The no tax on tips provision of Donald Trump’s budget cannot be the pro-labor gift that the president has made it out to be while the rest of the bill slashes health care and other social programs for lower-income people. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shed some light as to why that’s the case.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      They apparently don’t realize that. I have no idea what’s in the mind of people voting so against their own interests, but

      • if they’re low information, she speaks up to communicate more
      • if they’re gullible, she speaks up to get them to realize
      • if people have a general despair, she speaks up to connect that to the perpetrator.
      • if people have no attention span, she speaks up to keep it in the spotlight
      • if people think “both sides the same”, she speaks up to say we’re different

      At this moment I guarantee you that way too many people still think we’re reducing ” waste, fraud and abuse”, that Trump understands business, way too many people believe 150 year old dead immigrants are ruining our Medicaid. In the next congressional election, only a little more of a year from now, I guarantee you that far too many voters will have forgotten this issue existed or who created it, believe that this time Republicans support family values and being fiscally responsible.

      • thedruid@lemmy.world
        67·
        2 days ago

        If both sides weren’t the same, Trump’s bills would never pass and alligator alcateaz wouldn’t be a reality. .Dems voted yes to these things

        Both parties need to go. Downvote if you want (a useless action as has been the Dem leadership )kids but remember, the Republicans feel the same way you do when told that.