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.
That’s been my tinfoil hat theory about all this too. Tipped workers are usually the lower rungs of the economic ladder. If they can “prove” they actually make a good deal more than they’ve historically claimed, then they can shed those “hungry mouths” from SNAP and other welfare programs.
This whole thing feels like a trap. I can’t say with confidence where the trap is, but it just feels like its there, ya know?