Fuck tips. If you work, you should be getting a living wage, not hoping you score a $100 tip to scrape through the month. Tips are a wage subsidy for corporations.
Yup. This is slapping on a bandaid for a very select few. The real problem is wages and cost of living.
This is as little as possible, and it will be used in lieu of an actual minimum wage increase. Democrats will coast on it for as long as they can before they do as little as possible again in another 15 years.
B b but Dems bad! That didn’t take long from you.
If you want them to do more, then you have to vote and give them consistent victories in all 3 houses.
My gut says that not taxing “tips” is only going to embolden companies looking to move line item payouts, and force more people to work for minimum wage.
You’ll see a massive wave of previously non-tip jobs turn into tipped jobs, which only benefits the employer.
I’ll save you a click because the author can’t seem to get to the point quickly enough:
“Tipped workers don’t need a tax cut. They need a raise.”
Here’s my vision:
- Raise minimum wage. We want food and housing. This shit shouldn’t be impossible to get
- Implement universal basic income. Again. WE WANT FOOD AND HOUSING, JESUS CHRIST
- Implement a wealth tax. Great hordes of wealth being untaxed while income is just reinforces generational poverty
- Eliminate income tax now that wealth tax is covering everything. It disproportionately punishes workers versus the ultra-wealthy who don’t get paid in money. Meanwhile, who’s getting taxed is just not using the money they got taxed to pay for… And say it with me, kids, food and housing
The first three are great, the fourth idea is insane. Why shouldn’t people pay into their government? If you’re poor, like the first $25k, fine let that be tax free, but why not keep the money in the government coffers and provide single payer healthcare, free college tuition, student debt forgiveness, municipal broadband? Our taxes are not high compared to other western nations.
All wealth is created by workers… Any wealth used for the good of all society is coming from the workers same as all profit does. No need to add the middleman… Just charge it all to the corporations… First our work pays for society, only what’s left over after should be considered profit
I’m not saying don’t tax me. I’m saying don’t tax me based on income. Tax me based on accumulated worth. Its possible to be highly paid but to have started in such a back foot that you’re still in the hole. Meanwhile folks like that are paying more into society than anyone else through sales tax because they need to do things like furnish homes they bought
But if you tax based on wealth, doesn’t that make home ownership less possible? Property taxes aren’t going away, but now a wealth tax is going to hit property owners? Sales tax is extremely regressive. Income tax is one of the few ways to do progressive taxing.
Eliminate all taxes on individuals, charge the whole bill for a functioning society to the corporations (preferably at the same ratio as the corporations make profit, ie if a company makes 10% of all the profit that quarter they pay 10% of the bill)… We the people democratically decide what all is included in a functioning society
Yeah. Raise the fucking federal minimum wage. Mandate that it keep pace with inflation.
