Not to even mention the trillions he stole from the social security fund and transferred to the general fund in order to hide the failure of “trickle down economics”.
Do you have any source material for this? I was having to explain how much of an utter failure trickle down economics was and was having some difficulty filtering through all the garbage to find any quality substantiation.
Love that they tax SS…
“Trickle down economics” is just a politically savvy way of saying “getting pissed on by rich people”.
In that sense, Reaganomics delivered on its promise 100%.
Did tipped workers actually depend on the tips as their primary income in his time?
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
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%.
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.
