19th August 2024, 9:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 19th August 2024, 9:42 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
The best think Trump could do for the country would be to join the Hermit's Union and seal himself into a cave out in the woods, alone, for the rest of his horse-blooded unnatural life. His brush with death didn't change him at all. He's not Scrooge, he's just Trump.
In either case, Harris is raising in popularity, and picking Walz seems to have given her a massive bump. We have a singularly odd moment in history, where Trump picked the LEAST popular vice presidential candidate in living history, and Harris has managed to pick the MOST popular VP candidate. That may actually be enough to win this, but we have one big thing left. There's a very good chance that at the convention, since the VP reveal has already been done, they will be focusing on party platform as their big convention surprise. They've revealed a number of good policy decisions, and they are likely to keep that momentum going. Again, good decisions, not great.
No taxes on tipping? Good. I say that minimum wage should be universally required for jobs like waiting tables and bartending, as well as significantly raising said minimum wage so that we can abolish the tipping practice altogether like other countries, but this is still a good start.
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But can we at least work in some requirements that someone has to actually be working a service job like that to get tipped? I foresee landlords pushing the concept of "tipping" them or corporate executives sneaking in "tips" to themselves from each other in order to evade taxes.
Not saying it's a bad idea because of those things, as a middle of the road measure, it's an important one, it just needs some loopholes closed.
Other matters are generally favorable, and Walz is more open about the atrocities taking place in Gaza right now. Harris, of course, as the CURRENT VP, can't really go against Biden at the moment, but we'll see.
In either case, Harris is raising in popularity, and picking Walz seems to have given her a massive bump. We have a singularly odd moment in history, where Trump picked the LEAST popular vice presidential candidate in living history, and Harris has managed to pick the MOST popular VP candidate. That may actually be enough to win this, but we have one big thing left. There's a very good chance that at the convention, since the VP reveal has already been done, they will be focusing on party platform as their big convention surprise. They've revealed a number of good policy decisions, and they are likely to keep that momentum going. Again, good decisions, not great.
No taxes on tipping? Good. I say that minimum wage should be universally required for jobs like waiting tables and bartending, as well as significantly raising said minimum wage so that we can abolish the tipping practice altogether like other countries, but this is still a good start.
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But can we at least work in some requirements that someone has to actually be working a service job like that to get tipped? I foresee landlords pushing the concept of "tipping" them or corporate executives sneaking in "tips" to themselves from each other in order to evade taxes.
Not saying it's a bad idea because of those things, as a middle of the road measure, it's an important one, it just needs some loopholes closed.
Other matters are generally favorable, and Walz is more open about the atrocities taking place in Gaza right now. Harris, of course, as the CURRENT VP, can't really go against Biden at the moment, but we'll see.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)