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Donald Trump y Kamala Harris They have little in common but they agree on one thing: the two candidates for the White House They want to eliminate taxes on tips, a clearly electoral measure but of great consequences economic.
Among the voters that the two candidates hope to woo are those from Nevada, a key state for the November presidential elections.
The home state of the Vegas It has, in relation to the number of inhabitants, the largest number of waiters in the country, according to the Department of Labor.
The culture of tipping in USA is different from that of most countries in the world.
Customers are strongly encouraged to leave generous tips for a coffee or takeout meal.
In restaurants, pay 15% o 20% above the price in recognition of the service is the norm.
It is even legal for employers in some states to pay their employees $2.13 an hour, well below the federal minimum wage of 7.25, provided that the “tip” makes up the difference.
But “there is no particular reason why, across the board, people who work in the service sector should pay less taxes than a laborer or a nurse,” said Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. (CRFB, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget).
“This creates an equity problem: two people who do similar work and who the market estimates to be worth the same amount of money have different levels of different taxation”, he explained. And “that doesn’t make any sense.”
There are about four million tipped workers in the United States, about 2.5% of the total workforce, according to a recent estimate by the University of Michigan’s Budget Lab. Yale, This figure includes bartenders, waiters and hairdressers. According to this study, these workers generally have a lower weekly salary than the average.
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