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Mike Johnson: “Everybody who works in a tipped job, they pay zero taxes now…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson Joins Fox and Friends on Fox News

Published | Video Starts at 04:36

For the people who get up and start working before the sun rises, it goes home after it sets to feed their families. Bob is a great example. He's an Uber driver. He's going to save so much money. And Everybody who works in a tipped job, they pay zero taxes now on the first $25,000 of their tipped income. for the average American that does those jobs, that's about $1,300 more in their pocket. You're talking about millions of Americans. I mean, here in New York, a half a million people worked in tipped jobs. (04:36–04:41)

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Asserts that tipped workers pay no taxes on the first $25,000 of their income.

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