Kamala Harris has made her first major policy announcement since being handed the nomination by a cabal of Democrat elites. During a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday night, Harris said that, as president, she would end the IRS collecting tax on tips.
If that sounds familiar, that’s because Donald Trump took the same policy position back in June. In true Kamala Harris fashion, after going almost a month with no policy platform, her first move was to steal a plank from her opponent’s platform. You can’t make this stuff up. That’s how absurd the 2024 election cycle is.
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Still, Harris even managed to screw up the announcement, mispronouncing “hospitality” in the process. She better watch out because that teleprompter she’s tied to will reach out and bite you.
HARRIS: And eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitility workers!
Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane because it’s going to be instructive.
Harris was for banning fracking before she was against it. She was for defunding the police before she was against it. She was for a federal gun buyback program before she was against it. She was for decriminalizing illegal immigration before she was against it. She was for eliminating private health insurance before she was against it.
Believe it or not, this “no tax on tips thing” is yet another flip-flop from Harris and perhaps her most egregious. While the positions listed above were rhetorical commitments, she was the deciding vote for the law on the expansion of the IRS that specifically targets people who don’t pay taxes on tips. Again, you can’t make this stuff up.
The Inflation Reduction Act gave boatloads of new money to the IRS, including enabling it to hire 87,000 new agents over the next ten years. What did that same IRS announce in early 2023 with the support of the Biden-Harris administration (which runs the agency) less than a year after the Inflation Reduction Act went into effect? A crackdown on people who don’t report tips as income so it can be taxed.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) proposed a revenue procedure this week to crack down on the service industry’s reporting of tips.
The Service Industry Tip Compliance Agreement (SITCA) program would be a voluntary tip reporting system in which the IRS and service industry companies cooperate, according to the announcement Monday. As part of the proposal, the IRS will give the public until early May to provide feedback on the program before implementing it.
“Those 87,000 new IRS agents that you were promised would only target the rich,” tweeted Mike Palicz, federal affairs manager at Americans for Tax Reform. “They’re coming after waitresses’ tips now.”
Are we supposed to believe Harris is truly going to take office and simply do the opposite of everything she’s said and done until now? I’m not even for the “no tax on tips” policy for reasons I’ve explained briefly elsewhere, but if service workers who are for it fall for this bait-and-switch, they deserve the consequences.
Harris is a focus-grouped mirage. She doesn’t believe in anything which is why she constantly changes her positions based on which way she feels the wind is blowing. When she takes the reins of power, though, she consistently does the most far-left insanity imaginable. Anyone buying this new “moderate” version she and her handlers have created is a sucker.
So, how are members of the vaunted press handling this? Here’s a writer for The Washington Post to give you an idea.
You can expect “No tax on tips” to become an amazing, absolutely incredible idea now that Harris has stolen it. With that said, the reason this is happening is simple. Both Trump and Harris want to win Nevada, which is why both made this announcement there. The state is full of service workers who rely on tips as income. Politically speaking, Harris taking the position is smart. Again, though, any service worker who believes she’ll follow through, given her contrary record, is playing the fool.
