Former Bartender AOC Attacks Trump's 'No Tax On Tips'

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"No taxes on tips" is part of the "One Big Beautiful Bill" the Trump administration wants to pass. It is meant to provide some tax relief to working-class members of the food and beverage industry.

But Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a former bartender, is railing against the proposal.

She says the bill is a "deal with the devil" and the 'no tax on tips' part is a "scam."

As the spending bill goes to the House for a vote after passing the Senate, AOC took to the floor to oppose it.

“On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam of that text, a little bit of the fine print there,” Ocasio-Cortez told her colleagues in the House.

The annual limit for 'no tax on tips' is $25,000.

But anyone making over $150,000 a year is also not eligible for the tax break.

AOC also claimed taxes would go up on Americans making less than $50,000 annually. In fact, it includes an extension of the tax cuts first passed in 2017. She also addressed proposed cuts to Medicaid and the SNAP program (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) that is included in the bill.

“The cap on that is $25,000 while you’re jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,0000 across the United States, while taking away their SNAP, while taking away their Medicaid, while kicking them off of the ACA and their health care extensions," the Democrat claimed.

AOC continued, "So if you’re at home and you’re living off tips, you do the math. Is that worth it to you? Losing all your health care, not able to feed your babies, not being able to put a diaper on their bottom in exchange for what?"

"This bill is a deal with the devil," she insisted.

The Hill reported in January, "In the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 54 percent said they 'strongly' or 'somewhat” back' eliminating taxes on earnings from tips. Twenty-three percent said they 'neither favor nor oppose' getting rid of taxes on tip earnings, and 22 percent said they are 'strongly' or 'somewhat' against terminating taxes on earnings from tips."

So the majority wants this tax cut. Hopefully it happens and helps those in service industries.

Whether AOC likes it or not.

You do have to wonder if she wasn't in Congress and was still bartending if she would still actually oppose this.

Cheers.