Did I hear right? Trump wants to drop income taxes on tips?

@sunsporter1649 Democrats are taxing, taxing, taxing hard-working people to give away all sorts of goodies to the homeless and illegals, who pay nothing.

@graphite

@graphite NOPE! It's all the same bag... it doesn't matter who runs the government, YOU WILL pay taxes! Check this out by going back over your tax forms from when the Govt was Republican as well as when it was Dems....(Don't forget to adjust for inflation and pay raises).

@JollyRoger The US federal income tax was launched by a Democrat. Of course, it's still here 100 years later despite a bunch of Republican presidents since then.

@graphite :( 50 years ago I attended a Bob Dole townhall type meeting where someone raised the subject of how self employed people were being fuc--d over by the way the IRS favored employer paid health care insurance while forcing that 7% exclusion on medical expenses, etc. Dole agreed that it was horribly unfair. BUT (he said) that tax changes had to be revenue neutral. i.e. the government need to collect taxes was greater than the need to tax the people fairly. So there was the man at or very near the tip-top of the Republican party telling us that fairness was less important than politics or the government's need to take your money. That's the moment I became an independent.

@Heartlander Republiwimps - Republicans who know what needs to be done but are afraid to do it - remain a problem to this day. But they need the support. GW Bush tried to move the failing Social Security system to the stock market, which always offers more money than how Social Security is run now. He was quickly skewered as touching the "third rail" of American politics and never accomplished what he wanted to do.

@graphite Bingo!!