No Taxes on Tips or Anything Else
Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are on the same page when it comes tipping. They both want to abolish taxes on tips. Of course, this should not surprise anyone. This is a presidential election year, when presidential candidates have to please the voters and purchase their votes. What better way to do so in the state of Nevada, a key swing state, and elsewhere than by promising to abolish income taxes for workers who receive tips?
I’ve got a better idea. Why don’t we abolish taxes not just on tips but also on all other forms of income?
Given that we have all been born and raised under a federal income-tax system, I’m sure that to many Americans that would sound like a really radical and outrageous suggestion. After all, with no income taxes, how would the government fund Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, farm subsidies, and other welfare-state programs? How would it fund invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and other countries? How would it fund foreign aid to Israel, Ukraine, Egypt, and other foreign regimes? How would it fund the drug war? How would it fund America’s immigration police state along the border? How would it fund state-sponsored assassinations, torture, and indefinite detention? How would it fund the national-security establishment — i.e., the Pentagon, C
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