Newsweek put out this ridiculous headline on social media yesterday and it got a lot of obvious attention:
The main response was… “That’s because it’s Donald Trump’s tax proposal.”
Exactly.
The actual article defends Kamala even though she stole the policy proposal from Trump:
The majority of Americans support plans to end federal taxes on tips given to service industry workers, according to an exclusive poll for Newsweek which shows why Kamala Harris embraced the policy plan first announced by her opponent Donald Trump.
The survey run by Redfield & Wilton Strategies on July 29 among 1,750 eligible voters in the U.S. showed that 67 percent of Americans believe that tips given to service workers should not be taxed. At the time of the survey, conducted before Harris pledged to cut taxes on tips, Republicans were slightly more in favor of the policy (68 percent) than Democrats (65 percent).
Plans to cut federal taxes on tips were first announced by Trump in Las Vegas, Nevada, in early June. “This is the first time I’ve said this, and for those hotel workers and people that get tips, you’re going to be very happy because when I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes on tips people [are] making,” the Republican nominee told the June 9 rally’s crowd.
After Trump’s announcement, the policy proposal was formally adopted as part of the Republican National Committee’s 2024 platform.
During a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday, Harris—who formally secured the Democratic presidential nomination last Monday—announced the same policy proposal to an equally enthusiastic crowd.
“When I am president, we will continue our fight for working families of America, including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers,” the vice president said.
On the same night, Harris received the endorsement of the Culinary Union, the largest union in the state of Nevada which represents 60,000 hospitality workers, who’d benefit the most from the policy.
While Trump immediately accused Harris of being a “copycat” with “no imagination” on his social media platform Truth Social, the vice president’s decision to embrace a policy proposal first announced by her rival shows just how popular a move ending taxes on tips could be.
Considering that 68 percent of Republicans support the policy proposal, according to our recent poll, the plan could help Harris sway GOP voters unconvinced by Trump’s candidacy toward supporting her in the November election.
It’s amazing just how much the garbage media will run to the defense of Kamala even though she’s flip flopping on policies and won’t answer questions or do interviews. Heck, she wouldn’t even do an interview for the glowing Time Magazine article yesterday.
Now she literally steals a proposal that Trump came up with and she can still do no wrong. Trump is right, she has no imagination and she won’t actually follow through on this. She’s just saying it to try and get elected.