Comment on Harris says she supports eliminating federal taxes on tips
Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 3 months agoI worked for the food service industry for almost a decade and never met a waitress or waiter that declared their tips, let alone declared enough to retire on via social security.
There’s almost no chance this will effect the retirement of any waitresses in the U.S.
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Terribly absolutist of you, old chum.
Yes, the situation is shit, but that shouldn’t mean accepting things which make it even worse.
The US tipping culture is literally from trying to have legal slaves. Not even wage-slaves, because those require wages.
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Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh yeah I mean of course we should get rid of tipped wages and just make it a normal hourly wage, but I was just trying to make the point that removing the taxes on tips isn’t gonna somehow make it impossible for waitresses to retire, it’s the non-hourly wage and the rest of the economy that’s doing that.
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Fair enough.