The no tax on tips provision of Donald Trump’s budget cannot be the pro-labor gift that the president has made it out to be while the rest of the bill slashes health care and other social programs for lower-income people. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shed some light as to why that’s the case.
The idiots do not understand what any of this means. Let me repeat that. THEY DON’T FUCKING UNDERSTAND WHAT ANY OF THIS MEANS. A bill could use the plainest and simplest language spelling out how it’s going to double all other taxes, and these mouth breathing idiots would still celebrate the “no tax on tips” shit.
What’s getting me is how my overly conservative family is scorning tipped workers as a result of this (“hasn’t Big Daddy T made enough concessions to these people”). And its like “but he hasn’t. Not really.”
I juggled 2-3 part time restaurant jobs back in the 2009 - 2013 timeframe (total time per week was comparable to a full time job). Even as an only moderately successful male waiter, I was able to pull in ~$32,000 my first year and then evened out to ~$35,000 once I found my flow. That was a decade and a half ago in one of the most conservative corners of the US, and I would have still been paying taxes on my tips back then.
How much of that was tips?
The vast majority. I was in a state that allowed paying under minimum wage if you received tips.
Gonna keep the numbers to myself to help preserve anonymity, but some back of the napkin math says it was probably 70-90% (depending on how good of a day it was) of my “wages” came from tips.