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Ted Cruz: “The average deduction was $7,000.”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 13:21

If you're a waiter, if you're a waitress, if you're a bartender, if you're a taxicab driver, if you claim no tax on tips, I wrote that law. Seven and a half million workers benefit from it. The average deduction was $7,000. Now, I got to say to a waiter, or wait, tax, cab driver, a bartender or barber, seven grand is real money. You want to talk about delivering relief, that's real money. (13:21–13:27)

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Asserts that the average deduction from the no tax on tips tax break was $7,000.

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