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Aug 19 2025
Why I voted YES: No tax on tips
For too long, waiters, bartenders, hairdressers, hotel staff, and countless other hardworking Americans watched our government take too much of their money. These are people whose livelihood depends on tips.
The One Big Beautiful Bill allows tipped workers to deduct up to $25,000 of qualified tips from their federal income taxes. For the average server or hotel worker, that could be over $1,300 a year they get to keep in their pockets. Roughly 6 million Americans are tipped workers, and the biggest winners will be low and middle-income households.
This is how we grow our economy—not by punishing success, but by rewarding hard work. Tax reform is fair, simple, and pro-worker. I was proud to vote for the most pro-worker policy in American history, and that’s why I voted YES.
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