Vice-President Kamala Harris
Probably requires her own thread at this moment, lock/delete etc if someone else wins the nom
That may have been true years ago but most folks pay with a credit or debit card and the tip is added to the bill.
Rick if they can declare it and not pay taxes on them they can get mortgages.
Ever thought about that?
And btw when the tip is paid by credit card (and a growing number of them are) it isn't so easy to avoid taxes on that, is it?
And there will be a Real Estate Boom!
So I did look it up online and if a Credit Card is used to pay for a tip the employer is required to file a tip form to the IRS (Sort of like when a poker player wins more than $5,000 net at a tournament). So I couldn't be more wrong about the cheating thing... At least for wait staff in restaurants.
I typically put dollar bills in tip jars rather than add the tip to the credit card bill when I get fast food. But when eating in a restaurant I always put the tip on the credit card bill.
However in casinos I always put my cash tips in the tournament box so at least the dealers have a choice.
And there will be a Real Estate Boom!
So I did look it up online and if a Credit Card is used to pay for a tip the employer is required to file a tip form to the IRS (Sort of like when a poker player wins more than $5,000 net at a tournament). So I couldn't be more wrong about the cheating thing... At least for wait staff in restaurants.
I typically put dollar bills in tip jars rather than add the tip to the credit card bill when I get fast
Yep glad you understand the totalitarian state is controlling almost everything these days so the old school ways of living life decently are closed off for young people.
So are you on board with not taxing tips now? It's a broad tent and it can be done, and any tax reduction/exemption is a true moral good (the state is the enemy, not the solution) so you can get good karma backing it.
Yep glad you understand the totalitarian state is controlling almost everything these days so the old school ways of living life decently are closed off for young people.
So are you on board with not taxing tips now? It's a broad tent and it can be done, and any tax reduction/exemption is a true moral good (the state is the enemy, not the solution) so you can get good karma backing it.
I actually am in favor of it because of the way the minimum wage laws work where wait staff can be paid below the minimum wage and sometimes earn less than the minimum wage including tips.
I am typically in favor of raising taxes on the rich (so the deficit can be reduced and we can spend money on things like Obamacare, food stamps, free child care, pre K in all public schools, etc.) and lowering them for working class people.
So I would be in favor of this.
I think the Harris momentum will quickly die out. She has to be the most unlikable candidate of all time. Under her watch 10 million illegals have entered our country. We are under attack. She has allowed ISIS too sneak into the country.
I think the Harris momentum will quickly die out. She has to be the most unlikable candidate of all time. Under her watch 10 million illegals have entered our country. We are under attack. She has allowed ISIS too sneak into the country.
This is why they are hiding her. She's going to need to come off script at some point and people will get to see actual her.
Maybe she'll be good. I don't know. We haven't really had a chance to see her yet.
I'm sure when she comes off script with big bad leaders like Putin and the North Korean guy it will just go perfectly. 👍
Friendly reminder to the last 3 posters about Trump's performance in Helsinki, 2018. Probably the the weakest display of foreign diplomacy and foreign policy by a US president in modern history and certainly the most pathetic display of such ever done on stage.
That is not even taking into account the "I meant wouldn't when I said would" excuses that was stammered by him and his administration in the following days, which moved the entire thing from pathetic to absolute cringefest.
I find the take from the above posts weird, something that stems more from nodding heads on Twitter talking to each-other than anything actual. If it is one thing that seems clear both from Harris' record and appearances, it is that she is pretty much tough as nails. If that is what you want from a president, with her you'd likely get the toughest president the US has had in a long, long time.
This is why they are hiding her. She's going to need to come off script at some point and people will get to see actual her.
Maybe she'll be good. I don't know. We haven't really had a chance to see her yet.
She wouldn’t even do an interview for the puff piece for Time. As well she is scared to answer questions with CNN and MSNBC .
Wow a world leader that is scared to answer questions.
I think the Harris momentum will quickly die out. She has to be the most unlikable candidate of all time. Under her watch 10 million illegals have entered our country. We are under attack. She has allowed ISIS too sneak into the country.
The border is not under Kamala's watch. It is under Biden's watch. She has not allowed ISIS to sneak into the country.
About ISIS sneaking into the country her...
"The official added that the U.S. has no indication that the more than 400 migrants brought to the U.S. by the network have plans to carry out terrorism in the U.S., but immigration agents are looking to arrest them out of an abundance of caution.
“In this case, it was the information that suggested a potential tie to ISIS because of some of the individuals involved in [smuggling migrants to the border] that led us to want to take extra care,” said a senior Biden administration official, “and out of an abundance of caution make sure that we exercised our authority in the most expansive and appropriate way to mitigate risk because of this potential connection being made.”
The official added that since ICE began arresting migrants brought to the U.S. by the ISIS-linked smuggling group several months ago, no information has emerged tying them to a threat to the U.S. homeland. "
This is why they are hiding her. She's going to need to come off script at some point and people will get to see actual her.
Maybe she'll be good. I don't know. We haven't really had a chance to see her yet.
I doubt they are hiding her. My guess is that it will take some time (probably up until the DNC) for her to create her agenda and policies that she would pursue as President. She failed pretty miserably at this in her run for President (as Biden had done twice before 2020) and will need to come up with a centrist plan on many issues like immigration.
I'm sure when she comes off script with big bad leaders like Putin and the North Korean guy it will just go perfectly. 👍
I'm guessing Kamala will have an interpreter in her meetings with Putin. So she will be wanting us to hear what happened and how Putin is treating her. Unlike Trump.
Kamala was a Prosecuting Attorney as Attorney General. There is no way Putin will tear her to pieces.
She wouldn’t even do an interview for the puff piece for Time. As well she is scared to answer questions with CNN and MSNBC .
Wow a world leader that is scared to answer questions.
First of all she isn't a world leader yet. By the time she is a world leader (hopefully) she will have done many interviews. Before she has those interviews she has to look at where she will stand on all issues because you never know what the questions will be.
She is unprepared because until 7/21 there was no way to know that Biden was going to step down and no way to know that she would end up being the replacement candidate. Given how badly she did in 2020 in her attempted run for president it seemed unlikely that she would necessarily be the candidate if Biden stepped down. I had heard that Obama had wanted Mark Kelley to be the candidate. I'm guessing there were many people who wanted Newsome or Whitmer (I was one of those). Especially because Kamala's approval rating had always been about 10% to 15% lower than Bidens (which has been hovering at 37% to 39% for a while).
You can act like she isn't doing interviews now and then when she does my guess is you will pretend that you never said these things or you will never refer to these posts which to you are probably meaningless anyway. Its just a way to get your digs in and to mock her.
Meanwhile every time Trump does an interview he lies repeatedly. About just about everything. Crowd sizes. That he is the author of bills and ideas (most recently that the no taxes for tips policy was his idea). Immigrants and how they are rapists and criminals. That Harris was in charge of the border. I would think that the honesty of a candidate would be important because what they will do as President will make a lot of difference to the world. And most importantly that the election was stolen in 2020. Do we really want a sore lozer to be President?
This is why they are hiding her. She's going to need to come off script at some point and people will get to see actual her.
Maybe she'll be good. I don't know. We haven't really had a chance to see her yet.
Why would dems deviate from the same plan that got biden elected? Minimize public appearances, when your candidate has to speak have them read a teleprompter of a speech they didn't write and make personal attacks on trump.
What do you think she is going to go out in public and admit she bailed out rioters, her VP candidate waited as long as he could to stop the rioters that burnt down parts of his city, that she was in charge of the border during record numbers of illegal immigration and that her party fought very hard for inflation (by keeping schools and businesses closed as long as possible and fought to maximize gov't handouts during covid)?
Harris is the border czar and is 100% responsible for the nightmare at the border.
There are many articles that show Kamala...
“Kamala had one job,” Nikki Haley told the crowd at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last week. “One job. And that was to fix the border. Now imagine her in charge of the entire country.”
"In fact, Harris was never put in charge of the border or immigration policy. Nor was she involved in overseeing law-enforcement efforts or guiding the federal response to the crisis. Her mandate was much narrower: to focus on examining and improving the underlying conditions in the Northern Triangle of Central America—El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—which has been racked by decades of poverty, war, chronic violence, and political instability. The strategy relied on allocating billions for economic programs and stimulating private-sector investment in the region in hopes that these programs would ultimately lead fewer migrants to make the dangerous journey north.
It was the first high-profile assignment in Harris' tenure as Vice President, and it was an especially thankless one. At best, addressing the “push factors” that spur migration would lead to incremental improvements and take a generation to yield results. At worst, it would make Harris the face of the border crisis, one of the Biden administration's biggest political vulnerabilities. "To the extent that this was a useful assignment, she did reasonably well in getting the private sector to invest in Central America," says Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. "But it was an assignment that could not produce results anytime soon."
Could this be another Mandella Effect?
Nope, not only do we remember when she was put in charge of the boarder, but it's still documented very clearly.
https://apnews.com/general-news-3400f562...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the White House effort to tackle the migration challenge at the U.S. southern border and work with Central American nations to address root causes of the problem.
Biden made the announcement as he and Harris met at the White House on Wednesday with Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandra Mayorkas and other immigration advisers to discuss the increase in migrants, including many unaccompanied minors, arriving at the border in recent weeks.
In delegating the matter to Harris, Biden is seeking to replicate a dynamic that played out when he served as President Barack Obama’s vice president. Obama turned to Biden in his first term to lead the White House effort to draw down U.S. troops in Iraq and oversee implementation of stimulus in response to the Great Recession.
“When she speaks, she speaks for me,” Biden said, noting her past work as California’s attorney general makes her specially equipped to lead the administration’s response.
Biden, who has faced stiff criticism from Republicans over the increased flow of migrants, is hoping to show Americans he’s taking the situation at the border seriously. He also wants to prevent the growing humanitarian and political challenge from overshadowing his administration’s ambitious legislative agenda.
But the high-profile assignment for Harris, who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 and is expected to run for the White House again in the future, could be politically fraught.
“Needless to say, the work will not be easy,” Harris said. “But it is important work.”
And it was very ingenious of her the way she tacked this issue. She stood there very sternly, and said "Don't come. Just don't come".
Could this be another Mandella Effect?
Nope, not only do we remember when she was put in charge of the boarder, but it's still documented very clearly.
https://apnews.com/general-news-3400f562...
And it was very ingenious of her the way she tacked this issue. She stood there very sternly, and said "Don't come. Just don't come".
Why did you cut off the next paragraph?
Harris is tasked with overseeing diplomatic efforts to deal with issues spurring migration in the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, as well as pressing them to strengthen enforcement on their own borders, administration officials said. She’s also tasked with developing and implementing a long-term strategy that gets at the root causes of migration from those countries.
I was only posting a snippet, which is why I included the link for people who are interested in reading the entire article.
BTW, if that administration REALLY didn't want them to come here from those countries, they wouldn't of used actual military aircraft to fly them into the U.S. right over the boarder by the hundreds of thousands, so while she's saying "just don't come", they're literally picking up over 400K illegal aliens by airplane and flying them over for free in the middle of the night.
Only real policy in which sense? He proposes to strongly deregulate fossil extraction, to deport all illegals, and many other things.
I’m sorry, but if you go on his official website you don’t see “he proposes to strongly deregulate fossil fuel extraction” anywhere. He doesn’t mention anything about deregulating fossil fuels. You are filling in the blanks for him on his very sparse policy proposals.
https://rncplatform.donaldjtrump.com/?_g...
I’m including the link so that you can see I’m getting that from the horse’s mouth, not mainstream media. He talks about increasing oil production but not HOW! Is it executive action? Deregulation? Legislation? If it’s any of those, can you cite these policy proposals? I think if a politician makes a promise, they should show how they plan on doing that instead of me believing them like some dictator (or conman).
>to deport all illegals
This is one of the few policies he actually goes into on. The problem is that he really doesn’t care about this. We had a bill on the table that would have solved many of our problems, but Trump blocked that bill! He wanted to campaign on the problems on the southern border, some of which he contributed to. Title 42 deportations replaced title 8, which made it harder to deport people and give them consequences. Also, he instituted many inhumane policies that had to be overturned, despite inheriting a relatively secure border from Obama who was strongly discouraging people from trying to come over. On top of that, he used his bully pulpit to tell people to come over which I think has been massively damaging to our country. Never before has a former president rooted for America’s downfall so strongly as Trump.
Honestly the fact that you guys went along with sabotaging a border deal should be disqualifying for Republicans.
Despite this, Biden and the Harris admin have been able to bring down border crossings and impose penalties without the Republicans help and without resorting to violating international law like Trump did. If only we could have been able to bring more resources to the immigration courts like what was proposed by a Republican lawmaker.
Furthermore, one of the funny things is that we don’t see any actual policy analysis. No stats on migrants coming in or comparison to that with historical numbers. Just some random rantings about how much better it was under Biden. The problem is that Trump ruined our well functioning immigration system in order to have a political W by looking tough. Meanwhile he lies about the murder rate among illegals and doesn’t do anything to combat narco-terrorism at large so that people don’t feel the need to migrate here.
But here’s the most important part: he doesn’t really talk about deporting illegals. Instead he talks about border policy. He doesn’t actually have a plan to deport illegals, or any numbers to back up his claim about it being the largest effort in American history.
Why do you guys need to lie explicitly all the times? I don't get it. Why lie about things that can be objectively easily countered, is that a form of theater you like to perform?
I dare you to compare this RNC platform with the 2012 platform and tell me which one goes into detail on policy. All he says is “I’ll prevent WW3” and “I’ll do the most massive deportation in American history” and “I’ll end inflation”! Where are the actual policy discussions that we should know as the people voting for him? It’s just platitudes and promises with no plan.
Like when Harris uses AI generated pics, easy to debunk, to lie about crowd sizes at her rallies?
lmao oh I forgot every accusation is a confession. When you talk about using lies as theater, you are talking about yourself.
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lmao oh I forgot every accusation is a confession. When you talk about using lies as theater, you are talking about yourself.
It's just a MAGA talking point, so it is pretty much immune to reason and argument. Since this one is from Trump himself, it is also gospel and not about reality, it is about how often it can be repeated and how many people you can tell it too.
Credit where credit is due, it is an effective political tactic. It hijacks discussion, shapes the news and renders debate rather pointless.
Which is actually rather damning. It tells us how stupid Trumpism is. There is no substance, no real problems and no solutions. And since Trumpism is devoid of these things, it doesn't require Trump or anyone around him to be competent either.
It is a strange political ideology.
