Next: move minimum wages in-line to what they would have been had they been locked to productivity gains since 1970.
Hint: $30+/hr.
Better yet: lock minimum wage to being no less than 3× median rent for any one region
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Finally! This drives me crazy. How is it ok to pay less than the minimum? Even if there is a chance they can make more from tips. The tips are a perk of the job not the main funding source. Idk why we let companies get away with this. If you can't afford to pay a living wage you can't afford to be in business.
"In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living."
-FDR
That's almost as good as raising the minimum wage. Almost.
It's raising a minimum wage.
If there are sub-minimum wages, wouldn't they be the minimum wage?
It’s more of a loophole for jobs like serving that rely on tips. If it was the minimum then all the minimum wage earners would be at server salary.
Another way to help the service industry would be to make medicinal cocaine (and similar) a tax deductible business expense. It’s a more valid business expense than a programmer buying a third monitor.
Or how about banning the practice of making the bartenders/waitresses tip out the bar back or bus boys when they should all just be getting paid a living wage by their employer. That would also be good for tipped employees.
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when they should all just be getting paid a living wage by their employer
The call to end to the minimum wage exception for tipped employees (+ calling for increases in minimum wage) are specifically trying to get more towards a living wage for them?
Cue countless restaurant owners whining and trying to seriously complain that they can’t “compete” without underpaying their employees.
There's a long tail of servers/bartenders who are against this as well because they work at expensive establishments and make bank off tips. Like high double digits an hour.
If the push to convert tips into wages ever becomes serious, conservative media will do its best to platform and promote these servers who stand to lose income off it. We gotta think of a rhetoric/messaging strategy to counter that.
They'll still get tips, they'll just get a higher base pay as well. Why would they be against that?
Propaganda and disinformation. It worked for Door Dash.
"I couldn't possibly compete with other businesses who would also be required to do the same thing in the same way that I would! It just wouldn't be fair!"
Blatantly ignoring allllll the restaurants in California, where everyone gets minimum wage and tips are on top of that
How about we do a maximum wage instead?
That doesn't apply to bonuses. Most of these billionaires have salary in the millions and massive "bonuses" based on whatever metrics they want.
This is probably why they want no taxes on tips so they can claim those bonuses tax free.
"That" doesn't exist - how can you say what this theoretical cap would apply to?
Wage? Naw. Executive salary and stock compensation? Absolutely
Progressive tax rates
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