“It is easier to con a man than to convince him he has been conned.” - Mark Twain

Trump has been pushing ads that state he will not tax workers tips. One way to not tax workers tips is to let employers keep their workers tips. It was a Democrat who stopped him before.

Trump also has been pushing ads to cut taxes on Social Security, and so, wants to implement an extreme House Republican plan that would cut Medicare and Social Security while slashing taxes for big corporations and the wealthy.

Trump is a proven pathological liar and con man.

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THE OMNIBUS BILL BLOCKS A TRUMP RULE THAT WOULD ALLOW BOSSES TO KEEP WORKERS' TIPS

House Republicans passed a spending bill Thursday that includes an important amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act. It bars employers from keeping tips earned by workers.

The text, written by Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), was added to the bill to block a proposed Trump administration rule that would have allowed employers to pocket the tips of millions of workers — a move that could cost service workers $5.8 billion a year in lost tips.

Full Article:
[vox.com]

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TRUMP'S VIEWS ON SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE —AND WHY EXPERTS SAY FUNDS COULD RUN OUT QUICKER IF HE'S ELECTED

Topline:

Democrats are expected to attack former President Donald Trump’s views on Social Security and Medicare next week at the Democratic National Convention, even as the ex-president has publicly vowed not to cut the entitlement programs—though the plans he has announced for Social Security are likely to deplete the programs’ funds sooner than expected.

Key Facts:

Trump and the Republican Party have publicly committed not to cut Social Security or Medicare if Trump wins the White House, with the GOP’s platform stating the party will “fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age.”

Democrats have seized on comments Trump made in March, however, when the ex-president suggested he was open to cutting Social Security and Medicare, telling CNBC, “There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements.”

Trump’s campaign argued the ex-president did not mean to insinuate he wanted to cut entitlement programs, with spokesperson Karoline Leavitt telling CNN he was “clearly talking about cutting waste, not entitlements” and saying Trump “will continue to strongly protect Social Security and Medicare in his second term.”

Trump has proposed eliminating the tax on Social Security benefits that many seniors pay, as under current tax rules, Social Security recipients are taxed on a certain percentage of their benefits, which varies based on income.

Tax experts have broadly criticized 
Trump’s proposal, however, with the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget projecting that exempting taxes on benefits would result in Social Security and Medicare receiving $1.6 trillion less in revenue between 2026 and 2035 than if the current rules stayed in place.

If that lost tax revenue isn’t made up through other funding sources, that means those programs will run out of money and become insolvent sooner: Social Security’s Old Age and Survivors’ Insurance fund would become insolvent in 2032, according to the CRFB—one year sooner than projected under the current rules—while Medicare would become insolvent in 2030, which is six years sooner than currently projected.

Full Article:
[forbes.com]

Also:
[whitehouse.gov]