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No Taxes on Tips or Anything Else

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2024
Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions.
– Thomas Babington Macaulay, Letter to Henry Stephens Randall [1857]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
August 20, 2024
No Taxes on Tips or Anything Else
Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are on the same page when it comes tipping. They both want to abolish taxes on tips. Of course, this should not surprise anyone. This is a presidential election year, when presidential candidates have to please the voters and purchase their votes. What better way to do so in the state of Nevada, a key swing …
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