Do you actually think that Republicans would support any effort lead by Democrats during either the Biden or Obama administrations to reduce or eliminate taxes on tips or OT? Other than Murkowski, McCain, or Collins I don’t think any other GOP would have supported an effort to accomplish these very same things if they were being lead by Democrats instead of Republicans/Trump.
They managed a couple impeachments & a giant, very expensive Green New Deal disguised as an anti inflation bill. The Democrats could have removed the OT & tips tax from the working poor & middle class if the wanted to. Why not? Same RINO’s who voted for impeachments & disguised Green New Deal would have voted however Pelosi told them.
Sand Pebble slept through history class when they went over Lend Lease.
He also must’ve missed the 1942 revenue act where they drastically increased taxes on everyone to pay for the war.
Seems like he slept through the entire unit on WW2.
Well they did manage to get everyone covered with health insurance. I think that’s a much bigger deal than a tax cut on just part of some people’s earnings.
Again though, if Democrats proposed this hypothetical tax cut on tips/OT (which isn’t even in place yet) do you think a significant portion of Republicans would support it? I suspect if the Republicans put forward a bill that just cut taxes on tips/OT without any additional riders or additional tax cuts for the wealthy, many perhaps even most Democrats would likely support it even if Republicans were the initial sponsors.
FDR did his “damnest” to avoid war with USSR? I’m not even sure what you mean here. USSR was our ALLY then, and it was USSR with a lot of USA equipment that was primarily responsible for defeating the Nazi’s.
FDR actually tried to give as much support as possible to both USSR and UK prior to US full in involvement in WWII.
President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease bill into law on March 11, 1941. It permitted him to “sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government any defense article.” In April, this policy was extended to China and in October to the Soviet Union (USSR), which was attacked by Germany on 22 June 1941. Roosevelt approved $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to Britain at the end of October 1941.
All of this was BEFORE the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Remember when this thread was about tax on tips/OT and not FDR/Reagan/JFK/USSR?
How quickly every topic here devolves into red vs blue.
Would our work/rest log help ? Mine reflects 12 hour days.
- I don’t even know if this proposal will make it to the final version of the bill but either way the Big Bullshit Bill will do the exact opposite of the stated purpose which is lowering the deficit.
- By the time the shipping company lobbyists get finished writing their part of the OT bill it is doubtful most US mariners will benefit. Mariners in the US are already special. Example: An entry level OS gets to work 12 hours a day 7 days a week without the need for any overtime being calculated as they are paid a “day rate” same as the highest level Master or Chief. Makes one wonder why every employer doesn’t just pay their employees a ‘day rate’?
- MAYBE the union lobbyists will find a way to keep this benefit for union members should it ever pass but I have doubts either way.
Ukraine is one of if not the most corrupt governments in Europe. Kind of bad to be giving this nation billions of taxpayer dollars. 182.5 billion since 2022. Seems like their Messiah was right again.
Please explain why the shipping companies would be against no tax on OT. I get that it will upset certain wage gaps between those who are above/below the 160K but why would they divert resources to fight this?
I propose it would have the opposite effect. This will compound the shortage of mariner problems regarding hiring and retaining. I would suspect an exodus towards companies that have a more amenable pay structure for the benefit. Attrition would force them to structure their pay to capitalize on the tax benefits.
Contracts? At least for Union members…
Pleas give one example in the history of the Democratic Party where they proposed lowering taxes. Just one…
Because democrats never have riders. Hypocrisy at its finest…
What gets me is when they passed a law that financially penalized poor people for being too poor to buy insurance from them on their Marketplace Insurance shake down website. Very glad fixing that injustice was one of Trumps priorities during his first term.
As for no O.T tax for mariners, I don’t think it will benefit many mariners which is fine with me. IMO, if a person is making over $160k a year, hopefully they’re managing that money in such a manner where a tax break isn’t as needed as much. The mariners who do qualify are likely just starting out or have low paying unlicensed positions. Good for them if this works out & if they qualify. The Democrats don’t have the numbers in the Senate to screw the working poor & middle class out of these tax breaks. I hope the Senate votes the same as the House with every Democrat voting “no”. Let the struggling middle class & those in the food service industry know how the Dems really feel about them.
If Obamacare is so unjust and unpopular why didn’t the Republicans overturn it in CJ’s first term?
Republicans held the presidency, dominated Congress, and had the Supreme Court in the bag.
Could have drowned Obamacare in the bathtub.
They didn’t. Because the program they swore was unpopular and useless proved to be highly popular and useful.
A day rate only works for salaried employees that have promotion prospects. Ratings need an incentive.
The 1986 tax cut that took the top rate of the income tax down to the modern low of 28 percent was a Democratic baby, championed by Sens. Bill Bradley and Reps. Rostenkowski and Dick Gephardt. It won the House by a voice vote—meaning virtually unanimous support—as 44 of 47 Democrats in the Senate voted yea. Supporters included liberal lions Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and Joe Biden.
In 1997, Bill Clinton cut the capital gains rate and in 2010, Barack Obama extended the George W. Bush rate cuts. The record of Democratic Congresses and administrations supporting tax-rate cuts is clear and repetitive, the only sustained exception being President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who in the 1930s built on Herbert Hoover’s massive income tax increases in the face of the Depression—though FDR reduced the tariff. Hoover had ballooned both the income tax and the tariff, which was too much for his Democratic successor to bear.
Now name one time in the last 75 years a Republican Administration has not increased the debt. Just one…
No tax on overtime increasing mariner take home pay would also be a huge subsidy to maritime employers.
In the 1952 Democratic Party Platform, it was noted that the party was in favor of reducing taxes. Personally, I remember Democrats in the 70s were advocating for reducing taxes.
Copium abounds!
I was referring to the ACA’s individual mandate & annual fine for the lower middle class & working poor who are too poor to buy insurance from the billionaire insurance companies that wrote the ACA, but I think you knew that already.
The Trump administration/Texas did try to repeal the whole unpopular ACA, won in Texas & other lower federal courts but lost in the Supreme Court in '21. If he was a dictator or Hitler reincarnated as the left pretends he’d just make a decree or e.o but thank goodness thats not the case.
Putting aside for the moment your mischaracterization of the people effected by the penalties in the ACA, let me see if I have this right:
The ACA is “bad” because of this one provision that you find fault with, and the Bigass Bucket of Bullshit is “good” and should be enthusiasticly supported by Democrats just because it has one provision, among hundreds presumably, that you approve of? Do I have that right?