Did tipped workers actually depend on the tips as their primary income in his time?
For waitresses/waiters, delivery people, and bar tenders, absolutely. Only during those times the normal tip for a waitress was 10%. Now food prices and inflation have gone up 4 fold, but for some reason tipped staff have shoehorned doubling up the tip percentage to closer to 20%.
Maybe not as much as today but yes. Tipped wages were added to the FSLA at 50% less than a "regular"l minimum wage in 1966. They were decoupled from raises of the regular minimum wage in a 1996 amendment signed by Clinton under an Republican majority congress (Newt Gingrich was speaker of the house 226R(+1I)-207D and Bob Dole was Senate majority leader(55R-45D). This was the same Republican congress that forced government shutdowns in 1995 and 1996.
https://www.epi.org/publication/waiting-for-change-tipped-minimum-wage/ Wiki for the congress
I think tips shouldn’t exist. Restaurants and everywhere else needs to just pay a real wage. Tipping the person that walks the plate of food over to me, while the person that made the food and the plate don’t get tipped is asinine. All the places asking for tips now is asinine. Not paying taxes on what is over 2/3 of your income would be asinine as well. They already don’t report a bunch as it is. Plus, how will not paying taxes on tips factor in to social security?
Instead of making tips tax free, make tips not legal.
No it wasnt
The combination of Reagan and Thatcher destroyed many lives.
