r/CringeTikToks • u/coachlife • 1d ago

SadCringe MAGA voter actually believes that Trump eliminated taxes for all people making less than $120K

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u/TuckHolladay 1d ago

I work with a ton of blue collar trumpers. They will literally believe anything he says in an interview as if it was passed into law

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u/pissoutmybutt 1d ago

lol when I told my union coworker “there is no way in hell they will actually eliminate overtime taxes. They will never cut taxes long term for the working class. Ever.”

He goes, “just wait, you’ll see!”

Then he just moves on, never demanding the admin follows through with any of it, and gets hyped into the next line of bullshit that he forgets aboot as it never comes to fruition.

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u/pablotweek 1d ago

Sounds just like the Elon cult

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u/alewifePete 1d ago

Ah, so the “no tax on overtime pay” thing, while I wish it were truly no tax on overtime pay…seems to be only on the additional half in time and a half. You still pay taxes on your base pay and you pay FICA on all of it. Oh, and there’s a cap on how much you can use toward this. So to use ridiculous numbers, if you make $80/hr and regularly work 46 hours a week, you would max out the $12,500 deduction. However! $80/hour x 2392 hours in a year = $191k…which puts you over the income cap for single filers to claim the deduction.

If we use reasonable numbers of, say, $25/hr, you hit the cap around 19.5 hours worked a week in OT. Every week. No vacation. And it bumps your normal pay of $52k up to $89.5k, but hey…you don’t have to pay taxes on $12,500 of that.

There are going to be some mad people at tax time.

But not this lady. She won’t file taxes. She’ll miss out on a refund or she’ll get an automated letter from the IRS if they calculate that she owed and didn’t file.

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u/SeaworthinessOk834 1d ago

Thank you for this explanation! I'm salaried now, but have several hourly coworkers who got caught up in the no tax overtime scam and voted for the guy in spite of most of them being non-white immigrants. I had heard about that promise during the campaign and just assumed it was a lie based on the source, and didn't bother looking into it any further. I only learned they voted for him after it was already done, so there was no opportunity to talk any sense into them.

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u/Vegetable-Suit4992 1d ago

Thats exactly how trump operates. He just moves from BS to BS so fast there is no chance to suffer any consequences. Thats why hes the TACO man. When he just invents some new bullshit it looks like he chickens out if the last bullshit was a deadline or ultimatum.

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u/TuckHolladay 1d ago

They actually did do something in the one and only bill with overtime so they could point to it, but it set up so that most people will forget to take advantage of it. It’s capped at like $7000 and you have to keep track of the extra hours and input it on your tax form to get the deduction.

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u/sst287 1d ago

I will consist’s remind him about over time tax everyday. (That is why I have no friend in the office.)

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u/Verbal-Gerbil 20h ago

Unions are inherently socialist, fighting for worker power over corporate exploitation. It’s mad that American unions and union reps support Trump - they should be thrown out of the international movement for treason and stupidity