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[patrick]

Tax free OT to me means no one will work pass their regular schedule

[ti-amie]

Tax free OT to me means no one will work pass their regular schedule

I don't get this. You work an 8 hour day. Your employer says they need you to stay a bit longer to complete a project so your work day becomes ten hours instead of 8. He's implying that that two hours of work would not be taxed? Really? Your employer is just going to hand you the extra $50? Really? Is this a backdoor Project 2025 idea to stop funding Social Security and Medicare while getting rid of Healthcare?

[dryrunguy]

In 1987, when I was 18 and working in a factory the summer before I went to college, all the while worrying about how I was going to pay for college, I would have jumped at the opportunity to work overtime, paid at time-and-a half (e.g., at the time, minimum wage in the U.S. was $3.35/hour minus taxes, overtime pay would have been $5.025/hour untaxed under Trump's tax-free overtime promise). Imagine someone today working in skilled labor making $30/hour taxed but having the chance to make $45/hour untaxed for overtime. A lot of people would jump at that.

Of course, so far, it's just fiction. But still... That's going to resonate with working class, unsalaried people.

[skatingfan]

Tax free overtime was part of the platform because they intend to extensively limit overtime pay.

https://www.americanprogress.org/articl ... rtime-pay/

[dryrunguy]

Tax free overtime was part of the platform because they intend to extensively limit overtime pay.

https://www.americanprogress.org/articl ... rtime-pay/

And if you didn't know that?