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Originally Posted by Skip
No income tax on tips (and no income tax on overtime) is unfair to both regular hourly and salary workers. Why should servers bring home income money that is tax free?
Skip
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I think the theory is that the servers are underpaid (although I have always heard that many servers do not report cash tips anyway).
And while some are underpaid, many are not. A friend of mine owns a nice restaurant and she said that some of her servers make a lot of money with tips.
As for overtime, many government workers and construction workers are well paid before overtime. However, I think that has income limits on it.
I don’t understand why most European countries can afford to pay their servers a decent wage so that tipping is not expected while Americans cannot do it. Restaurant prices in Europe don’t seem to that much higher than in America especially when the tip and sales tax is included in the price listed on the menu.