The industry absolutely dodges taxes on tips. It's well known that you need to report 8% of your sales to avoid an audit, so that's what you report. As a server I'd make 15 - 18%. So I'm paying taxes on only half my tips, which make up the majority of my income.
curiousaur
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Tips are a weird issue here. You can see why employees in this industry want to keep them, but also why it's problematic when talking about liveable wages.
I worked for tips for years. Bartending and serving from my first job at 16, all through my 20s. Let me give an example of when this became an issue.
I'm waiting tables at a restaurant. Make minimum wage in CA which is like $10 I think? Doesn't matter most of my income is tips. I'm realisticly making closer to $30 - 40 with tips. We share some with bussers / dishwashers because they support us. Kitchen staff is making like 25 an hour. More than twice our wage but still less than us accounting for tips. Kitchen wants a raise, restaurant makes us share tips with kitchen too to make it "fair". We're upset.
New CA minimum wage passes. $15 minimum wage, includes tip protection stating you cannot oblige servers to share tips. Servers got a raise twice, our hourly wage went up from 10 to 15 and we stopped sharing tips with the kitchen. Huge boon. Kitchen staff now making less, just the $25 no shared tips. Kitchen staff decries bullshit, demands a raise, restaurant says no way I can give you a raise now that I have to pay all the servers, bussers, and bartenders more.
Then you realize the serving staff / kitchen staff, at least in CA, is almost perfectly split racially. Mexicans, Latinx, and Black folks in the kitchen, white folks serving and bartending. It's already an issue of fairness, just adding the additional racial observation which makes it downright problematic.
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I wish they kept making these, they all hit so fucking hard.
The main issue is that if Pluto is a planet, there's like 30 or so others that have to be also, for consistency.
Imagine Trump's reversal when the abortion drug turns out to cure his Alzheimer's.
There is no possible fix.
Have you seen the performance and efficiency of these arm chip? The performance and battery life of Apple's chips compared to the Intel chips before then? Intel should be absolutely embarrassed.
What do you want us to do? Buy it again?
Yeah same. I've brought burritos, burgers, beers.
My favorite was during the opening scene of the Great Gatsby when they're glamorizing all the champagne flowing at these elegant parties, I popped my bottle of champagne I brought in for my girlfriend and I to share and this other guy was like "aw fuck you", in an envious tone.
Why would I cut them down? I bought the property because of them. 200 ft tall trees, some in rings around the mother stump. It's beautiful and fun.
You fuck one ghost...