Roughly two months ago, former President Donald Trump promised to eliminate federal taxes on tips for service workers -- a proposal that is hugely popular and has been assessed as a potentially winning idea for the Republican nominee.

This past weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris made nearly the exact same promise and acted as though the idea was her own, and the White House furthered that deception by insisting that President Joe Biden fully supports the idea, according to the Daily Mail.

The problem, though, is that neither Harris nor Biden have ever suggested eliminating or even reducing taxes on tips, and to the contrary, the Internal Revenue Service just last year actually proposed a compliance crackdown on taxable tips.

First Trump, now Harris, call for eliminating taxes on tips

Former President Trump first mentioned in June, and has repeated multiple times since, a story about hearing from a restaurant server in Nevada how burdensome the taxes were on the tips she received, which prompted him to vow to eliminate taxes on tips if he is elected in November.

Then, nearly two months later, during a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Saturday -- and notably just one day after receiving an endorsement from the culinary workers union -- VP Harris essentially proposed the same thing as Trump, doing away with taxes on tips for service industry workers.

CNN reported that Harris told the rally-goers, "It is my promise to everyone here when I am president, we will continue our fighting for working families of America including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers."

Biden "absolutely" supports ending taxes on tips

According to the Daily Mail, the White House has now joined in on the overt theft of former President Trump's idea and has acted as though it is a policy that President Biden and VP Harris have long supported -- even though its never really been mentioned before and Biden's IRS all but proposed the opposite.

During Monday's press briefing, a reporter noted how Harris was now saying what Trump has been saying about eliminating taxes on tips and asked, "If such a similar bill made its way to the president of the United States, President Biden, would he sign that? That’s something -- not something he’s -- he would -- he’s embraced before."

Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre replied, "Yeah, absolutely. Look, this is something that the president supports. He supports eliminating taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers while also raising minimum wage and preventing the wealthy from -- from gaming the system."

"And if you think about what the president has talked about the last three and a half years -- making sure that we have an economy that works for all, not leaving anybody behind, an economy that’s built from the bottom up, middle out -- the president has been fighting -- and the vice president has been fighting to do just that," she continued.

Jean-Pierre then appeared to egregiously violate the Hatch Act's prohibitions on partisanship for government employees by railing against Trump and Republicans with dubious, out-of-context, or outright false claims about their economic proposals and tax policies.

Biden's IRS proposed crackdown on taxing tips

The duplicity of the Biden-Harris administration and White House is further compounded, per the Daily Mail, by the fact that it was just last year, in February 2023, that the IRS revealed a proposed crackdown on service industry workers' compliance with paying taxes on their tips.

Though the proposal supposedly involved "voluntary" participation by employers in a new tip-tracking program, employer participation would be strongly incentivized by the threat of scrutiny or even audits for those who choose not to participate.

Meanwhile, former President Trump has rightly called out his Democratic opponents for stealing his idea that appears to be hugely popular with many working-class voters.