No Tax On Tips
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris told a crowd in Nevada that she would eliminate taxes on workers’ tips if she becomes president, just two months after former President Donald Trump made the same proposal. Trump said he embraced the idea of no tax on tips after a Nevada waitress who served his table explained that the government was taking too much of her money. The proposal was then added to the GOP’s 2024 platform.
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| 1:01.8 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, |
| 1:08.8 | this is Tangle. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle |
| 1:24.3 | podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, |
| 1:32.0 | some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the no tax on tips policy, which is being proposed |
| 1:38.1 | by pretty much everybody now, originally a Trump idea, I'd say. So we're going to jump in and explain what's happening there |
| 1:46.9 | and why. Before we do, though, we do have two small but notable corrections, actually, |
| 1:52.7 | from yesterday's podcast. First, in the introduction to yesterday's issue, we referred to Tim Walz's |
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