Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge.
Will Donald Trump end tax on tips? Will he go all the way and end tax on everything?
During the campaign, our 47th president made a big, beautiful series of promises about things he would exempt from the tyrannical income tax that preys upon our fair republic.
Trump started with “no tax on tips” in June, inspired by a “very smart waitress” he met dining in Las Vegas and subsequently introduced as the No Tax on Tips Act by Sen. Ted Cruz.
Happily, what happened in Vegas did not stay in Vegas, as Trump embarked upon a cascade of income tax exemptions, from overtime pay to Social Security, then first responders, and even America’s 16 million veterans.
Capping it all off with Trump’s musing on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast that we should…
