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> For years, I’ve happily subscribed to the practice of throwing down at least 20 percent almost anytime the little iPad spins my direction ... If you can affor
by clouddrover 4y ago
> For years, I’ve happily subscribed to the practice of throwing down at least 20 percent almost anytime the little iPad spins my direction ... If you can afford a $7 latte, they argued, why are you bristling at a $1 tip that would help your server?
If the extra $1 constitutes the "true" price then why not set that price and get rid of the tip?
Tipping is stupid. It's much better to have employers pay employees properly in the first place.
- ksaj 4y agoPersonally I think bosses like it because they don't have to pay their part of payroll taxes on it. Employees like it because they don't have to pay income tax on it. So, it's a tax scam at best. Instead, as a few (and you) have said, just pay them right to begin with. Tax shouldn't feel like gouging if you're getting paid appropriately anyway. Another way to look at it: Why force these people to cheat on taxes while letting the rich not pay taxes at all?
- patrick451 4y agoThe tax argument certainly made sense when most people payed cash, but when it all goes through credit cards, doesn't that force reporting?
- fortran77 4y agoThis is dishonest flame bait. Nobody is being "forced" to cheat on taxes and the majority of "rich" people, save for smugglers and organized criminals, don't have any income that the Government doesn't know about.