Fox Business Network host Elizabeth MacDonald exposed the sheer hypocrisy of Vice President Kamala Harris’s sudden advocacy for not taxing tips.
The new Democratic frontrunner shocked senses when she flagrantly ripped off Republican nominee Donald Trump’s “No Tax on Tips” proposal while speaking at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas on Saturday — the state has the highest concentration of tipped workers in the country.
However, as MacDonald noted, the IRS initiated a new program last year that allows tips to be monitored through an employer’s point-of-sale system.
“Kamala Harris’s first big policy idea is to steal Trump’s ‘no taxes on tips,’ when she backed Democrats’ $80b for more IRS audits including on tip income,” MacDonald posted on X. “The Biden-Harris Admin also launched a novel new IRS crackdown on tips, getting the IRS inside the door at bars & restaurants to directly monitor tips at the cash register, ‘at point-of-sale.’ She also backed the $1.7T spending legislation expecting taxpayers to report their $600 phone app transactions to the IRS without she and the Senate reading the bill (later dropped as untenable).”
Kamala Harris’s first big policy idea is to steal Trump’s “no taxes on tips,” when she backed Democrats’ $80b for more IRS audits including on tip income. The Biden-Harris Admin also launched a novel new IRS crackdown on tips, getting the IRS inside the door at bars & restaurants… pic.twitter.com/DO3Z6gKHu0
— Elizabeth MacDonald (@LizMacDonaldFOX) August 11, 2024
Trump responded to the theft of his proposal on Truth Social, insisting Harris would not follow through and actually implement the idea.
He posted: “Kamala Harris, whose ‘Honeymoon’ period is ENDING, and is starting to get hammered in the Polls, just copied my NO TAXES ON TIPS Policy. The difference is, she won’t do it, she just wants it for Political Purposes! This was a TRUMP idea — She has no ideas, she can only steal from me. Remember, Kamala has proposed the LARGEST TAX INCREASE IN HISTORY — It won’t happen. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on the social media platform X:
Does she have an original idea? Normally she follows the script and says liberal talking points. She is the perfect puppet for the deep state. Just like Biden’s four years.
— Charles Watson (@cwatson34) August 11, 2024
She took it because democratic voters in Nevada are switching to Trump.
— Let’s be honest here (@Lovea2ndbaseman) August 11, 2024
That’s good, my kids will be able to spend the extra tip money they keep on Kamala gas price hike.
— Danny ElPaso (@DannyElPaso) August 11, 2024
Another complete REVERSAL in policy to pander to moderates. Once elected, she will revert to no fracking, demand everyone switch to EVs, reimpose tax on tips, puss DEI over equality, etc. A leopard does not change its spots,
— Phil Kessack (@dilligas77) August 11, 2024
She sounds like how John Kerry was in 2004. She was against it before she was for it.
— Walt Penberthy (@TErnestos) August 11, 2024
She knows she can say anything and the regime media will cover for her. No lie is too bold and no hypocrisy is too much.
— Burt Rainey (@BurtRainey) August 11, 2024
It’s just incredible. I keep looking for the hidden camera. https://t.co/J7TQTMBAIm
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) August 11, 2024
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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