
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Nevada. He thinks he's found a wedge issue that might actually throw the state in his direction for once.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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I didn't realize Clarence Thomas was paying taxes on his tips in the first place.
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David Hunt
@dhunt.bsky.social
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The only way Trump would actually try to make tip income tax free is if he thought that he could make a large part of his own income classify as tips
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Shriketastic
@shriketastic.bsky.social
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“ANALYSIS: What if Charlie Brown had hoes?”
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@jojosbizarrelife.bsky.social
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That's the combo. Make tips tax free and then incentivize employers to steal them.
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The Loony Liberal - Writer / Content Creator
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Convicted felon Donald Trump also proposed bleach enemas and horse dewormer as treatments for COVID-19, so to say that I'm skeptical is an understatment. That, and there's the whole "Companies should pay their workers living wages and not pass the buck to consumers" root problem.
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Ozma
@rowyourbot.bsky.social
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Yes, it makes you want to scream. It's as if reporting is a DEAD LETTER. There is always so much missing context and information from every news story.
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L Chupacabra: The Pope Of Chili Town
@lchupacabra.bsky.social
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I mean
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Nobody Ever
@frambley1.bsky.social
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I can't figure out why anyone treats anything he proposes seriously. He always contradicts himself later. I think he even claimed he never said Mexico would pay for his wall.
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Anna Rompage
@urbanfarmer3321.bsky.social
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So Trump wants to make tips tax free for business owners that steal them…
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Chrisby
@chrisbyc.bsky.social
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This is all about him again. If, and only if . . . Putin, Xi, KJU, they can give lots of gratuity to TFG and he doesn't have to pay taxes on it. Everything he does is always about him. There is no generosity involved.
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Lego Dolemite
@psychoalpastor.bsky.social
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Also if you genuinely wanted those workers to get more money you would just close the minimum wage loophole that keeps them dependent on tips anyway.
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@peterkurze.bsky.social
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God damn the goddamn fucking horse race press to hell and beyond!!! This isn’t some game without consequences!!! Where are the 10,000 articles about what a goddamn lying menace that asshole is??? Complacency is the enemy of the people!!!
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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"oh who knows what Trump will do on abortion" we do! we know! he was a notably anti-abortion president!
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ok city ok
@krogerfoot.bsky.social
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Reporters got hooked on the daily amnesia pills they took all during the Trump administration. The only way to fit commentary on Trump into a news-shaped vessel is to studiously ignore everything you know about him
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Back to the jorts
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It's just pointless pandering for votes and he has no intent to follow through with it, yet he's just allowed to lie by the media and they amplify his lies
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One of many Dans
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But it's important to remember that the Trump of their own imaginations has never been President. It would be unfair to judge and punish a dream for the failure of reality.
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Kevin Collins
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Maybe that’s his policy? Your boss keeps your tips, and they don’t pay taxes on them
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🔞MisterStupid🔞
@misterstupid.bsky.social
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He's making it so that employers don't have to pay tax on the tips they steal.
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Chris Brockett
@chrisbrockett.bsky.social
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So he's going to make "gratuities" to judges tax free?
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John Bracken
@johnnybdc.bsky.social
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to maintain the chosen media narrative of Trump requires, as a starting point, a posture of total amnesia.
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Some Dumb Guy
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Lizard
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As the SC just decided giving a politician 13 grand after he'd passed a law favoring you was "just a tip", it's obvious Trump's goal is to make sure he doesn't pay taxes when he's bribed.
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HappyKaijuStompyTime
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when trump says 'tips' he means amounts the average american could retire on paid to SCotUS justices to rule in favor of rich white assholes.
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Reconstructed exPat
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It is like team Trump's experience with tabloids somehow gives them an edge in exploiting the worst habits of American news organizations.
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Carl - Property of Bundas the Puli
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I dare say this has been misinterpreted, what it actually means is that political tips and gratuities i.e. Lobbyist monies are going to be tax free.
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The Fig Economy
@figgityfigs.bsky.social
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He has so little policy focus that this may well be the substantive center of his campaign to this point.
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@dmlundeen.bsky.social
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It’s not serious. A serious proposal would be abolishing tipping as the barbaric practice it is and paying service workers the same wages other hourly workers get.
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David Kaye
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we are in the midst of the trump normalization cycle. hopefully the debate will show him for what he is, but it has led to a spate of stories treating his "policies" as something to compare to democratic platforms.
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Travelling Will
@airelbonia.bsky.social
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If it's in any way serious, it would be making it tax free for the employers who steal the tips and not the employees.
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Luigi 🐈⬛ Tuxedo Cat Purrs
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I'm gonna go out on a lilb and say the small-hznd man missed the litterbox on this one.
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Kate W
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Absolutely - both the overview of "said a lotta things he then didn't do" and the specifics of his record on issues seem VERY relevant in assessing him as a candidate.
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