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Should the government eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers?

During the 2024 Presidential campaign Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both proposed ending federal income taxes on workers tips. The “no tax on tips” pitch garnered bipartisan support since Mr. Trump first floated it in June 2024, including from Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican, and both of Nevada’s Democratic senators, Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen. Tips are currently taxable income, but the Internal Revenue Service has long struggled to get employers and workers to report that income accurately. The U.S. offers employers a tax credit to encourage accurate…  

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 @9ZNQL2C from Michigan  answered…5mos5MO

Tips should be optional and workers provided with a livable wage so they don't need to survive off of Tips.

 @9S9C9MH from Florida  answered…8mos8MO

No, because I feel like the companies should be paying their employees enough money to where we don't have to pay more than we already did. Basically, it's about companies not being greedy and paying little amount of money to their employees.

 @9YBS5MM from Utah  answered…6mos6MO

No, but minimum wage for these workers should be the same as everyone else instead of assuming they'll get tips

 @9SBZ6XR from Texas  answered…8mos8MO

All service industry employees should be paid a living wage BEFORE tips, and tips should not be taxed.

 @9SBYW42 from Illinois  answered…8mos8MO

As someone who has never been employed at a minimum wage job, or for that matter any job as of yet, i was unaware you had to pay for your received tips. In my mind the tip is saying like: Here you did a wonderful job at serving me and to thank you have this gift of some money. So yes, they should be eliminated. a gift should not be taxed

 @9SC5KTH  from Michigan  answered…8mos8MO

Tipping should be eliminated as a wage category, and current tip wage employers should be required to pay the minimum wage to all employees.

 @9SBCVVB from New York  answered…8mos8MO

Service and hospitality workers should be paid equitably and tips shouldn’t account for a significant amount of their pay. There should be a tax on tips over a certain amount and incentive to report tip income accurately for the employer.

 @9SBCYP5 from Massachusetts  answered…8mos8MO

No, and we should get rid of "tipped minimum-wage." It's time to stop allowing companies to force their labor costs onto the consumer.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…6mos6MO

Axis of Desperation: Russia Recruits North Korean Soldiers in Ukraine War

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III confirmed on Wednesday that North Korea had sent troops to Russia to join the fight against Ukraine, a major shift in Moscow’s effort to win the war. Mr. Austin called the North’s presence a “very, very serious” escalation that would have ramifications in both Europe and Asia.“What exactly are they doing?” Mr. Austin told reporters at a military base in Italy after a trip to Ukraine. “Left to be seen.” He gave no details about the number of troops already there or the number expected to arrive.Mr. Austin cast President Vladimir V. Putin’s need for North Korean mercenaries as a sign of desperation.“This is an indication that he may be in even more trouble than most people realize,” he said. “He went tin-cupping early on to get additional weapons and materials from the D.P.R.K.,’’ he said, using the abbreviation for Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, “and then from Iran, and now he’s making a move to get more people.”But he said intelligence analysts were still trying to discern whether the troops were moving toward Ukraine.Ukrainian officials insist they are headed there, and Ukraine’s defense minister was quoted on Wednesday saying he expected to see North Korean troops in Kursk, the Russian territory that Ukraine has occupied, in the coming days.Mr. Austin’s statement came as American intelligence officials said they were preparing to release a trove of intelligence, including satellite photographs, that show troop ships moving from North Korea to training areas in Vladivostok on Russia’s east coast and other Russian territory further to the north.For two weeks, there have been reports of the movements, fueled by the Ukrainian and South Korean governments, that more than 12,000 North Koreans were training to fight alongside Russian soldiers.American officials have said they estimate that 2,500 North Korean troops have been dispatched. But they made no estimate of how many more might follow, or even how well they might perform on territory that the North’s conscripts have never fought in, amid fellow fighters who speak a different language.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…5mos5MO

Kamala Harris is considering running for president again in 2028

Kamala Harris has been lying low since her defeat in the presidential race, unwinding with family and senior aides in Hawaii before heading back to the nation’s capital.But privately, the vice president has been instructing advisers and allies to keep her options open — whether for a possible 2028 presidential run, or even to run for governor in her home state of California in two years. As Harris has repeated in phone calls, “I am staying in the fight.”She is expected to explore those and other possible paths forward with family members over the winter holiday season, according to five people in the Harris inner circle, who were granted anonymity to discuss internal dynamics. Her deliberations follow an extraordinary four months in which Harris went from President Joe Biden’s running mate to the top of the ticket, reenergizing Democrats before ultimately crashing on election night.“She doesn’t have to decide if she wants to run for something again in the next six months,” said one former Harris campaign aide. “The natural thing to do would be to set up some type of entity that would give her the opportunity to travel and give speeches and preserve her political relationships.”“She doesn’t have to decide if she wants to run for something again in the next six months,” said one former Harris campaign aide. “The natural thing to do would be to set up some type of entity that would give her the opportunity to travel and give speeches and preserve her political relationships.”Harris concedes: 'We must accept the results of this election'SharePlay VideoMost immediately, Harris and her advisers are working to define how and when she will speak out against Donald Trump and reassert her own role in the Democratic Party. Closing out her term as vice president, she’s set to preside over certifying the November election she lost to Trump, and then appear at the once-and-future president’s inauguration on Jan. 20.“There will be a desire to hear her voice, and there won’t be a vacuum for long,” a person close to Harris said.At the same time, Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, will have a long checklist to plow through before they leave the Naval Observatory for good.They have to decide whether they’ll take up permanent residence at their home in Los Angeles, or establish a base elsewhere. No matter where Harris and her family live, some around her have expressed concerns about safety, as her Secret Service protection expires six months after stepping away.

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