Kamala Harris copies Trump’s proposal and promises to eliminate tip taxes

The Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harrispromised Saturday to eliminate federal taxes on tips paid to waiters and other service workers. The proposal comes a few months after his opponent Donald Trump He had announced at one of his rallies that he was going to do the same. “I was in Las Vegas when a waitress complained about having to pay taxes on her tip money, and I was very surprised to hear that,” he told his audience. “There will be no tip taxes with me, I can say that,” he added.

Harris made the announcement at a rally on the campus of the University of Nevada, one of the states that will decide the election and where the economy relies heavily on its restaurants, hotels and entertainment venues. Trump made the same promise in one of his public speeches in the state.

Kamala’s announcement came in one of her many attempts to reach out to the working class since replacing Biden in the presidential race“I promise that when I’m president, we will continue to fight for working families in America,” she told her audience, vowing to “raise the minimum wage and eliminate tip taxes for service workers.”

In response to Harris’s remarks, Trump posted on his social network ‘Truth Social’: «Kamala just copied my no-tip tax policyThe difference is that she won’t do it, she just wants political support. This was TRUMP’s idea. She doesn’t have any ideas, she has to copy them from me.

In what represents a rare meeting point between the two campaigns, their intentions to reach out to the working class are made clear. Trump initially emphasized the increase in living costs under Biden as an effort to reach this electorate, but in recent weeks he has chosen to reduce this argument to the background, ignoring political scientists close to his team. Harris, for her part, has seen in the proposal an initiative not far from her electoral line that could win her votes and has chosen to present it as her own. Tactics of this style are expected to gain prevalence as the weeks pass and the elections approach.