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@RightWingCheese from Colorado submitted…11hrs11H
President Joe Biden’s recent executive actions on asylum and other border-security issues mark more than a shift to a more restrictive immigration policy. They’re also a rejection of the narrative that progressive advocacy groups and Latino Democrats have been pushing for years: that the…
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“it's part of a broader cultural shift towards de-individualization that is at the heart of the split between 00s/Obama-E…”
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On Sunday President Donald Trump proposed to make workers’ tips nontaxable.Trump announced the proposal Sunday at a rally in Nevada, trying to appeal to that swing state’s service-industry workers. Trump narrowly lost Nevada in 2020 and 2016, and the state is seen as closely competitive again this year. “For those hotel workers and people that get tips, you’re going to be very happy, because when I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes on tips,” he said. “We’re going to do that right away first thing in office because it’s been a point of contention for years and years and years, and you do a great job of service.”The proposal would create a two-tiered labor market where tipped workers would gain a significant advantage over other low-wage employees because they could potentially avoid Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes and federal income taxes. Employers, who owe payroll taxes on both tips and wages, would have an incentive to keep wages low and encourage tips instead. Trump himself owns service-industry businesses. Depending on how it is written and implemented, the tax advantage could push tipping culture into new spaces. An auto-body shop could restrain its prices and wages and strongly encourage tipping as a way to get untaxed income to workers. Tips are now taxable income—a box on the W-2 says “wages, tips and other compensation”—but the Internal Revenue Service has long struggled to get employers and workers to report that income accurately. The U.S. offers employers a tax credit to encourage accurate reporting of tips.
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@ISIDEWITH submitted…12hrs12H
Medicare Advantage is simultaneously *more* costly to the public, yet its enrollees receive *less* care.Medicare Advantage plans employ two strategies to drive up overpayments from the government:(1) Diagnostic upcoding (making patients "look" more sick on paper, which determines payments.)(2) Avoiding truly sicker (read: unprofitable) enrollees.These strategies generated more than half a *trillion* dollars in overpayments for MA plans between 2007 and 2024, according to one analysis from the nonpartisan Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.Despite these overpayments, MA enrollees actually receive *less* care on average than those in traditional Medicare - by 9%. How? Through managed care techniques like prior authorizations, network restrictions, and provider incentives to curtail care.
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@PuzzledProgressive from Kansas submitted…12hrs12H
Rishi Sunak will unveil tax breaks for landlords on Tuesday as he puts reducing the tax burden and boosting home ownership at the heart of the Conservative general election manifesto.The Telegraph can reveal that the Prime Minister will promise to scrap capital gains tax for landlords who sell their property to tenants. The scheme would last two years.Mr Sunak will also pledge a tax cut for 27 million households if he is re-elected by reducing employee National Insurance again, this time to 6 per cent.The return of the Help to Buy scheme and a vow to abolish stamp duty for first-time buyers on properties worth less than £425,000 will also be included in the manifesto.The unveiling of the manifesto, which is about 80 pages long, is one of the last major moments in the campaign calendar for the Tories to trigger a comeback before the general election on July 4.The policies are an attempt by Mr Sunak to return to traditional Tory strengths of cutting taxes and building homes, after years of a rising tax burden and housing shortages.
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Tax breaks for landlords? Exactly what the country was demanding…
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Don’t negotiate with terrorists
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Who sell to tenants
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