Nearly 50,000, mostly Long Islanders, all disillusioned by the demagogues in democratic leadership flocked into and around Nassau Coliseum—longtime home of their beloved New York Islanders—to rally in support of their preferred champion, 45th President Donald J. Trump, and soon to be 47th by all on-hand accounts.
After hype-teasing in a Truth Social post on Tuesday, “I will turn it around, get SALT back, lower your taxes” and “make sure the funding is there to bring the Empire State “back to levels it hasn’t seen for 50 years,” the New York native elaborated upon his plans surrounding all things SALT when he took the rally stage.
According to taxdeduction.org, “the state and local (SALT) deduction permits taxpayers who itemize when filing federal taxes to deduct certain taxes paid to state and local governments.”
According to Trump, admirably unfazed by a second assassination attempt here, a game-day car explosive threat there, with his eager listeners in equally devoid of fear as their leader’s fearlessness rang quite clear, he will “cut taxes for families, small businesses and workers, including restoring the SALT deduction, saving thousands of dollars for residents of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and other high-cost states.”
“[I’m] going to restore SALT jobs and factories will pour back into New York. I know how to do it better than anybody’s ever known how to do it,” Trump boasted, amongst other points he stressed before the moved masses on a Wednesday Night in Uniondale to remember for many devout red statesmen the islandwide.
“We can do it so easily. Wages will soar. The cost of living will fall, and I will deliver the greatest economy in the history of the world to our country and one of the greatest economies in the history of New York state.”
With Trump name-dropping several of the local GOP leaders who spoke before him on Wednesday, notably only one of them—the audacious Congressman Anthony D’Espostio out of the Fourth District — had the gall to bring up SALT by name. “I want Donald Trump to restore SALT,” he expressed, to which Trump complimented him later on:
“Anthony D’Esposito. He’s doing a great job. Thank you, Anthony. SALT—SALT, Anthony. Remember fellas, SALT,” Trump said.
Ahead of the rally, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Queens) stepped across the party aisle to back Trump’s strong taste for SALT—a move the staunchest of his left brethren would liken to controversial fronting, stunting and larping as he desperately seeks to keep a hold on his seat he special-election reclaimed after George Santos’ expulsion. In his Tuesday, September 17 statement, the sitting congressman also challenged The Donald to use his influence to galvanize other Republican lawmakers on the matter.
“I am happy that the former president is saying that he has finally reversed his devastating decision in 2017 to cap the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction,” Suozzi said. “It has been a body blow to my constituents for the past 7 years. If he is truly serious he should urge 100 Republicans in the House and 25 in the Senate to join me to restore the full SALT deduction now!!”
As rally departers were serenaded with calls to sing, dance and play to the beat of The Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.,” some passers by the creative T-shirt vendors that lined the premises were already taking inspiration from relative remarks expressed during the main event by its main character.
“Here’s a Tip: No Taxes on Tips!” one man dressed to the nines with MAGA in his eyes exclaimed as he vertically drew the shape of these words on his current wear, hypothesizing a vertical receipt design.
No tax on tips.
No tips on overtime.
No tax on social security.
A shirt we can all get behind.
“I’m not driven by partisan ideology, I’m driven by results,’ Trump himself revealed, also stating on another occasion, “remember what they say: promises made, promises kept—that’s me.”
What do you have to lose?