Posted on 06/19/2024 10:47:07 AM PDT by karpov
“””””that electrician and that plumber are already making sixty bucks an hour”””””
Sure they are, just like that waitress is making $100.00 off that meal you and your wife just ate.
Don’t confuse the company charges with the employee who is down there crawling around in the cold water and mud under your house.
I would find that interesting but mostly I just find it icky.
I never have done that, you seem to be a dedicated liar.
“Tips are gifts and should not be taxed.” Thank you! It is also why restaurant/bar owners pay a mere pittance in hourly wages, too-a waitress/waiter who has learned good customer service skills will make up the difference-if they can’t then they need to chose a job that is not so customer service oriented. Unless restaurants are going to start paying the high minimum wage, then hell yes those tips should be tax-free. One of the neighbors owns a small farm-to-table restaurant and bar here and they like Trump’s idea, too...
Having paid my way through college as a food and cocktail waitress, I learned customer service-I use those skills even more as a comp case manager-clients are customers, too. Except for the late hours, being a cocktail waitress was easier and the pay per hr + tips was close...
Payments for services rendered are required.
That is why the "service payment" of 18% you pay when you have a party of twelve in a restaurant is not optional. You must pay it and they can sue you if you do not. In fact you can be arrested if you do not.
Tips however are optional. No one will show up on your door step with a warrant if you do not leave a tip.
Thus tips are gifts not wages and should fall under the gift exemption.
Strippers and topless dancers, in other words, hookers and usually drug addicts, are your first example every time the idea of tipping is mentioned.
If fact you implied previously how you know because you "dated" hookers.
This is a part of your life I really wish you would keep to your self.
do you “tip” the waiter who served that table over there, but not your table?
No, you don’t.
You tip the waiter who served YOUR table. You pay him for the work he did for you.
“No one will show up on your door step with a warrant if you do not leave a tip” because you have no contract with the waiter that people with a warrant can enforce.
Nevertheless, it’s still payment for work.
You really are a weird guy, and a liar, I never brought up hookers and never brought dancers first, I have mentioned tip employees and that also includes topless dancers, I asked you once if you have ever dated any strippers or topless dancers.
On another thread you did this nasty trolling, personal attacks, making up fake posts and talking about hookers.
You are doing the exact same thing on this thread.
I wonder if these guys tip in all these situations.
A girl brings your food to your table in a steakhouse, a fast food girl brings your food to your table at Wendys, a fast food girl carries your food out to your car at Jack in the Box when you pulled out of the window line to wait.
Can’t speak for others, but:
Yes (and generously if the work is very well done)
No
No
And the reason is that we all know that tips are about getting paid, not just nice people giving you free money because you are at work and you are doing your job.
“ The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which dislikes most tax cuts..”
But they never met a spending bill they didn’t like.
Here’s the thing. ANYTIME an even a small partof our population can toss off some the yoke of confiscatory taxes it should be celebrated.
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It could be the opening gambit in getting rid of the incomentax
He’s winning over many voters in the state of Nevada, and any state where tourism is number one, with this policy - smart.
I can not order the waiter to do anything, only ask. Because I am not their employer.
I am giving them a gift to show my appreciation for their efforts on my behalf.
Non-taxable.
Payment for services rendered. Only given to someone who does some work for you. Not given to someone who does nothing for you.
Taxable.
Make up for what?
That is a business decision. Good servers will leave and go somewhere else where they are rewarded for their work fairly rather than splitting it with the lazy ones.
Nope that would be their wages.
Tips are gifts.
Only given to someone who does some work for you. Not given to someone who does nothing for you.
Rarely do you give gifts to people who do nothing for you.
For example, you take over a business, you can give the owner and spouse, up to $18,000 a year each for the rest of their lives legally and it falls under "gift tax exemption" and no taxes are owed.
Exempt.
Tips, which are much smaller amounts, are gifts.
And should be exempt.
You are wrong from beginning to end.
You give a waiter a “tip” because he did some work for you.
YOU PAID HIM FOR DOING WORK.
But you’re entrenched in some sort of odd ideology, and immune to facts and reason.
Goodbye.
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