Not to mention the fact that most restaurant servers who rely on tipped wages get hit a lot harder with FICA taxes than income tax anyway.
They have to push to the forefront policies and platforms that won’t cause those 20% of people that might not vote to stay home. It has nothing to do with the right not objecting. Of course the Republican campaign will object to anything the other side puts out. That’s their job. It comes down to showing you are the best option to positively affect the lives of the most voter’s. Not showing you are the most virtuous.
At the time I thought the Harris campaign was emphasizing the wrong things. I was very puzzled about some of their choices. No need to rehash the campaign now. There’s no real way of knowing if voters would have gone for Harris even with a different strategy. She was certainly at a disadvantage because of the circumstances of her nomination.
Personally I believe the Democrats are a slight favorite next election unless they shoot themselves in the foot with a bad candidate. They will most likely be going against a limp JD Vance campaign.
The trouble is that this sounds like a preemptive “If the Democrats lose it can only be their own fault” excuse that doesn’t take into account the actively dishonest campaign and multimedia barrage the Republicans will most certainly put forth. While you are looking for the guns Democrats are supposedly aiming at their own feet, you might want to take a glance at all the Republcans brandishing their own political weapons.
At this point I’m in the camp of “I’ll settle for anyone who is honest and actually has the welfare of the country at heart”.
A candidate that can’t handle what the other campaign is throwing at them is a bad candidate.
In your eyes, does this make Trump a “good” candidate?
Or, in other words, is the only answer to cheating, is to cheat even more?
Pretty much, yes.
I recall reading about how Bill Clinton prevented Bush the Elder from bringing up his extramarital affairs by informing the Bush campaign that if they brought it up, he’d reveal Bush’s extramarital affairs. He knew they’d fight dirty, so he was prepared to fight dirty as well. You can’t play chess with somebody who insists on having a fist fight.
I am wondering if Musk will hand the 2028 election to the democrats. If he bankrolls an America Party candidate that would very likely split the MAGA vote. Of course Trump will probably concoct something to attempt to ensure it doesn’t happen but he could well fail to do so.
Could it be that Musk is coming to the realization that his own personal businesses do better under Democratic policies than Republican ones?
Just kidding. Musk doesn’t think much at all, apparently.
A man like Musk decides what he wants the truth to be, then asserts that his fantasy is the reality. Then uses stubbornness and money to force everyone else to go along with the fantasy.
One of those tactics that works quite well, until it doesn’t. Eventually people like him run into someone or something that can’t be bribed or browbeaten, and then they out of tricks.
No Tax on Tips is hardly a GOP idea. Where trump came up with that we will never know.
Right.
There are two issues at play. The first is that tips are most often put on the card, and I definitely do not trust businesses to get the entire tips to the server but take some it for themselves. And, of course, there are instances of automated kiosk things asking for tips, which is all kinds of FU.
And yet it wasn’t put forth by a Democrat running for national office until AFTER it was proposed by a Republican. It may not be the best example of the Democrats co-opting GOP policies but it is how it happened.
California- at least- really stomps down on this.
I am pretty sure that was on some Dems list of talking points, but I cant remember who.
Also note that the no tax on tips thing covers only the first $25K.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5381734-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-no-tax-on-tips/
This article says the idea has a long history-
California has no tip credit, either. Everyone is supposed to get minimum wage, which is nearly as high as that of Oregon or Washington.
Point taken.
So definitely not anyone in the GOP.
This isn’t no tax on tips either. It’s a deduction with various limits. I may be misremembering but from what I understand since the BBB is a reconciliation bill they couldn’t put in a change to the tax code that eliminates a category of tax. Adding a deduction is allowed.
Same story with the “no tax on SS benefits”. That’s totally not what they did. As best I can determine with research, SS benefits are just as taxable as ever. But there is now an extra exemption for oldies which will offset some of their total tax burden. Which burden includes the tax on SS.
And of course, it’s subject to a phase-out so it won’t actually deliver any relief to the professional class. They’ve taken it in the neck in both of trump’s tax bills to fund huge cuts for billionaires and small giveaways to Joe & Jane Lunchbucket.