…and where they haven’t worn out their welcome by not paying bills for the police overtime associated with prior rallies.
(In fairness, the Trump campaign’s response to those bills has been “the Secret Service insisted on that level of security, and therefore the feds should be paying those costs”.)
It should, but we need more ways to advantage certain individuals at the expense of others depending on what their source of income is rather than create one tax structure that applies to everyone regardless of source of income.
Oh, I always tip the pre-tax amount.
Wait, that would be “no tips on taxes.”
Carry on.
How about “no tips” period, especially when asked at a kiosk prior to service being rendered, as if it were more like, “tip us now else you get the ‘special sauce’”?
Getting your roof fixed? That’s going to be $12,000, or $10 with a mandatory $11,000 tip.
No taxes on tips is such an unnecessary proposal targeting a group for no particular purpose. It’s about a step up from “chocolate milk in the drinking fountains”. Part of me is a touch disappointed Harris picked up on it, but I get it at the same time. It’s a “nothing-proposal” that hurts nothing to support, hurts nothing if it’s never done, and hurts nothing if it’s done.
By just saying she supports it too, she takes away some of Trump’s projected image of being “for the everyman”. Instead it’s, “Okay, so he supports that. Me too, big deal. Back to important things.”
I agree with this, it really depends on the place. Where Mrs. Hoffman went to school? Very clearly not a sundown town, there was a > 15% black population there and it contributed to the town in many positive ways.
The place where I grew up, 15 miles away? Very definitely a sundown town, it was like that even as recently as 25 years ago. Not totally as anti-progress as what Rastlin described, but definitely not friendly to outsiders and then complains about people not wanting to bring businesses to the area while much of the government is run by people at least 65 years old and positions are I like you, so I’ll put you in a spot of importance regardless of how unqualified you are.
How much actual tax would be payable on tips for the average fast food worker? It would be negligible here but I don’t know how the US income tax system works for low income individuals.
I would rather see service workers paid a decent wage so that tips would be unnecessary the way they are in several European countries. With tipping I am never sure how much of the tip even actually goes to the specific worker.
We bought an ice cream cake for my son’s birthday and they spent a couple minutes writing happy birthday on it.
The cake itself was like $40 and then the thing comes up suggesting 18%, 20% or 25% and I look at it like how am I tipping $8 for 2 minutes of work?? So I clicked none and then felt guilty…
Just thinking aloud here, is this not something coming from polling hence why it is getting unexpected attention?
It probably came from a random person complaining to Trump and him rolling with it.
Interestingly, tipping wasn’t taxed pre-Reagan. And cash tips tend to be under reported, so a growing fraction of tips are taxed as people shift more towards cards and away from cash.
Ding ding ding.
I got my information from a very smart waitress.
I’m at the point where unless it’s sit-down service I won’t tip. Oh, add a tip of 18%, 20% or more for you ordering food and driving here and me getting the food from the kitchen and bringing it to you. No, that’s part of your job. I’m not paying you extra to do your job.
Any place that tacks on an automatic 18% or so is one I won’t patronize. As in literally, I will get up if I see that on the menu and leave. If you’re that hard up for money, increase your prices 18%.
Again, we’ve gotten so far away from sensible taxation that we’re incentivizing businesses to do shitty stuff - and then we want government to come in and regulate the shitty stuff that businesses do. Which, there’s already enough shitty stuff that businesses do that require regulation, we don’t need to create or strengthen a feedback loop for that.
My town still sucks. Topix when it still existed gave some pretty good insights into the attitudes that were fairly common. This was just few years ago.
Perhaps do a custom tip and put in 8 cents. That way they think you tried to tip but forgot to put the zeros in. “Silly me. Me no math”
According to a top Trump campaign volunteer who has held notable GOP leadership positions, Trump is considered to have no chance in New Hampshire and is poised to lose worse than in 2016 and 2020. Correspondingly the campaign, including surrogates, has not visited and has announced no plans to visit New Hampshire.
To the degree that you believe polls, it looks like New Hampshire has swung from about +2 Trump versus Biden to instead be +7 to Harris versus Trump. Harris will be in New Hampshire this week.
The campaign fired the volunteer who sent the email and has not commented on it.
“That is not the truth we want told.”
Emperor’s new campaign.
I gotta say, I’m loving the way that the GOP is dumping so many volunteers while also sucking up all the down-ballot money for Trump’s legal expenses.
My state’s GOP has been following suit, basically eating their own as certain groups tried to out-MAGA other groups. It’s funny to watch the statewide GOP at each other’s throats, calling each other traitors and enemies while they spend donor money suing each other.
Meanwhile, in the party that isn’t spending some $100,000,000 of donor money for their candidate’s crimes: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/03/harris-campaign-down-ballot-spending-00177075
To be fair, they don’t even know the guy. Never heard of him. He was a coffee boy, ran a few errands.
Obviously planted by the Deep State. Trump is a really smart guy, hires only the best people. One of them hired this Deep State infiltrator, no one else caught on who it really was.
trump’s businesses employ many people who rely on tips. people working in hotels and golf courses. paying them a better wage is bad for trump.
