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@RightWingCheese from Colorado submitted…12hrs12H
President Joe Biden’s recent executive actions on asylum and other border-security issues mark more than a shift to a more restrictive immigration policy. They’re also a rejection of the narrative that progressive advocacy groups and Latino Democrats have been pushing for years: that the…
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“it's part of a broader cultural shift towards de-individualization that is at the heart of the split between 00s/Obama-E…”
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On Sunday President Donald Trump proposed to make workers’ tips nontaxable.Trump announced the proposal Sunday at a rally in Nevada, trying to appeal to that swing state’s service-industry workers. Trump narrowly lost Nevada in 2020 and 2016, and the state is seen as closely competitive again this year. “For those hotel workers and people that get tips, you’re going to be very happy, because when I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes on tips,” he said. “We’re going to do that right away first thing in office because it’s been a point of contention for years and years and years, and you do a great job of service.”The proposal would create a two-tiered labor market where tipped workers would gain a significant advantage over other low-wage employees because they could potentially avoid Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes and federal income taxes. Employers, who owe payroll taxes on both tips and wages, would have an incentive to keep wages low and encourage tips instead. Trump himself owns service-industry businesses. Depending on how it is written and implemented, the tax advantage could push tipping culture into new spaces. An auto-body shop could restrain its prices and wages and strongly encourage tipping as a way to get untaxed income to workers. Tips are now taxable income—a box on the W-2 says “wages, tips and other compensation”—but the Internal Revenue Service has long struggled to get employers and workers to report that income accurately. The U.S. offers employers a tax credit to encourage accurate reporting of tips.
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@ISIDEWITH submitted…12hrs12H
Medicare Advantage is simultaneously *more* costly to the public, yet its enrollees receive *less* care.Medicare Advantage plans employ two strategies to drive up overpayments from the government:(1) Diagnostic upcoding (making patients "look" more sick on paper, which determines payments.)(2) Avoiding truly sicker (read: unprofitable) enrollees.These strategies generated more than half a *trillion* dollars in overpayments for MA plans between 2007 and 2024, according to one analysis from the nonpartisan Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.Despite these overpayments, MA enrollees actually receive *less* care on average than those in traditional Medicare - by 9%. How? Through managed care techniques like prior authorizations, network restrictions, and provider incentives to curtail care.
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Hamas accepts a U.N. resolution backing a plan to end the war with Israel in Gaza and is ready to negotiate details, a senior official of the Palestinian militant group said on Tuesday in what the U.S. Secretary of State called "a hopeful sign".Conversations on plans for Gaza after the Israel-Hamas war ends will continue on Tuesday afternoon and in the next couple of days, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Tel Aviv after talks with Israeli leaders. "It's imperative that we have these plans."Blinken met Israeli officials on Tuesday in a push to end the eight-month-old Israeli air and ground war against Hamas that has devastated Gaza, a day after President Joe Biden's proposal for a truce was approved by the U.N. Security Council.Ahead of Blinken's trip, Israel and Hamas both repeated hardline positions that have undermined previous mediation to end the fighting, while Israel has pressed on with assaults in central and southern Gaza, among the bloodiest of the war.On Tuesday, however, senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri, who is based outside Gaza, said it accepted the ceasefire resolution and was ready to negotiate over the details. It was up to Washington to ensure that Israel abides by it, he added.He said Hamas accepted the formula stipulating the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and a swap of hostages held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners jailed in Israel.
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Don’t negotiate with terrorists
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