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“No tax on tips” is an industry plant

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Re: “No tax on tips” is an industry plant

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Some interesting points: ~40% of tipped workers don't make enough to get taxed anyway, no tax on tips would actually advantage better paid workers like casino dealers who don't need the help. NToT is described as a campaign to distract from minimum wage increase initiatives.

Re: “No tax on tips” is an industry plant

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It's also a joke, because anyone who's worked a service job knows there is no tax on cash tips (wink!)

I have an honest question: what's the cash vs card tip ratio? 99.999% of the time I am not carrying cash and I don't see many (any?) people paying with cash ANYWHERE in the last 10+ years.

Re: “No tax on tips” is an industry plant

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Some interesting points: ~40% of tipped workers don't make enough to get taxed anyway, no tax on tips would actually advantage better paid workers like casino dealers who don't need the help. NToT is described as a campaign to distract from minimum wage increase initiatives.

https://jacobin.com/2025/07/restaurant-industry-tipped-submi...

https://jacobin.com/2020/10/tipped-restaurant-workers-waiter...

https://cepr.net/publications/customer-tips-are-providing-th...

Re: “No tax on tips” is an industry plant

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Some interesting points: ~40% of tipped workers don't make enough to get taxed anyway, no tax on tips would actually advantage better paid workers like casino dealers who don't need the help. NToT is described as a campaign to distract from minimum wage increase initiatives.

That’s a weird way to say a sizable majority of tipped workers do pay taxes and will benefit from this.
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