The no tax on tips provision of Donald Trump’s budget cannot be the pro-labor gift that the president has made it out to be while the rest of the bill slashes health care and other social programs for lower-income people. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shed some light as to why that’s the case.

  • DahGangalang@infosec.pub
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    20 hours ago

    AOC:

    “The cap on that is $25,000. While you’re jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,00 across the United States…So if you’re at home and you’re living off tips, you do the math. Is that worth it to you?..This bill is a deal with the devil. It explodes our national debt…To give Elon Musk a tax break and billionaires the greedy taking of our nation? We can not stand for it, and we will not support it.”

    (its unclear from this quote if that’s no tax on $25,000 in gross income for tipped workers; the first $25,000 in tips; or if there are no taxes on those for those who make under $25,000 per year. None of the possible meaning is a good one, to be clear)

    Article isn’t actually that long and is effectively a short rant AOC gave. Still annoyed with OP for click bait title without substance in post.

    • Tony Bark@pawb.socialOPEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      Still annoyed with OP for click bait title without substance in post.

      Sorry. Try my best to avoid that.

          • boydster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            15 hours ago

            I still hope for midterm that can steer us away from the cliff. As an American, I need that hope. We are, historically, a hopeful people (albeit one with many atrocities along the way).

            An unimaginable amount of damage is being done right now by the current administration. There are people who have died and who will die because of the cuts made in the last 6 months, and the people whose lives have and will be snuffed out early are unrecoverable entirely. Imagine Socrates, DaVinci, Newton, Einstein, Hawkins… not allowed the chance to live and gift all of humanity with their insights. We have no idea what we lost nor what we will lose, and no way of knowing.

            The hope I hold onto is that we can stop the bleeding and begin to heal. Midterms are our best opportunity at that before things have a chance to really accelerate into even more fascistic behavior.

            MAGA country is going to feel the pain of their tiny penis deal when the rulers pass it, and they are already seeing pain from ICE raids on farms and factories. When the slackjaws catch on to the fact that they’re being fleeced, the charade should end pretty quick and the number of people actively opposing the administration will increase accordingly.

            I hope.

        • DahGangalang@infosec.pub
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          19 hours ago

          It’d be as a grain of rice to a starving family, but I hope the Democrats pick it up as part of their platform.

      • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        20 hours ago

        Surely that means the tax breaks for billionaires will expire in 2028 too? Right?

        …right?..