- Most tipped workers already don’t pay federal taxes.
- Increasing the tipped minimum would do more.
Edit: really there should be no minimum lower than the hourly minimum.
Abolish tipping. Make “gratuity” transactions illegal under IRS code so that the only way to “tip” is in cash. Overnight, the tipped staff will quit and the owners will be forced to pay a proper wage if they want to hire anyone.
Sometimes my company manages a project so well that we hit a performance bonus. I split that bonus amongst the members of that specific team, including prior contributors. I do not lower their salaries by twenty percent and expect the client’s bonus to offset the lower salary. If that would be craY for me to do, why isn’t it for restaurants.?
If you’re in Massachusetts, consider voting for Question 5 to end the separate tipping minimum wage. It’s a good first step
Specifically voting yes on that question.
You may have seen many restaurants putting out signs saying to vote no. That was done by management and front of house staff because they don’t want to pay their employees at the minimum wage and they don’t want to share their tips with back of the house staff (who also deserve the tips as much as FOH).
“Increasing the tipped minimum would do more.”
n-n-n-NOPE.
paying workers a livable wage is the real answer.
as every other country with a livable minimum wage can attest to.
Someone more eloquent and knowledgeable then me made an argument about how the ‘no taxes on tips’ was going to be step one and then ‘no limits’ on tips would be step two which would lead to some unholy abomination of tax evasion for the already insanely rich. I don’t remember where I saw that, though.
I’m not an expert and I can plainly see that as well.
