Trump's Second Term

[Segnosaur]

As even the Fox report notes, the bill to drop tip taxes had bipartisan support and passed the senate but the house did not bother with it since it was folded into Trump's big bill. Sharon is actually a Doordash deliverer, her husband does have cancer, and she has been a spokesperson for not taxing tips, though the meeting was set up, obviously. Interestingly, in the Fox video she asserts that she saved 3 to 4 thousand dollars owing to the bill, not the 11 thousand first stated. Considering that she also states she makes more than half her income from tips, one suspects that she's not making a fortune at her job. I sure hope her husband has Medicare.

I was wondering, has anyone ever sat down and figured out what her actual income is if she is saving $4k or $11k from eliminating tax on tips?

"Low income" tax brackets are around 10-12%. An individual saving $4000/year in that tax bracket would have been earning roughly $40000 per year, just on tips, at a minimum. Add in whatever regular wage she receives and she was probably earning at least the "average" income in the U.S. Of course, if she were at a higher tax bracket, that might account for her saving more money even if she didn't earn as much in tips, but it also means she was earning more overall.

(Note that that is a very rough estimate.).

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Most likely, alternately a hand picked MAGA who owns the place that produced the food.

Just like with tye Maccy D's he cosplayed as a worker in before the election?

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

She's an actual delivery driver, according to Doordash, but she has spoken out on behalf of Republican policy a couple of other times.

Why does ‘DoorDash Grandma’ keep showing up with MAGA members?

Sharon Simmons, dubbed MAGA Grandma, delivered to President Donald Trump at the White House. She previously appeared with other GOP leaders.

www.usatoday.com

In that case she probably the only "delivery driver" employed in house by the company.

 

[arthwollipot]

I can't think of anyone I know who supports taxing tips since most service workers have such low wages.

Imagine paying people a living wage so that you could tax them just like regular workers.

I know, crazy, right?

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

I was wondering, has anyone ever sat down and figured out what her actual income is if she is saving $4k or $11k from eliminating tax on tips?

"Low income" tax brackets are around 10-12%. An individual saving $4000/year in that tax bracket would have been earning roughly $40000 per year, just on tips, at a minimum. Add in whatever regular wage she receives and she was probably earning at least the "average" income in the U.S. Of course, if she were at a higher tax bracket, that might account for her saving more money even if she didn't earn as much in tips, but it also means she was earning more overall.

(Note that that is a very rough estimate.).

Let's she's tipped at 10% and she delivers $30 of goods (both averages) per trip. That equates to 13,000 deliveries per year (welll 13,333 but I'm rounding). That means 35 journeys per day, if she works every day in the year.

That'd be punishing for a twenty year old.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

She's taking a big risk, putting herself in the limelight, and she seems to be aware of it.

Shows how desperate she is for the added income that doing PR will bring, even if it comes with people hating her for seemingly propping up Trump and the tiny bone he threw to working Americans.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Let's she's tipped at 10% and she delivers $30 of goods (both averages) per trip. That equates to 13,000 deliveries per year (welll 13,333 but I'm rounding). That means 35 journeys per day, if she works every day in the year.

That'd be punishing for a twenty year old.

Actually thinking about this further, that level of deliveries is probably physically impossible. Even if she were tipped at $10 per journey that'd be four thousand deliveries a year, equating to over ten a day, jut about doable id you've a gallon bottle to pee in while driving.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
Will someone please tell Pope Leo that Iran has killed at least 42,000 innocent, completely unarmed, protesters in the last two months, and that for Iran to have a Nuclear Bomb is absolutely unacceptable. Thank you for your attention to this matter. AMERICA IS BACK!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP

 

[Andy_Ross]

Pete Hegseth
@PeteHegseth
HISTORIC RECRUITING NUMBERS CONTINUE…

Just learned the @usairforce & @USSpaceForce
met their FY26 recruiting goals 5 months early. Ahead of last year’s record pace.

Both @USArmy & @USMC soon to follow.

Young Americans surging to President Trump’s @DeptofWar
.

 

[Andy_Ross]

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Pete Hegseth
@PeteHegseth
HISTORIC RECRUITING NUMBERS CONTINUE…

Just learned the @usairforce & @USSpaceForce
met their FY26 recruiting goals 5 months early. Ahead of last year’s record pace.

Both @USArmy & @USMC soon to follow.

Young Americans surging to President Trump’s @DeptofWar
.

usually a sign of lack of employment opportunites.

What is also way up is the number of soldiers looking for ways to get out out of service early.

 

[Andy_Ross]

 

[Andy_Ross]

Stephen Miller on Eric Swalwell: "The REAL story here is how the Democrat Party controls its members through BLACKMAIL!"

"It's got a blackmail file on ALL of its politicians, and it uses them to leverage and control them until it's time to release it!"

"That is how SICK and TWISTED the Democrat Party is. That's the next thread we've got to pull out here."

Link

 

[Andy_Ross]

JD Vance sharply responds to Pope Leo XIV:

“When the Pope says God is never on the side of those who wield the sword, there is more than a thousand-year tradition of Just War Theory in Christianity.”

“Just as I have to be careful when speaking about public policy as Vice President, the Pope should be very careful when speaking about theology.”

“If you’re going to opine on matters of theology, it must be anchored in truth. That’s what I strive for, and it’s exactly what we should expect from the clergy, Catholic or Protestant.”

 

[P.J. Denyer]

JD Vance sharply responds to Pope Leo XIV:

“When the Pope says God is never on the side of those who wield the sword, there is more than a thousand-year tradition of Just War Theory in Christianity.”

“Just as I have to be careful when speaking about public policy as Vice President, the Pope should be very careful when speaking about theology.”

“If you’re going to opine on matters of theology, it must be anchored in truth. That’s what I strive for, and it’s exactly what we should expect from the clergy, Catholic or Protestant.”

Pope Leo should make an ex Cathedra pronouncement that Vance is a sofa ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ twat.

 

[Aridas]

I can't think of anyone I know who supports taxing tips since most service workers have such low wages.

It's probably worth repeating a note about the No Tax on Tips things again.

The Republican version sold itself as being to help low income people. Its actual primary effects were to help the rich by going after things other than what are normally counted as the tips in question. The usual Republican perversion of the issue in question, in short.

The Democratic version actually focused on the tips in question and would have benefited those with low income.

Stephen Miller on Eric Swalwell: "The REAL story here is how the Democrat Party controls its members through BLACKMAIL!"

"It's got a blackmail file on ALL of its politicians, and it uses them to leverage and control them until it's time to release it!"

"That is how SICK and TWISTED the Democrat Party is. That's the next thread we've got to pull out here."

Link

An admission that that's what the Republican Party's doing, eh?

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Not a cult

Simonetti: For all the Democrats that say when you fill up the gas tank you are seeing Trump's picture, the whole world will see a picture of Trump on their gas stations in the near future because he is rerouting the oil flow and it’s coming back to the U.S.

Link

Moron. The US oil companies are selling their oil to other countries because Trump has wrecked the world's supply and that is why Americans, like everyone else, are suddenly paying so much more for fuel. Over here, thousands of miles away, I don't need a sticker on the fuel pump to remind me to say a sarcastic "Thanks, Trump" every time I pay an extra £12 to fill up.

 

[Andy_Ross]

 

[Andy_Ross]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I am working very hard with our Great Speaker, Mike Johnson, along with Chairman Jim Jordan and Chairman Rick Crawford, to get a clean extension of FISA 702 through the House of Representatives this week. I am asking Republicans to UNIFY, and vote together on the test vote to bring a clean Bill to the floor. We need to stick together when this Bill comes before the House Rules Committee today to keep it CLEAN!

I was a victim of the worst and most illegal abuse of FISA in our Nation's History, by Radical Left Lunatics, who lied to the FISA Court to spy on my 2016 Presidential Campaign in their attempt to RIG the Election in favor of Crooked Hillary Clinton.
Their use of this instrument in the 2020 Presidential Election was even worse! When the Dirty Cop, James Comey, the failed Head of the FBI, went after me, he was using FISA Title I, the Domestic Collection, not FISA 702, the Foreign Collection, which needs to be extended today.
While parts of FISA were illegally and unfortunately used against me in the Democrats' disgraceful Witch Hunt and Attack in the RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA Hoax, and perhaps would be used against me in the future, I am willing to risk that as a Citizen in order to do what is right for our Country.
Our Military desperately needs FISA 702, and it is one of the reasons we have had such tremendous SUCCESS on the battlefield, both in Venezuela and Iran. Since the first day of my already Historic Second Term, my Administration has worked tirelessly to ensure these FISA Reforms are being aggressively executed at every level of the Executive Branch to keep Americans safe, while protecting our sacred Civil Liberties guaranteed by our Great Constitution.
With the ongoing successful Military activities against the Terrorist Iranian Regime, it is more important than ever that we remain vigilant, PROTECT our Homeland, Troops, and Diplomats stationed abroad, and maintain our ability to quickly stop bad actors seeking to cause harm to our People and our Country.
The fact is, whether you like FISA or not, it is extremely important to our Military. I have spoken to many Generals about this, and they consider it VITAL.
Not one said, even tacitly, that they can do without it - especially right now with our brilliant Military Operation in Iran.
Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

 

[Jack by the hedge]

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I assume the criticism of taking children from their parents and throwing them into cages is what the poster thinks is "calling for open borders". Struggling to see anything "Not Good" there. He may have taken a vow of celibacy but he recognises a ◊◊◊◊ when he sees one.