Your Latest Moment of Duh — When It Comes to

We all know somebody, or have been that somebody, who earns ideas. For many, it would imply the distinction between getting a invoice paid this week or ready until next week. The Big Beautiful Bill, which was signed into law by President Trump last 12 months and assured no tax on ideas, had to be music to the ears of those who earn those gratifying bonuses for their arduous work. If you might be one of those Americans, where is the best place to live to get the best ideas?

Democrats empowered the IRS to observe your non-public transactions and tax every dime of your hard-earned ideas.

Senate Republicans ended that invasive mandate and eradicated tax on ideas.

We are defending your paycheck; they need to shrink it.

— Senate Republicans (@SenateGOP) September 16, 2026

It may be stunning to some, to others, not so a lot, that the bluest areas of the nation are the worst tippers. According to data from the restaurant management platform Toast, during the second quarter of 2026, California, Washington State, and Washington, D.C., got here in close to the underside in the nation for tipping. Restaurant clients in those states left on average less than 18 %. It might be that Californians just cannot afford a healthy tip, as they’ve one of the very best marginal tax charges in the nation. California tippers on average depart 17.2 %, Washington State comes in at 17.6, and the nation’s capital leaves around 17.5 %. The best locations in the nation to make some respectable ideas are Delaware, West Virginia, and New Hampshire, which got here in at the top with tip charges of 22.1, 21.0, and 20.9, respectively. Nationwide, the average got here in at around 19 %.

One of the explanations for the disparity may be the fact that many of these blue states have comparatively high minimal wages. In California, the minimal wage is $16.90 an hour, whereas in Delaware, the minimal wage is $15 an hour. 

If Democrats in Congress care about affordability, then why did every single one of them vote against eliminating taxes on ideas, time beyond regulation, and Social Security?

Instead, Democrats tried to massively hike taxes on working households.

They are affordability frauds.

— White House Press Office (@PressSec) August 18, 2026

In California, there can be a one-time 5 % billionaires’ tax on the November poll, and in Washington State, Democrat Gov. Bob Ferguson signed into law a 9.9 % tax on incomes over $1 million earlier this 12 months. Chances are, if you fall into one of these tax brackets, you will have labored for ideas at some level, but do not now. 

But many Americans now suppose that tipping could have gotten a little out of hand. Where historically, you may tip servers in a restaurant, now everybody from baristas and hair stylists to those who ship furnishings and home equipment are asking for ideas. Where does it end? How about journalists?

Funny, though, how all of the locations where elected officers voted against the Big Beautiful Bill, and the no tax on ideas or time beyond regulation, appear to be the locations that have the crummiest tippers. So, not only do they need those employees to not have ideas, they need to tax them on the information they handle to get.

It’s not shocking to me, as somebody who always ideas my hairdresser, that stingy tippers are sadly the norm for those working arduous in a blue state close to you.

.@POTUS: EVERY SINGLE Democrat in Congress voted AGAINST our historic tax cuts — voting against No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, and No Tax on Social Security for our GREAT Seniors.

DEMOCRATS ARE SICK!! pic.twitter.com/zIj9GXGn7R

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 10, 2026

Editor’s Note: President Trump is main America into the “Golden Age” as Democrats desperately attempt to stop it.  

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