Episode 335: Trump Tackles Taxes on Tips

The Working Lunch

This week, the former and possibly future President of the United States, Donald Trump, suggested that if elected, he would eliminate taxes on tipped income. Two questions. Doesn’t he need a willing Congress to do that and secondly, how did tips find their way into being a presidential campaign issue? We’ll discuss. And it was an important week on the minimum wage ballot front with big news out of both Arizona and Massachusetts. The landscape for the November ballot got a lot more clarity this week and we’ll dive into it. We’ll talk about those issues and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.