Kamala Harris has been tight-lipped so far on her 2024 campaign policy positions. This has even forced some Leftist media allies like the talking heads over at CNN and MSNBC to start signaling to her that they can’t stay silent on policy for too long, lest she risk trying to having the bottom of her campaign fall out with independent voters in swing states unable to rally around anything she actually believes in.
So far she’s been “correcting” herself from just four years ago and rejecting everything she believed in during her 2020 campaign and throughout the Biden administration. There is one new policy she is promoting, though. Oddly enough, it’s one that isn’t even unique to her. It’s straight robbery and theft of a policy that Donald Trump has made popular for several months now. That is, of course, “No Tax on Tips”.
Donald Trump first made this policy popular when he brought it to national attention in the first half of the year during a rally. Since then, he’s been proud to declare that the Republican Party is getting behind him on the idea of letting people who make a living off of tips keep their earnings without it being ruthlessly taxed by IRS overlords.
Trump: "We shouldn't have people pay tax on tips…NO TAX ON TIPS, okay? It's done, done! We need to spread the word so that every time you leave a tip for the next 5 months you put on the receipt, 'Vote for Trump because there's no tax on tips.'" pic.twitter.com/DGgiIPEuWa
— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) June 15, 2024
Donald Trump was even successful in getting the Republican Party to make it a key point in their 2024 Party platform that was released ahead of the Republican convention where Donald Trump was officially nominated as the GOP candidate for President. So what did Kamala Harris think was a good idea? Well steal this massively popular policy that is primarily being pushed by Donald Trump.
At a campaign stop in Las Vegas, on August 10th, Kamala Harris announced that she supported the elimination of taxes on tips. Interestingly, Donald Trump made this very same announcement months ahead of her in the exact same city during a rally in early June. It’s almost like she chose to make this proclamation at her Las Vegas stop intentionally, acknowledging how absolutely unashamed she is of her phony “policy positions.” She wants to claim whatever policy position she thinks is popular to be hers, especially if it’s one that Donald Trump champions.
Kamala Harris a fraud!!
It was just last year the IRS under Biden-Harris made plans to crack down on tips.
NOW, she's stealing Donald Trump's "NO TAX ON TIPS" #CopyCatKamala #LyingKamalaCredit: @ChewiesMama777 pic.twitter.com/b5xiRBpgyl
— Steve Gruber (@stevegrubershow) August 11, 2024
The idea of no taxes on tips has been around for a while. Libertarian candidates and political strategists have said that it’s a net positive for the American people if those relying on generosity wages aren’t burdened by the weight of the federal government’s endless appetite for more taxpayer dollars. So no one is claiming Donald Trump is the original architect of this idea. It’s been around for decades.
That being said, Donald Trump is the only national candidate for President in the past few elections who has had the courage to make it a key part of his campaign. He didn’t do it in 2016 or 2020, but Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden didn’t either. Donald Trump is the one who saw that it would be a huge boon for the American people and wanted to champion it himself.
Can Kamala Harris honestly say she would have championed no taxes on tips if it wasn’t for Donald Trump doing it first? Does anyone find that believable? No, because nothing about her is believable. She has a serious political credibility issue, and she always has.
What’s absolutely insane is that the media will try to play defense for Kamala Harris and the Democrats no matter how bad the optics are. They used to claim that Trump’s no tax on tips plan was “dangerous” and presents a financial problem for the federal government. Now that Harris is promoting the idea, the media will find it best to not poke too many holes in the popular position.
Not only that, but in 2022, Kamala Harris would cast the tie-breaking vote that was necessary to pass a bill that would allow the IRS to spend more money on tracking down tips in the service industry that are taxable. So now, all of a sudden, she wants to outright eliminate these taxes? The taxable tips that she wanted to ensure were tracked down by the IRS so the federal government could get their greedy hands on hard earned cash? Give it a break.
Democrats Playing Different Ball Game With The Media Refs Always Behind Them
For anyone paying attention, it is astonishing seeing how quickly the mainstream media will twist narratives in favor of the Washington, D.C. bureaucrats and especially any rank-and-file Democrats.
Child Tax Credits have been on the mind over the past few weeks, as the U.S. Senate rejected a bill that many Republican Senators and even Bernie Sanders would say didn’t go far enough to provide tax relief for parents. They wanted to pass a bill with even better tax credits rather than just giving them American taxpaying parents the status quo runaround.
Recently, J.D. Vance said that the Child Tax Credit should actually be more than doubled to $5,000 per child up from its existing $2,000 per child. So what was the media’s response now that J.D. Vance and the Republicans were proposing a massive increase in tax relief for parents? Well they could claim that those “mean Republicans” were trying to crackdown on middle income Americans anymore, so they just declared the J.D. $5,000 tax credit proposal to be “too much”. They say it creates a “spending problem.”
JD Vance says he wants to boost the Child Tax Credit to $5,000 per child from its current $2,000 — an effort that could add trillions in federal spending, according to policy experts. https://t.co/OR5uL5Bv13
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 12, 2024
Donald Trump isn’t just running against Kamala Harris and the Democrat machine. He’s running against a politically-centralized media apparatus that will play ball for Kamala Harris and the Democrats whenever they make a phone call.
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