I dislike the elimination of taxes on tips because it opens a new loophole for rich assholes but I'm 100% behind eliminating sub-minimum wages.
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It does feel like we should be encouraging the end of tipping, not asking it to stick around forever.
Removing the minimum wage exception to tips does help with that. Part of the reason why tips are inventived
Plus taxes on tips as they exist already has quite a number of assumptions that tipping will always exist. For instance, assumptions of a minimum 8% tip rate for reporting. Which will be withheld from pay from at least that assumption (which you can get back if you earn less by filling)
Wouldn't the elimination of taxes on tips entrench that non-taxable income as something servers would die before ever surrendering? Treating it as income means that whether that money is coming from hourly vs. tips is irrelevant and, at the end of the day, hourly compensation is always more reliable if all else is equal.
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This is absolutely horrible! Whatever will be next? 5 weeks paid holiday?!?!
This is un-American, which is why I vote Trump. 🤪😜
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crikey! here we have a red capped mole rat and aint it a beaut! this little guy is engaged in its favorite pastime - unconfined rage at the "other" followed by some political self-immolation. we'll leave this one to do its thing and trek on, mate.
edit: poor attempt at channeling the late steve irwin observing a republican voter in its natural habitat. undercooked and will be retired. :-/
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And to clarify, she is also calling for an overall increased minimum wage at the same time
It won't be enough, it never will, but at least it raises it in the few states that have less than or no minimum. I'm guessing Georgia and Wyoming still have a lesser minimum because it just wasn't worth the effort to change the laws.
There's a chance they go further and make things better in the longer-term
If dems get the house and maintain the senate, there's a decent chance that some dem reps will take a crack again at tying the minimum wage to inflation. There were proposed bills in the past by dems which would do exactly that
I keep going back to this whenever someone in a US politics discussion says "Harris' campaign doesn't go far enough in ___"...
Harris can barely promise anything truly special if Republicans have even one potent avenue of obstruction, so it's up to US voters to deliver their voice towards what they want to see.
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That would be huge. Then the debate is back to what is a "livable wage", and how can you calculate it for differing areas. It would be nice to have constructive arguments again.
My opinion is to break it up, have an overall federal, then state, then urban. Same with any type of UBI scenario since no one thing is going to fit all needs.
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