The pandemic showed us we need to revamp our unemployment safety net and this includes doing away with tipping.
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My guy says that not taxing “tips” is only going to embolden companies looking to move line item payouts, and force more people to work for minimum wage.
You’ll see a massive wave of previously non-tip jobs turn into tipped jobs, which only benefits the employer.
Yep. We’ve already seen a massive push of POS that prompt you for a % based tip… Testing 20% as minimum in some cases. As tip fatigue sets in, more and more places are going to find that fewer and fewer people are tipping.
Frankly speaking, no job should be tip based.
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Trump and his team don’t think that far ahead.
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Yeah. Raise the fucking federal minimum wage. Mandate that it keep pace with inflation.
Honestly the more rules they make the worse it gets. We can’t have a air quality protection without it turning into a gold rush for collecting and selling breathable air.
Fuck tips. If you work, you should be getting a living wage, not hoping you score a $100 tip to scrape through the month. Tips are a wage subsidy for corporations.
Yup. This is slapping on a bandaid for a very select few. The real problem is wages and cost of living.
This is as little as possible, and it will be used in lieu of an actual minimum wage increase. Democrats will coast on it for as long as they can before they do as little as possible again in another 15 years.
B b but Dems bad! That didn’t take long from you.
If you want them to do more, then you have to vote and give them consistent victories in all 3 houses.
If Democrats want me to say good shit about their complete lack of effort towards raising wages, they can raise wages. Until then, I’m going to gripe about it.
Government workers and blue states got theirs, so it’s no longer a problem as far as Democrats are concerned.
If you want then to be more progressive, then they need to win elections first. When they lose, they go to the center to find voters. They’ve had all 3 houses (presidency, house of reps and Senate) for 4 years of the last 24 years. 6 years of the last 32 years. 6 years of the last 44 fucking years. They are on an epic losing streak because the left never shows up to vote. And you wonder why they go to the center to find voters?
Just support them for a few more decades no matter how many times they betray you, and they’ll totally do what you want.
Inflation outpaces incrementalism. It’s why Democrats are so enamored with it.
Sinema’s thumbs down defines the party until they do better.
I still vote for the shitty anti-worker party over the shittier more anti-worker party, but since I gripe, you have to pretend I’m not voting so you can lecture me for not being as delighted as you are that the party won’t fix shit.
Few more decades? You’re talking as if they’ve had control. They have not. I already told you they’ve been on an epic losing streak because the left never shows up. They’ve had control of all 3 for 6 years of the last 44 years. 6 measly years, out of the last 44 fucking years. That means they have to reach across the aisle for 38 years of the last 44 fucking years. Can’t handle this huh? So you have to pretend … whatever that stuff above was.
And you wonder why progress is slow?
Who said I’m pretending you don’t vote? I’m using the term you in broad sense.
That is so naive.
It’s what he said.
If you’re not able to pay your employees a living wage, your company does not have a viable business model and you need to either change it to a viable model or shut down the business.
I’ll take a bad policy to win a swing state and make sure we don’t lose that Senate seat.
Here’s my vision:
- Raise minimum wage. We want food and housing. This shit shouldn’t be impossible to get
- Implement universal basic income. Again. WE WANT FOOD AND HOUSING, JESUS CHRIST
- Implement a wealth tax. Great hordes of wealth being untaxed while income is just reinforces generational poverty
- Eliminate income tax now that wealth tax is covering everything. It disproportionately punishes workers versus the ultra-wealthy who don’t get paid in money. Meanwhile, who’s getting taxed is just not using the money they got taxed to pay for… And say it with me, kids, food and housing
The first three are great, the fourth idea is insane. Why shouldn’t people pay into their government? If you’re poor, like the first $25k, fine let that be tax free, but why not keep the money in the government coffers and provide single payer healthcare, free college tuition, student debt forgiveness, municipal broadband? Our taxes are not high compared to other western nations.
I’m not saying don’t tax me. I’m saying don’t tax me based on income. Tax me based on accumulated worth. Its possible to be highly paid but to have started in such a back foot that you’re still in the hole. Meanwhile folks like that are paying more into society than anyone else through sales tax because they need to do things like furnish homes they bought
But if you tax based on wealth, doesn’t that make home ownership less possible? Property taxes aren’t going away, but now a wealth tax is going to hit property owners? Sales tax is extremely regressive. Income tax is one of the few ways to do progressive taxing.
It means you’ll start paying a little more tax as value acculates in your property holding. The goal is, yes, long term property holders will pay more tax the longer they hold the land. More importantly, it’ll hit landlords super hard and first time home buyers barely even a little. The goal is to tax people based on their ability to pay, and to avoid creating permanent classes where all the value created by the workers goes up the chain to the wealthy.
All you would end up doing is creating a new business for accountants to devalue someone’s holdings. I assume that you are saying that the wealth will be the value of the asset less any loan against the property, because that’s the only way a first-time home buyer would be taxed nearly nothing. Why wouldn’t the wealthy simply take loans against their assets thereby devaluing them for the purposes of a wealth calculation? The same way that they borrow against their stock portfolio.
All wealth is created by workers… Any wealth used for the good of all society is coming from the workers same as all profit does. No need to add the middleman… Just charge it all to the corporations… First our work pays for society, only what’s left over after should be considered profit
Eliminate all taxes on individuals, charge the whole bill for a functioning society to the corporations (preferably at the same ratio as the corporations make profit, ie if a company makes 10% of all the profit that quarter they pay 10% of the bill)… We the people democratically decide what all is included in a functioning society
I believe in no apostrophes in tips. Also tipping should be banned and thus not need to be taxed.
I think people should be paid a living wage, and I should still be able to tip. Because it’s fun.
I’m inclined towards a universal sales tax, and elimination of income tax. That cuts out loopholes for billionaires who run around buying property, buildings, and yachts - a 10 or 12% tax would fix that (of course, every solution provides its own set of problems) The other solution is having my employer “tip” me every two weeks.
Why are you for a regressive tax that will hit the poor much harder than the rich?
Income tax can be set up as a progressive taxation system, but sales tax, even with an added luxury tax is inherently regressive because poor people spend more of their money as a proportion of their income.
Not a tipped worker here: are tips currently calculated as part of SS earned income? How will exempting tips from taxes affect future benefits for these workers?
Tips are just added to what you made so yeah, it counts wherever an hourly wage counts.
However the current system just gets people not to report tips, so realistically they’re paying a lot less into SS anyway. It’s basically just the government going “alright let’s make that official instead of tax fraud”
this may make harder for tipped workers to access credit, since they can claim they made way more tips than they actually did since is tax free, forcing banks to exclude tips as proof of income for mortgage applications and such
Probably one of the most overlooked issues, but it’s not like we’re going to be buying houses in the future, we’ll just rent them from corporations
Why the apostrophe?
In “they’re?” It replaces the a in “they are”
No… in “TIP’S.”
I don’t see that, maybe it was a typo they edited out
Ah, well that’s where the tip lives. It’s the tip’s jar /s
I once had a coworker labeling prepped food containers, and we only realized at the end that this was not the assignment for him. We had chikun, leming slices, tumaters, and it was kind of a mess. His native language was English, but not everyone’s was, and his phonetic interpretations were different for the rest of us to understand. Not his fault, but neat handwriting doesn’t automatically make you the best one to write
People claim their tips? I just let the IRS assume that I was terrible at my job.
Devils advocate here. How do you incentivize doing a good job as a waitstaff without increasing costs without tips? If your pay is x and no tips, what else is there other than do a good job or else I’ll fire you?
The same way as every other job on earth that doesn’t tip.
A 10 cent raise? There are servers that make several hundred dollars a week due to tips and you want them to give that up for a yearly 10 cent raise? Good luck convincing anyone to give that up.
How do you incentivize doing a good job
By paying them, same as any other job. Should every other job be 2.13 plus tips because your infernal client feels like obstreperous karens should decide if a person deserves food and shelter based on how thorough a job they do of kissing ass?
You are being disingenuous by suggesting all service is equal. There is a difference between exceptional customer service and mediocre. Don’t you think servers should be able to be rewarded for going above and beyond?
Obviously the business needs to pay a fair wage but tipping in the service industry allows exceptional service to be rewarded.
Don’t you think servers should be able to be rewarded for going above and beyond?
Sure. Here. have a Jack Chick Tract. 2.13 is obscene and you know it.
I never once said that it is ok to pay servers below minimum wage because they make it up in tips. Using that as your argument for why we shouldn’t tip is a straw man fallacy.
If a place is offering below minimum wage to work for tips, who’s fault is it for working there? I understand that people are many times not in a position to negotiate pay, especially when it’s an industry standard but at some point workers have to stand up for themselves. There is a huge movement here in the US with millennials and gen x refusing to work for poor pay. That is the only way to change the industry.
I never once said that it is ok to pay servers below minimum wage because they make it up in tips
2.13 is the minimum wage for tipped workers.
And now you’re blaming the exploited for their exploitation.
Why even have a minimum wage when the people with no power at all can just choose not to be exploited and starve?
