Un-Taxing Tipped wages
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Tell that to a food server who is planning to vote for Trump based on his promise.
Actually, I paid mine. When I was a server, I thought I was close to buying a house, and I didn't want to fudge my income and make it harder to get a loan. But that's rare. Most servers claim very little.
So the millionaires and billionaires have gotten their tax breaks, the middle class theirs, and now the working class is going to finally get theirs. We will soon reach a point where no one pays taxes, and we'll no longer have to argue about that shit.
Nonsense. Jimmy from Firehouse Subs should be lucky he's even getting tips to tax. Just because the working class used to game the system via tax-free cash payment and now is unable to do so as effectively given the rise of card payments (and maybe bank transfer info - no idea how closely that shit is watched), doesn't mean anything has changed.
Pay your share you fvcking peasants!
Has to be a Top 10 "bang for your buck" movie ever made. Budget was only $10 million.
We agree. Anyone who has an income should have some skin in the game. Even me. As I've said many times before, while I'm not sure exactly what my "fair share" should be, it certainly isn't zero.
Don't credit card systems catch all this now? It seems it would be much harder to avoid as cash is out of style.
But many don't agree and love populist rhetoric. Kamala is just as guilty as Trump in terms of populist garbage.
1) There's more cash out there than you realize.
2) A lot of diners regularly leave cash tips even if they pay for their meal with a card.
I always tip in cash- it’s my protest against only the middle class actually paying its share
I am always amazed people carry cash. But they may work in cash, a barber buddy pretty much does cash for everything. He only accepts cash, I theorize it makes it easier to hide income.
I seldom carry cash, but I believe I tip better with the card.
If this becomes law, young strippers might well avoid some income tax when they are young, but they might receive less social security retirement benefits when they become retired ex-strippers if their true young earnings weren't recorded.
This sounds like an issue for that guy on AM radio that preaches that 401k accounts are bad
You don’t rot your insides and roll the dice on your pecker with finasteride minoxidil and all the other shit to say eh I’ll go to this guy. Whatever
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Bullshit. The 17th Amendment became law in 1913.
It's silly for you to blame that on "Democrats" like you think you've just made some brilliant point proving it was the fault of Joe Biden or AOC.
Agree, I never carry cash and tip on the card now. There is no reason to carry cash. I just went to Europe and didn't get any Euros. All cards.... it's great and easy.
"Plagiarism", you claim. YAWN.
Do you even know what "plagiarism" means? Do you seriously think Trump owns the rights to any of his political statements?
So, you're whining like an eight grader because some of Trump's proposals that he asserted against Biden have been allegedly been adopted after she became the nominee by Harris (a completely different person) ???
Why don't you just claim Trump's ideas are allegedly so brilliant that everybody allegedly likes them? (We all know why you don't.).
Accepting cash is much cheaper than the "convenience" fee that credit card companies charge to merchants.
I'm actually like you guys. I almost never have cash. Just a small number of cards. I don't even know how much money is available on them. Buying things is basically an imaginary exercise for me now.
That cost is baked in anyway. Unless someone is giving me a significant discount, it's not worth entertaining.
Dave Ramsey would take you out behind the outhouse and kick your ass.
there's an atm on the first floor of my office. forever i'd hit it on monday morning and pull out $500 cash for the week to have on me. i stopped. nothing i do takes cash. zoo, aquarium, mls games, festivals, on and on none of them take cash. at this point the only reason i still have some is if my daughter is doing stuff with her friends. i liked cash better
Don't know what you mean by "entertaining" so let me ask this.
What do you normally do when a restaurant receipt gives you the option of paying less if you pay cash?
Not all businesses give you an choice (increasingly construction businesses).
Everything is 5% higher because of direct deposit….damn I miss cashing that paycheck at the bar on Friday after work
ha what a world. my pop still talks about cashing checks at bars. off work at 3. bed of the truck full of empties. cash their checks at the bar. i've written this before but alcohol used to be compensable under social security. drunks were unemployed. cash their check at tavern and pull up a stool. cops didn't write many dwis then eithre. didn't want to f with the paperwork. and if they did they'd leave em in the muni and just charge a fine
My grandfather owned a bar on the bad side of town. But….that part of town had a glass factory, sawmill, and small steel operation. The amount of cash he had on hand on Friday was out of bounds. He cashed damn near all their checks. They would bust their ass to get to the bar before he ran out of frozen schooners.
Different times….
I miss going to the bank every Saturday morning to deposit my check and flirting with the tellers and the branch manager. Getting to know them paid off a time or two when I needed to do some business that was a little bit out of the ordinary.
Savvy merchants include fees to credit card companies in the cost of the meal so cash buyers help cover those fees.
Knowing this do some cash buyers lower their tips to servers ? Hope not.
None of them are credit cards. They are all debit cards. I only spend money I actually have (besides my car, which will be paid off next year).
Alright…I’m changing jobs.
Aren’t you also done with work by 3?
Cashing checks and ripping tips early on a Friday…that’s livin
