So Much For Billionaires: Joe Biden’s IRS Is Now Coming For Waiters And Waitresses’ Tips
ZeroHedge, Feb 10, 2023 – Excerpts:
The Biden administration’s lip service about new IRS enforcement only being targeted toward the country’s wealthiest appears to be just that: lip service.
Instead, while we have been distracted with rhetoric about billionaires paying their fair share, the Biden Administration’s IRS is actually looking to stock its coffers with the tips of waiters and waitresses across the country. This newly planned targeting of middle-class Americans was proposed this week.
Earlier this week the IRS proposed a new procedure to “improve tip reporting compliance”, as they so brilliantly put it. Fox News reported:
As part of the program, which wouldn’t go into effect until after a multi-month public comment period, the IRS could withdraw liability protection related to “rules that define tips as part of an employee’s pay” from employers that don’t cooperate.
The program can’t go into effect until it makes it through a multi-month comment period, Fox News reported.
Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., the chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Tax, told Fox this week: “Washington has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. Now, the IRS is going after middle-income families and working moms and dads who are just trying to make ends meet and put food on the table.”
“My colleagues and I have warned for months that the IRS would start targeting hardworking Americans in the Biden administration’s quest for more taxpayer dollars. Now, we’re starting to see some of these concerns come to fruition,” he continued….
[Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Neb]: “Bank surveillance efforts, 1099-Ks, 87,000 new IRS agents to target taxpayers, and now a new program to go after service industry workers’ tips are all a direct result of the Biden administration’s desire to tax working families and small businesses as much as possible.”
Smith continued: “Make no mistake: the administration’s many attempts at raising revenue are because they are unwilling to come to the table to address the debt crisis, which would require curbing their spending addiction.”
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While is is admirable that House Republicans have pledged to resist the Biden IRS crusade to tighten the noose on service workers’ tips, Washington Republicans do not have a politically feasible plan to curb Washington’s “spending addiction.”
Washington Republicans, in fact, are fully complicit in our federal government’s ‘spending addiction” – as the Wall Street Journal pointed out recently:
The Back End of an Omnibus – WSJ – Dec 22, 2022 — “Republicans… haven’t shown a whiff of interest in fiscal restraint since the early days of Paul Ryan’s tenure as House speaker. Their majorities broke the bank during the Trump administration, enabling Democrats to point to deficits as reason to resist further tax reform. They held hands with the left to partake in five Covid bailouts in 2020 alone. They joined again to pass Mr. Biden’s infrastructure bill and the semiconductor slush fund. Members of the new, supposedly responsible Republican House majority weeks ago voted to keep the earmark gravy flowing.”
Washington Republicans have a golden opportunity to get on board and support the most powerful economic acceleration plan on the face of the earth – a plan that will obliterate our big government “spending addiction,” generate massive, ongoing budget surpluses, and help lift millions of Americans up out of poverty.
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