On Saturday, Kamala Harris copied Donald Trump’s proposal to eliminate taxes on tips. Harris said she would “eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.” “Kamala just announced she is stealing President Trump’s ‘NO TAX ON TIPS’ proposal. But like everything else she says, it’s a pure political calculation she’ll never actually do — but President Trump WILL,” Trump War Room wrote. WATCH: Kamala just announced she is stealing President Trump's "NO TAX ON TIPS" proposal. But like everything else she says, it's a pure political calculation she'll never actually do — but President Trump WILL. pic.twitter.com/8MiJ8eFreu — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 11, 2024 “Kamala Harris, whose ‘Honeymoon’ period is ENDING, and is starting to get hammered in the Polls, just copied my NO TAXES ON TIPS Policy. The difference is, she won’t do it, she just wants it for Political Purposes! This was a TRUMP idea – She has no ideas, she can only steal from me,” Trump responded. “Remember, Kamala has proposed the LARGEST TAX INCREASE IN HISTORY – It won’t happen. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” he added. However, history already shows us where Harris stands on taxing tips. “On August 7, 2022, Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act that provided $80 billion in additional funding to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which then got to work cracking down on the service industry’s reporting of tips so that they could be taxed,” Breitbart reports. “I was proud to cast the tie-breaking vote to pass our Inflation Reduction Act, which has capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors. Now, Congress must pass a bill that extends the cap to all Americans,” Harris wrote in March 2024. I was proud to cast the tie-breaking vote to pass our Inflation Reduction Act, which has capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors. Now, Congress must pass a bill that extends the cap to all Americans. — Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) March 8, 2024 Breitbart reports: President Joe Biden’s White House also boasted that the Inflation Reduction Act “provided $80 billion in additional funding to the IRS.” In February 2023, the IRS released a proposed revenue procedure known as the Service Industry Tip Compliance Agreement (SITCA) program. The agency described SITCA as “a voluntary tip reporting program between the IRS and employers in various service industries” that would include “monitoring of employer compliance based on actual annual tip revenue and charge tip data from an employer’s point-of-sale system, and allowance for adjustments in tipping practices from year to year.” “There’s no reason they’d be issuing guidance on how to crack down on this if it was only going to end up being voluntary,” Americans for Tax Reform’s Mike Palicz told Fox News at the time. “Ultimately, the goal is to go and grab as much revenue as possible and from whoever they can.” “They told us they’re not going to be coming after people earning $400,000 or less,” Palicz added. “Well, here’s a new IRS rule that’s focused on bringing in tips from waitresses.” Palicz also took to X to express his dismay, writing, “Those 87,000 new IRS agents that you were promised would only target the rich… They’re coming after waitresses’ tips now.” Those 87,000 new IRS agents that you were promised would only target the rich… They're coming after waitresses' tips now: "monitoring of employer compliance based on actual annual tip revenue and charge tip data from an employer's point-of-sale system."https://t.co/WAvh0t2cNN — Mike Palicz (@Mike_Palicz) February 7, 2023 “The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service today issued Notice 2023-13, which contains a proposed revenue procedure that would establish the Service Industry Tip Compliance Agreement (SITCA) program, a voluntary tip reporting program between the IRS and employers in various service industries. The IRS is issuing this guidance in proposed form to provide an opportunity for public comment,” the IRS announced in February 2023. “The proposed SITCA program is designed to take advantage of advancements in point-of-sale, time and attendance systems, and electronic payment settlement methods to improve tip reporting compliance. The proposed program would also decrease taxpayer and IRS administrative burdens and provide more transparency and certainty to taxpayers,” the agency added. President Trump also called out Harris for the agency’s “new service industry tip reporting program.” “This is the real Kamala!” Trump said on Truth Social. “President Trump just CALLED OUT Kamala Harris for actually using the IRS to HARASS tipped workers, and ‘crack down’ on them,” journalist Nick Sortor commented. President Trump just CALLED OUT Kamala Harris for actually using the IRS to HARASS tipped workers, and “crack down” on them Now she’s saying she wants to end taxes on tips? Bullsht. DON’T BUY INTO THE FRAUD! Only TRUMP will end taxes on tips! pic.twitter.com/jaXOgJtDhm — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 11, 2024 * Images from Nick Sortor X Post *

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The New York Times published an article covering up for Tim Walz, claiming he “misspoke” about his military record. “The Democratic vice-presidential nominee has come under attack from Republicans, who have suggested that he overstated his military record and avoided combat.” This is according to the Times. It doesn’t sound biased at all. It’s not […] The post NYT: Walz Only Misspoke About His Military Record & GOP Is Bad appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Former President Donald Trump returned to X on Monday with multiple posts, including one where he directly appealed to voters. Trump’s first post on Monday morning was a campaign video that showed moments from his 2016 race and his first term in office. Less than an hour later, he posted again, writing, “Are you better off now than you were when I was president? Our economy is shattered. Our border has been erased. We’re a nation in decline. Make the American Dream AFFORDABLE again. Make America SAFE again. Make America GREAT Again!” Four minutes later, the Republican presidential nominee posted a reminder of his interview with X owner Elon Musk, which will be live-streamed on the social media site at 8:00 p.m. Monday. ENJOY! pic.twitter.com/un0WwfJlpw — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2024 Ten minutes after that post, Trump posted a link to his campaign website above another campaign video that included remarks from one of his speeches. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI “This is the final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state, we will expel the warmongers from our government, we will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists,” Trump says in the video. “We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will route the fake news media, and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all.” https://t.co/MlIKklPSJT pic.twitter.com/sVyrCxHqdt — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2024 Trump also posted a video highlighting Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’ radical policies and record on immigration as vice president. MEET SAN FRANCISCO RADICAL KAMALA HARRIS! https://t.co/MlIKklPSJT pic.twitter.com/lv4nGjNzae — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2024 Trump’s Monday X posts are an apparent shift in the former president’s social media strategy. Before Monday, Trump’s last post on X came on August 24, 2023, when he shared a picture of his mug shot. Trump was locked out of Twitter as the sitting president following the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. He then launched his own social media platform, Truth Social, where he has been posting almost daily ever since. Trump’s interview with Musk is set to take place less than a month after the X owner “fully” endorsed Trump. Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) have gone on a recent media blitz, with Trump holding an hour-long press conference last Thursday, and Vance appearing on the Sunday shows.

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