Trump insists on eliminating tip taxes

Las Vegas. US President Donald Trump capped a frenetic first week back in office with a stop in Las Vegas on Saturday to talk about cutting the tip tax, a 2024 campaign promise he made in the center of play and entertainment.

Trump took the stage before his supporters at the Circa Resort and Casino, in front of a large banner that read No Tax on Tips (No to tip taxes) and said economic confidence is soaring in the United States.

America’s decline is overhe said at the beginning of his speech, echoing the issues raised in his inauguration speech earlier in the week.

Since taking office on Monday, the Republican leader has reversed a host of policies put in place by his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden and made good on his promise to remake and reduce the federal bureaucracy.

In visits Friday to disaster areas in North Carolina and California, Trump promised federal help as states recover from the hurricane and wildfires, after raising the idea of ​​shutting down the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

In Las Vegas, Trump again pressed a less controversial proposal: his promise to end taxation of tip income, a proposal he first made in June while courting service workers in Nevada, the state with the greatest presidential swing.

It would add debt of 7.5 bdd

The hospitality sector, highly dependent on tips, accounts for more than a fifth of all jobs in the state.

Your tips will be 100% yoursTrump said, joking that he will go after the same workers for not reporting their tip income over the past 10 years.

Trump said that a young and beautiful waitress had given him the idea for the policy proposal and he joked that that was the extent of his research.

Trump’s proposals – from extending his 2017 tax cuts to abolishing the tip tax, overtime and Social Security benefits – could add $7.5 trillion to the country’s debt over the next decade, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan organization.