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The reason so many businesses are putting out a cup or container with the word "TIP" on it is twofold.

One reason is that our corrupt federal government has allowed business owners a legal ability to finacially benefit from any tips presented by our public. The tip credit, which was passed back in the late 1960's, has allowed busineesses to benefit from the tips our public gives workers in the service industry. You see, if customers give tips to workers, our government will now allow the employer to lower the wages of those workers to wages below the minimum wage requirements of this country.
The tip credit allows business to save money and thus benefit themeselves because our public has chosen to tip some of their employees.

Therefore it is only logical that businesses will start putting out tip jars since those tips now mean revenues for the business. When customers place money into containers with the word "TIP" written on it, what they are actually doing is giving money that will enable the business to pay it's employees as little as $2.13 an hour. By putting money into these containers what the public is actually doing is saving the business owner money and subsequently increasing the business owner's own profits for himself.

Secondly, the reason so many businesses are putting out containers with the word "TIP" written on it is to deceive the public into falsely believing that they do not have a right to determine precicely who should receive their tip. You see, these containers do not have any name on them for such would actually entitle that individual to the customer's tip and the business could not steal the money for themselves. When customers are denied their right to determine who should receive their tip, as is the case with so called tip jars, there can be no legal entitlement on the part of any employee as to the moneys placed into the jar. You know the old argument. I don't see your name on it.

Tipping is a citizen's constitutional right to give his momey to whom ever he chooses without interference from the government, These principals are addressed thoughout our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Liberty and economic freedom are both guaranteed by these documents and both address the public's right to spend their money however they choose. Tipping is the public's constitutional and god given right to spend their money however they choose which would include determining who should receive their money. Businesses do not want our public to enjoy such rights for such rights hinder their ability to steal this money for themselves.

Tip jars, employer required tip pooling, the tip credit and automatic gratuities are all a concentrated and intentional effort by the restaurant industry to depive customers of their consitutional right to determine for themselves who should be the recipient of their tip. When customers are allowed their constitutional right to determine who will be the recipient of their tip, restaurants and other service industry businesses are legally prohibitted from taking the moneys for themselves. However, when businesses successfully deprive the customer of his ability to determine who should be the recipient of his tip, which is the case with all the afore mentioned business practices, there is no premise for protecting the money as the property of a specific individual and the business is free to claim such moneys for themselves.

Business know that if they can prevent the customer from determining who their tip is intended for then they can claim it for themselves. Tip jars deprive the public of their right to determe precisely who will be the recipient of their tip by relucting to put several jars with each worker's name on it out so customers have a choice of who they wish to tip. Employer required tip pooling forces the customer's tip to be pooled among employees whom the employer has chosen to participate in a tip sharing program again depriving the customer of his right to determine for himself who should receive his tip. The tip credit allows businesses to finacially benefit themselves to customer's tip irregardless of whether or not it was the customer's intent to benefit the business. Again, the customer's right to determine whether or not the business will benefit from his tip is deprived the customer. The tip credit deprives customers of their right to determine who should receive their tip and arbitrarily gives the finacial benefits of the customer's tip over to the business owner. Automatic gratuities not only deprive the customer of his right to determine who should be the recipient of his tip but also deprive the customer of his right to determine what amount he will give and the right to determine if a tip will be given.

The most important reason businesses are resorting to these illegal and unconstitutional business practices which deprive the customer of his right to determine who will be the recipient of his tip is to deceive the public into believing that they do not have such rights. The more businesses practices that they can come up with which deprive customers of their right to determine who will be the recipient of their tip the more likely customers will be to buy into the notion that they do not have a constitutional right to determine for themselves who should receive their tip. If businesses are sucessful and customers actually buy into this load of crap, businesses can take the money for themselves. No one will complain if they think the have no reason to complain. It's all about perceptions and that's where the meida gets involved. Business are in cahoots with the media to insure that the public never perceives that they actually have a constitutional right to determine for themselves who should be the recipient of their tip. I challenge all of you to present any article, publication or tv program addressing even the possibility that the public has a constitutional right to determine who should be the recipient of their tip or that business may be violating the constitutional rights of the public with business practices such as employer required tip pooling, tip jars, tip credits and automatic gratuities.