← Back to context Comment by ghiculescu 2 days ago So employees earn more, and restaurants spend less. And this is bad because? 3 comments ghiculescu Reply pnt12 2 days ago Well, the money doesn't appear with magic, so someone is paying: the government (forfeiting taxes) or the consumer (more pressure to tip).To me, the bad part is the tax reductions only appear in behavior I don't agree with: high overtime and tipping (when it's semi mandatory).I'm not American, but this is also showing up in my country. RobinL 2 days ago Because you're artificially favouring one specific industry, at a cost to all other industries.And because the implication of your argument is we should never tax anything because that's a benefit to both the consumer and the business fireflash38 2 days ago Aren't we already in a manufacturing hole and we're incentivizing more service industries over them?
pnt12 2 days ago Well, the money doesn't appear with magic, so someone is paying: the government (forfeiting taxes) or the consumer (more pressure to tip).To me, the bad part is the tax reductions only appear in behavior I don't agree with: high overtime and tipping (when it's semi mandatory).I'm not American, but this is also showing up in my country.
RobinL 2 days ago Because you're artificially favouring one specific industry, at a cost to all other industries.And because the implication of your argument is we should never tax anything because that's a benefit to both the consumer and the business
fireflash38 2 days ago Aren't we already in a manufacturing hole and we're incentivizing more service industries over them?
Well, the money doesn't appear with magic, so someone is paying: the government (forfeiting taxes) or the consumer (more pressure to tip).
To me, the bad part is the tax reductions only appear in behavior I don't agree with: high overtime and tipping (when it's semi mandatory).
I'm not American, but this is also showing up in my country.
Because you're artificially favouring one specific industry, at a cost to all other industries.
And because the implication of your argument is we should never tax anything because that's a benefit to both the consumer and the business
Aren't we already in a manufacturing hole and we're incentivizing more service industries over them?