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Shaw: More Trump lunacy on tax policy

In tax policy during Trump’s rally in Tucson Thursday:

On the path to elimination of all taxes? Eliminate overtime pay from taxes? How is that equitable for a salaried worker making the same earned income as a higher-wage hourly worker with 20% of his earned income being overtime?  

And Project 2025 recommends affording employers to calculate overtime over a longer period to deprive workers of overtime through strategic scheduling.

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Shaw: More Trump lunacy on tax policy

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In tax policy during Trump’s rally in Tucson Thursday:

On the path to elimination of all taxes? Eliminate overtime pay from taxes? How is that equitable for a salaried worker making the same earned income as a higher-wage hourly worker with 20% of his earned income being overtime?  

And Project 2025 recommends affording employers to calculate overtime over a longer period to deprive workers of overtime through strategic scheduling.

What Project 2025 says: “Congress should provide flexibility to employers and employees to calculate the overtime period over a longer number of weeks.”

Guessing the next shoe to drop will be revisiting elimination of the estate tax. 

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