Trump Just Proposed Another ‘Absolutely Terrible’ Policy Idea

At his first post-debate rally on Thursday, Donald Trump said he would end taxes on overtime work if he were elected president again.

“We will end all taxes for overtime,” Trump declared in Tucson, Arizona. “That gives people more of an incentive to work. It gives the companies… it’s a lot easier to get the people.”

Ending taxes on overtime pay would require an act of Congress. It could shrink tax revenue and incentivize working well beyond a 40-hour week.

The idea is reminiscent of Trump’s ,” he quipped.

Trump didn’t mention it during his Tucson rally, but he already has a record on overtime policy from his time as president.

Unlike hourly employees, most workers paid on salary are not guaranteed time-and-a-half pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week. Trump’s White House predecessor, Barack Obama, rolled out an ambitious plan to expand overtime protections to millions more salaried workers.

But business groups sued to stop Obama’s rule from taking effect, and then Trump won the presidency. Once he was in the White House, Trump rolled out a watered-down version of Obama’s proposal that gave far fewer people overtime pay.

The Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank that was influential in crafting the Obama plan, said that Trump’s rule was a betrayal of his campaign promises to help the working class.

“This administration is effectively turning its back on millions of workers,” the group said at the time.