Donald trump said Tax-Free Overtime, The Genius of Trump’s Anti-Tax Platform

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00:00Tax-free overtime, the genius of Trump's anti-tax platform.

00:09Donald Trump has done it again.

00:11During a rally on Thursday, September 12th, the former president announced yet another

00:17anti-tax.

00:18If elected, he promises to try to eliminate taxes on overtime pay.

00:23Hourly workers nationwide cheer that idea.

00:26Democrats call it a lie and a desperate plea for votes after a weak debate performance.

00:31But true or false, doable or not, and regardless of his motivation for making the campaign

00:37promise, there's no denying the genius of the move.

00:41Presidential campaigns, working overtime.

00:43We will end all taxes on overtime, Trump said Thursday in Tucson, Arizona.

00:49The people who work overtime are among the hardest working citizens in our country and

00:53for too long.

00:55No one in Washington has been looking out for them.

00:58Democrats fired back by questioning his motives and integrity.

01:01Joseph Costello, a Harris campaign spokesman, said Trump is desperate and scrambling and

01:07saying whatever it takes to trick people into voting for him.

01:11The campaign considers this Trump's latest snake oil sales pitch.

01:15Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat-Oregon, called the proposal as fake as his tan.

01:21The Senate Finance Committee chair said in a statement that Trump knows congressional

01:25Republicans won't pass such changes.

01:27It's obvious his newfound concern for working people is a fraud, Wyden continued.

01:33But even if Trump were lying about his intention to end income tax on overtime, and even if

01:38he only made the suggestion as an act of desperation after losing the debate, pushing more and

01:43more tax breaks for working class Americans would still be a genius plan.

01:47Note the Democrats aren't attacking the idea itself.

01:50The wealthy elite, the group Democrats say should pay their fair share, aren't working

01:55for hourly wages and logging overtime.

01:58It's the poor and the middle class, the very people Democrats claim to support.

02:03In targeting a tax the rich are already exempt from, Trump leaves the left with no ideology

02:09to vilify.

02:10When the former president first suggested ending taxes on tips, the Harris campaign

02:15eventually copied the idea.

02:17When the Trump campaign suggested increasing the child tax credit, Kamala quickly made

02:21her own proposal to do so.

02:24He suggested Social Security benefits shouldn't be taxed.

02:27Now 45 says he'll eliminate overtime taxes if he becomes 47.

02:33What choice do Democrats have but to follow suit?

02:36At the very least, Harris can't be seen as opposing this.

02:40But what if it's real?

02:41Now imagine for a moment that Trump isn't lying and that Congress will work with him

02:45to make it happen.

02:47It only takes a paycheck or two of overtime for most workers to figure out exactly how

02:51far they can push it without jumping up a tax bracket and losing money.

02:55And once that limit is found, it's never willingly crossed again, making overtime tax

03:00exempt pay.

03:02And don't forget, standard overtime is 1.5 times an employee's regular wage, would encourage

03:08workers even more to put in the extra hours.

03:11Trump said some economists told him the results would be unbelievable.

03:15Consider the boost to production across nearly all industries employing hourly wage earners.

03:21Unbelievable indeed.

03:22Talk about jumpstarting the economy.

03:24Yes, the government would lose some tax revenue directly.

03:28However, any increase in overtime hours due to its tax-free status can't be counted in

03:33that deficit, as it wouldn't exist without the change.

03:37And of course, even if workers aren't paying as much in taxes, they are making more money

03:42for themselves and the companies that employ them.

03:45Those businesses, as well as places where the workers spend their additional cash, end

03:49up with a higher taxable income.

03:51Recouping much of that loss of revenue be why pushing no taxes on tips, Social Security

03:57or overtime.

03:58And by promising to increase the child tax credit, the Trump team is keeping the pressure

04:03on Democrats to meet or beat them.

04:06Even if Republicans don't mean it and aren't actually going to try to keep these promises,

04:10it still locks the two major parties into a race to see who can vow to eliminate more

04:14taxes for the poor and middle class.

04:18And simply matching Trump makes Kamala Harris and the Democrats look reactive rather than

04:23active.

04:24To really win in this war, she'll have to promise more.

04:27And as Liberty Nation News senior political analyst Tim Donner once pointed out, there

04:32isn't much a voter is more likely to remember come election day than the politician who

04:36promised to cut taxes, got elected, and then did the opposite.

04:40For that reason alone, Trump's plan is pure genius.

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