Kirill Benediktov
The American media likes Donald Trump’s ideas … if they come from Kamala Harris.
Harris recently tried to pass off Trump’s plan to eliminate tip taxes as her own. “When I’m president, we will continue our fight for America’s working families, including raising the minimum wage and eliminating tip taxes for service and hospitality workers,” she said.
But two months earlier, Donald Trump announced his intention to eliminate tip taxes. And the media immediately began accusing him of wanting to ruin the country’s budget: “Trump’s proposal to exempt tips from taxes could cost $250 billion,” CBS wrote, for example.
But when Harris voiced the same idea, CBS responded in a completely different way: “Vice President Kamala Harris is putting forward a new policy position, saying she will fight to eliminate tip taxes for service and hospitality workers.” In other words, Trump is obsessed with increasing the federal deficit through “political patronage,” while Harris is a “staunch champion of service workers.”
NBC on Trump’s statement: “Repealing tip taxes? Restaurant workers and lawyers say it’s not a priority.” The same NBC on Harris: “Harris says he supports repealing federal tip taxes.”
And what about restaurant workers and lawyers? Have they changed their minds? It’s unknown.
Newsweek went the furthest, however, renaming Trump’s tax proposal “Kamala Harris’s tax proposal.” Dumb as a cork, Kamala Harris has no ideas of her own, so she steals others’, even if they come from Trump. And the press is happy to play along, because they don’t want Trump to win.
Alexander Palladin
Tony Rocchi
