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I wish at the very least that any of his stupid ass tax cuts supplied me with so much as $1.00
No tax on tips! (Well I don’t make tips and no one was reporting their tips anyway)
No tax on overtime (well I work for the government where there has been a freeze on overtime for 10 years. Plus eliminating the FLSA will mean there’s no such thing as OT anyway)
No tax on social security! I don’t currently receive social security, and neither do my parents who paid into an alternative system.
And all his other “tax cuts” were more than offset by the SALT caps.
Sno.I wish at the very least that any of his stupid ass tax cuts supplied me with so much as $1.00
No tax on tips! (Well I don’t make tips and no one was reporting their tips anyway)
No tax on overtime (well I work for the government where there has been a freeze on overtime for 10 years. Plus eliminating the FLSA will mean there’s no such thing as OT anyway)
No tax on social security! I don’t currently receive social security, and neither do my parents who paid into an alternative system.
And all his other “tax cuts” were more than offset by the SALT caps.
No tax on overtime is cool, wish I got ot, but doesn't help people working multiple jobs,.
Tipping culture already sucks in the US and this will probably just make it worse.
PartyBullshiitWell I think the issue is more about who can vote or not. How to do have a fair election if a portion of your country can’t get to the polls?
if Mexico invaded us and the southern states couldn’t vote is that really a fair election?
I get that, but suspending elections doesn't seem like the right answer, however I don't have a better one.
PartyBullshiitWell I think the issue is more about who can vote or not. How to do have a fair election if a portion of your country can’t get to the polls?
if Mexico invaded us and the southern states couldn’t vote is that really a fair election?
Mexico cant invade us though. I think a big problem(not necessarily with your post) is that America has oceans as it's best defense. It's also why we're xenophobic af. I kinda wish wore would touch us one time. We would were everything differently.
Unfortunately ignorant people that never leave their home county are experts on foreign affairs.
We live in wild times.
But yeah, our oceans are a bigger asset than our military imo.
Also why the fuck do we have military bases in so many countries when most of our invasions have been a bad call.
Idk shit's gone next level now. Not even worth discussing I guess
.MASSHOLE.Can one of the anti-Ukraine individuals justify, to me, why we've banned the UK from sharing US intelligence with Ukraine.
How in the world is that "saving lives"?
**This post was edited on Mar 5th 2025 at 6:16:44am
not anti-ukraine in the slightest.
but i suspect all of this "pro-russia" action and rhetoric of late is to lure Putin to the negotiating table. This, however, does not justify Trump and Vance's childish behaviour in front of Zelenskyy
Democrats are still hitting rock bottom! They can't stand for Laken Rileys family. (Joe Biden called her Lincoln) a child fighting brain cancer, a young man who lost his father who just got accepted to West Point, or a steel worker foster parent.
I'm retiring from this thread. There's nothing left to say to the crying liberals. 2028 is already a lock. Hang those Ukrainian flags though.
This should never be a defense. Our politics are going to go further and further into the shitter if both sides keep justifying dumb shit because the other side did it in the past. Either believe something is acceptable for both sides or neither.
**This post was edited on Mar 5th 2025 at 10:54:43am
Restaurants do it differently but these corporate chains most certainly have "Tips" listed on your W2 if they're given by credit card.
I've never worked in the industry but i've heard people who work at buff wildwings tell me something along those lines.
If no one in the restaurant ever reported tips BWW Would be in hot water so they make sure they divy the tips evenly amongst employees. all tips are pooled and split amongst workers in the shift / day.
Sno.I wish at the very least that any of his stupid ass tax cuts supplied me with so much as $1.00
No tax on tips! (Well I don’t make tips and no one was reporting their tips anyway)
No tax on overtime (well I work for the government where there has been a freeze on overtime for 10 years. Plus eliminating the FLSA will mean there’s no such thing as OT anyway)
No tax on social security! I don’t currently receive social security, and neither do my parents who paid into an alternative system.
And all his other “tax cuts” were more than offset by the SALT caps.
VTshredder69Restaurants do it differently but these corporate chains most certainly have "Tips" listed on your W2 if they're given by credit card.
I've never worked in the industry but i've heard people who work at buff wildwings tell me something along those lines.
If no one in the restaurant ever reported tips BWW Would be in hot water so they make sure they divy the tips evenly amongst employees. all tips are pooled and split amongst workers in the shift / day.
Tips are reported automatically if ran through the pos. Aka credit cards. When paid in cash, it was mandatory where I worked to report 10% of cash sales as tips regardless if you were tipped or not. Sometimes you would save sometimes you would lose.
Regardless, if you are trying to save your server taxes, best practice is to pay credit, and tip in cash. That way no tip is reported to the man
profa_212Tips are reported automatically if ran through the pos. Aka credit cards. When paid in cash, it was mandatory where I worked to report 10% of cash sales as tips regardless if you were tipped or not. Sometimes you would save sometimes you would lose.
Regardless, if you are trying to save your server taxes, best practice is to pay credit, and tip in cash. That way no tip is reported to the man
I had a feeling they were. Would only make sense you can track literally anything through CC's and the POS system i guess
I always try to tip in cash for respect of the restaurant employees. Cash is king always.
TOAST.This should never be a defense. Our politics are going to go further and further into the shitter if both sides keep justifying dumb shit because the other side did it in the past. Either believe something is acceptable for both sides or neither.
**This post was edited on Mar 5th 2025 at 10:54:43am
yeah its sad all of these like 50+ year old ppl are crying and chanting during a pretty large address to congress, things have changed a lot for the worse.
eheathyeah its sad all of these like 50+ year old ppl are crying and chanting during a pretty large address to congress, things have changed a lot for the worse.
TBF congress has broken into fistfights, canings, stabbings, murder and guns drawn multiple times throughout history So at least it isnt that i suppose
TOAST.No tax on overtime is cool, wish I got ot, but doesn't help people working multiple jobs,.
Tipping culture already sucks in the US and this will probably just make it worse.
I won't tip a fucking penny if that becomes tax free.
profa_212TBF congress has broken into fistfights, canings, stabbings, murder and guns drawn multiple times throughout history So at least it isnt that i suppose
i suppose theyre just reacting like someone in 2025 would react, but we're already dealing with childist, embarrassing administration, you'd think congress could take the high road since everyone in the world except for the GOP thinks the same thing.
One of the primary platform issues for the democrats and far-left progressives especially is the distribution of wealth in this County. They’re appalled that there are billionaires and that tax cuts or policies benefit the rich the most. I think the democrats severely overestimate the the republican bases give-a-shit meter on this. I think conservatives don’t care if tax cuts or policies benefit the richest individuals the most, so long as the policy appears either neutral or beneficial to their own bottom line. Conservatives appreciate that there is the ability to become rich in this Country. They dream of it.
Democrats just continue to focus on their talking points of “lining the pockets of the rich,” “giving tax cuts to him and his billionaire friends,” etc. as though this is going to create some sort of disgust on the right like like it does on the left. It’s not effective. Focus on how democratic policies will get them (the constituents) more money. Focus on how the republican tax cuts will get them less. But don’t just expect the right to hate a policy because it makes the rich richer. They’re just gonna be like “well sweet maybe that will be me some day.”
How do I know this is how some of them think? Because I’m a democrat and even I don’t think their speeches are effective for me. Im just like “I mean whatever. We all know we live in a capitalist society. I’ve worked my ass off for what I have and I have goals I have yet to meet as well. What I want to know is how is any given policy harming people who aren’t rich? That’s what I care about. I also want to know if it is benefiting those who aren’t rich. But I’m not going to just be opposed to a policy solely because it benefits the rich in some way. As long as the policy is a rising tide that lifts all boats, I’m all ears.
You’re just not going to get the conservative base to turn on Trump by trying to make them anti rich people. They think he deserves it. They hope to someday be invited to his table.
See now these diagrams and the numbers are effective. The democratic response last night should state, “if you make less than ___, your taxes will go up.” Not just “this policy takes from the poor and gives to the rich.” They’re just like “ok?” They envision removing food stamps from people who they don’t think should be getting them to begin with and giving it back to what the democrats call “rich” which the democrats have done themselves no favors in making everyone think that “rich” to them means over $70,000 a year.
je_t.aime_canard
the tax changes doesn't even benefit the vast majority of trump voters
je_t.aime_canardI just don’t understand how his supporters don’t feel betrayed when they see their tax increase come through.
also where’s my motm hat, I don’t believe it doesn’t exist, I just don’t believe that
Trump will push something else, like how the amount of arrests at the border is at an all time low.
Most of these poor, uneducated people don't know any better and will be swoon by something else he does that is far less significant. They just want specific things like less illegal immigration or budget cuts or whatever. People will get pissed but it won't be nearly enough to "turn on" trump, I think his base is stubborn enough they'll basically lick his toes before they change their mind about him.
True but they haven’t seen themselves being betrayed yet. They think he will come through. He will send them $5k doge checks while increasing either their taxes or the prices of things they need to buy by 6k and they wouldn’t notice they’d just be stoked on the check.
So they’re waiting to see how this term shakes out for them. Meanwhile they do feel betrayed by democrats, who say that they support the middle class and that they eliminate tax cuts from the wealthiest to provide them to the middle and lower classes… and then when their policies are actually rolled out they cap the income on every last benefit and stimulus check they offer at the top of the lower class, cutting the middle class out almost entirely (except for maybe the lower middle class)— people are like “wait I’m not getting a stimulus check because I make too much!? I’m poor!!!
The result is the middle class ends up taking it on both ends.
je_t.aime_canardI just don’t understand how his supporters don’t feel betrayed when they see their tax increase come through.
also where’s my motm hat, I don’t believe it doesn’t exist, I just don’t believe that
**This post was edited on Mar 5th 2025 at 12:35:28pm
I’ve worked for a lot of restaurants, albeit it’s been many years, but back in the day it was your responsibility to report your tips, and people always reported about 10-20% of their actual tips. You had all your receipts from the night and had to go back and balance your “till” and report total sales and tips.
Maybe some restaurants have cracked down on it, but that’s just how it always used to be
VTshredder69Restaurants do it differently but these corporate chains most certainly have "Tips" listed on your W2 if they're given by credit card.
I've never worked in the industry but i've heard people who work at buff wildwings tell me something along those lines.
If no one in the restaurant ever reported tips BWW Would be in hot water so they make sure they divy the tips evenly amongst employees. all tips are pooled and split amongst workers in the shift / day.
I guess I’m so freaking old that people mostly tipped in cash when I worked in restaurants.
but back then the servers would tip out the hosts and the bussers from their total tips from the night. So, obviously the server doesn’t get taxed on the busser and hosts tips? So the servers must have had to report what they kept vs allocated? Honestly I can’t even remember I just know I was a busser at a lot of restaurants and I never claimed any of my tips.
TOAST.This should never be a defense. Our politics are going to go further and further into the shitter if both sides keep justifying dumb shit because the other side did it in the past. Either believe something is acceptable for both sides or neither.
**This post was edited on Mar 5th 2025 at 10:54:43am
I frankly don't care if there's heckling so long as the same standards are held for removal and the public response is equivalent.
Obviously there are some lines that shouldn't be crossed w/r/t what's being said but I don't think any politician is so juvenile to stoop to that level.
**This post was edited on Mar 5th 2025 at 12:49:10pm
Sno.I guess I’m so freaking old that people mostly tipped in cash when I worked in restaurants.
but back then the servers would tip out the hosts and the bussers from their total tips from the night. So, obviously the server doesn’t get taxed on the busser and hosts tips? So the servers must have had to report what they kept vs allocated? Honestly I can’t even remember I just know I was a busser at a lot of restaurants and I never claimed any of my tips.
When I worked jobs with tips (delivery, valet) i never reported cash and thats what everyone else did too. It was pretty rare when i was in HS to get tipped on a CC so rarely did my tips get taxed. But i was 18 I didn't need to build income so it made sense. If you're in your 20s or 30s, if you want to get a loan you need to report all of your income so I would image most people in that age range are reporting tips still.
No tax on tips is an interesting idea, I feel like that motivates servers/bartenders to give away free shit so they get tipped more lol.
Ok yeah same. I bussed tables from like 16-21. Never worked in a tip job since.
However, I also remember that I made pretty good money for my age and so did the servers. I took home $60-$100 a night in tips for a dinner shift, and the servers took home over $200. At the time that was a good amount of money. No tax on tips will make service industry jobs a lot more profitable and more realistic to stay in as a career. But it sure doesn’t help any of the jobs that don’t make tips.
IS this tips and OT thing the only tax cut he’s offering to those who aren’t rich?
eheathWhen I worked jobs with tips (delivery, valet) i never reported cash and thats what everyone else did too. It was pretty rare when i was in HS to get tipped on a CC so rarely did my tips get taxed. But i was 18 I didn't need to build income so it made sense. If you're in your 20s or 30s, if you want to get a loan you need to report all of your income so I would image most people in that age range are reporting tips still.
No tax on tips is an interesting idea, I feel like that motivates servers/bartenders to give away free shit so they get tipped more lol.
je_t.aime_canardI just don’t understand how his supporters don’t feel betrayed when they see their tax increase come through.
also where’s my motm hat, I don’t believe it doesn’t exist, I just don’t believe that
They blame it on the other party.
Trump could have won back-to-back and I'm SURE the GOP would have blamed Obama for many things that were not even remotely close to his fault.
Think about the inflation. There was a perfect storm at the end of the Trump presidency into the Biden presidency that primed the system explode.
Who got blamed by the media? Biden.
Never mind the fact that Fox News is one of the most popular news shows out there and routinely pushes misinformation (remember that ~$800M defamation lawsuit they lost??) to the GOP base.
Sno.I’ve worked for a lot of restaurants, albeit it’s been many years, but back in the day it was your responsibility to report your tips, and people always reported about 10-20% of their actual tips. You had all your receipts from the night and had to go back and balance your “till” and report total sales and tips.
Maybe some restaurants have cracked down on it, but that’s just how it always used to be
That's why the gov wants everyone to be on CC's. They want to trace everything you buy & sell which is pretty fucked IMO. I use cash for anything I can. Even sports games in NYC don't accept cash. Shit's infuriating.
On a semi-related note it used to be that if you had a side hustle and got paid via PayPal, stripe or Venmo you only got a 1099 if you had over 200 transactions or made $20,000. This year they lowered it to $5000 and any number of transactions. They made this change in November (which quite frankly is a bunch of bullshit since you’re retroactively changing the rules on money already earned). Anyway over the next 2-3 years they’re going to lower the $5000 to $1.
This is especially lame, because if you receive your payments through PayPal via a third party company, those third party companies don’t differentiate “income” from “damages or reimbursements.” So you end up with a 1099 where you have to pay taxes on your damages and reimbursements as though they are income, else run the risk of your income not matching your 1099 and getting audited. And everyone knows you can’t get a corrected 1099 from PayPal in time for tax filing.
I made $5087 in a side hustle this last year. $767 was reimbursements. So if it had been properly reported I shouldn’t have gotten 1099’d at all because I’d have been under the $5000 threshold. Instead I had to report it all as income.
I do not have the time to try and hunt down a corrected 1099 and do an amended return so I just eat it.
Long story short: a lot of side hustles just became way less profitable.
sure you can write off reimbursements as deductions and not pay FIT on that amount but you still have to pay 50% of the SS and Medicare tax on it unless your net is below $400 and you pay for your own healthcare policy instead of it being through work on your primary job. And for tax credits that use your AGI it isn’t accurate.
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**This post was edited on Mar 5th 2025 at 1:08:56pm
Sno.On a semi-related note it used to be that if you had a side hustle and got paid via PayPal, stripe or Venmo you only got a 1099 if you had over 200 transactions or made $20,000. This year they lowered it to $5000 and any number of transactions. They made this change in November (which quite frankly is a bunch of bullshit since you’re retroactively changing the rules on money already earned). Anyway over the next 2-3 years they’re going to lower the $5000 to $1.
This is especially lame, because if you receive your payments through PayPal via a third party company, those third party companies don’t differentiate “income” from “damages or reimbursements.” So you end up with a 1099 where you have to pay taxes on your damages and reimbursements as though they are income, else run the risk of your income not matching your 1099 and getting audited. And everyone knows you can’t get a corrected 1099 from PayPal in time for tax filing.
I made $5087 in a side hustle this last year. $767 was reimbursements. So if it had been properly reported I shouldn’t have gotten 1099’d at all because I’d have been under the $5000 threshold. Instead I had to report it all as income.
I do not have the time to try and hunt down a corrected 1099 and do an amended return so I just eat it.
Long story short: a lot of side hustles just became way less profitable.
Yeah that was a Biden policy I hated.
I'd actually be pleased if GOP got their shit together and raised the cap to $15k / year.
$10k / year is less than $1k / month which really isn't a lot.
On the plus side I just got a text from my parents that they received their retroactive SS check from the Biden Social Security Fairness act. And I guess payments go up next month...as long as something doesn't happen to ruin that.
BiffbarfYeah dude, if those damn waitresses don't pay their fair share of the 40k in tips they get this year the economy will crumble
It has nothing to do with the economy but rather that people will be able to not pay taxes on their fucking income. In fact, taxing less causes a boost to the economy lmao so nice assumption about my rationale but HUGE swing and a miss. By all means though, let's just allow more people to not pay taxes on their income and expect the government debt to decline.
HypeBeastIt has nothing to do with the economy but rather that people will be able to not pay taxes on their fucking income. In fact, taxing less causes a boost to the economy lmao so nice assumption about my rationale but HUGE swing and a miss. By all means though, let's just allow more people to not pay taxes on their income and expect the government debt to decline.
I meant the government, they'll all implode when dorthy at waffle house doesn't pay her tip tax lol cmon man. Tipped earners are broke as fuck and you are trying to say they need to pay some sort of fair share to uncle sam? Lmao quick! Raytheon needs to build sidewinders! The $1.75 from pop-pop's grand slam combo MUST be accounted for!
eheathIf its someone first offense we'd just delete and warn, but that dude has been banned before for similar behavior and we do not condone that sort of bullshit on NS. Plenty of other ways to attempt to insult others, telling them to kill themselves is out of pocket.
People sending me hella weird right wing political memes. I usually just ignore but if I'm like yo wtf are you sending me, that's not even true it sparks and argument.
Like don't send all your friends stupid angry political shit and assume they're down. I get that I live in rural America and run machines but Jesus christ. Shit's so annoying. People woll be like "Hears a funny fail video and next im going to send you some unhinged right wing shit"
theabortionatorPeople sending me hella weird right wing political memes. I usually just ignore but if I'm like yo wtf are you sending me, that's not even true it sparks and argument.
Like don't send all your friends stupid angry political shit and assume they're down. I get that I live in rural America and run machines but Jesus christ. Shit's so annoying. People woll be like "Hears a funny fail video and next im going to send you some unhinged right wing shit"
BiffbarfI meant the government, they'll all implode when dorthy at waffle house doesn't pay her tip tax lol cmon man. Tipped earners are broke as fuck and you are trying to say they need to pay some sort of fair share to uncle sam? Lmao quick! Raytheon needs to build sidewinders! The $1.75 from pop-pop's grand slam combo MUST be accounted for!
