What difference does it make who came up with it first?

The only question is whether it's good policy. Please stop telling our side what to do while yours is melting down. Team Trump has so many issues right now you should focus your attention on what THEY do. Kamala's got this Lester. Calm down.

http://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-no-taxes-tips-072050096.html
Trump Says 'No Taxes On Tips' Was His Idea. It Was A GOP Candidate's Proposal Years Ago.
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"Former President Donald Trump took to social media late Saturday night to claim that he came up with an idea to end taxes on tips despite another Republican candidate proposing such a policy over a decade ago. Trump, in a rant on his Truth Social platform, called Vice President Kamala Harris a “COPYCAT” and shared a screenshot of a right-wing social media account that accused her of having “plagiarized directly” from him.
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"“This was a TRUMP idea - She has no ideas, she can only steal from me,” claimed the former president in one post. He continued in another post, “Kamala has no imagination, whatsoever, as shown by the fact that she played ‘COPYCAT’ with, NO TAXES ON TIPS!”  The alleged “TRUMP idea” arrives years after ex-Republican presidential candidate and former Rep. Ron Paul, in a Jan. 2012 op-ed, called it an “outrage” that wait staff and other service workers had to pay taxes on tips they earned on the clock.
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"The ex-Texas lawmaker, in 2007 and years thereafter, introduced legislation in Congress that looked to exempt tips from federal income and payroll taxes. ... Congressional records also show that at least one other lawmaker has called for no taxes on tips as former Rep. Phil Crane (R-Ill.) pushed the proposal back in 1982. ..."
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Trump has not explained WHICH taxes would be exempted. If ALL Fed taxes are eliminated, then tip workers are not getting credits for FICA, etc., and will be screwed when it comes to Social Security Retirement Benefits. It has also been pointed out that, according to statistics, the VAST MAJORITY of tip workers have very low incomes (less than $32k/year) and are already paying zero or very low taxes. Only the top 20% of tip workers (high-end restaurants) would see a noticeable or useful tax benefit.  
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A brief interlude about how much of their tip income restaurant workers declare on their taxes. There were some studies done in Boston many years ago (1990s) that showed that only a very small portion of tip income was declared. (I forget how the study was done, but it was something like: analyze tax records of restaurants (e.g., total sales = 100; reportable tip income should be around 15% = 15); analyze tax records of the employees; tip income declared above the minimum wage paid by the restaurant = 1 or 2. It was something rather laughable. And there was a small number of tax advisors in Chinatown helping C-town workers with their taxes.)  
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"No tax on tips" sounds simple but it isn't. Trump and Harris need to provide details of their proposals.
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Trigger Warning! Snark alert! "Trump says he will release his "no tax on tips" plan in two weeks ... along with his health care plan and his infrastructure plan."

…is just stealing all of Trumps policy proposals now. This is either desperation or a psyops operation. Who knows which. I’m thinking the later.

But then I realized, she’s playing chess while Trump is learning checkers.
She’s setting him up…. BIG TIME
She’ll probably remind the voters that with her in the WH. And a democratic congress she’ll get this done. But with Trump in tbe WH and a republican congress this will not get done as it’ll interfere with their tax cuts for the rich  
She’s setting up the republicans