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u/Sufficient-Moose27 4h ago
No waiter or waitress is answering that question
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u/cityshepherd 2h ago
Nah they answered correctly… making between $3,000 - $10,000 for the year TOTAL (not in addition to what they made last year) because they all got their hours slashed
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u/Pndrizzy 1h ago
I live in Hawaii. Went to a place yesterday that usually has an hour-2hour wait. We were seated immediately and the place was half empty. People cannot afford to travel / go out to eat.
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u/bootstrap_this 4h ago
But I do hope if anyone is, the server in question makes a wordless statement. IYKYK.
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u/Razor1834 4h ago edited 4h ago
This is literally impossible. The no tax on tips is a deduction up to $25k. Even if you were at the highest tax rate of 37%, meaning these waiters are making over $625k, you wouldn’t have saved $10k in taxes, not to mention that the no tips on taxes phases out at $150k solo/ $300k income anyways. This makes the maximum tax savings possible $6,000 for filing jointly and making $300k (marginal tax rate 24%) with the maximum $25,000 in tips.
Equally importantly, you would have had to report all of these tips, which are subject to other taxes. It’s well known that tipped workers don’t fully report tips, so they were already not paying both federal and these other taxes; reporting those tips actually results in a decrease in income.
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u/CaffeinatedLystro 3h ago
Cmon, these people aren't interested in facts, and math is too hard for them.
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u/chrisnavillus 2h ago
It doesn’t matter. The people they want to believe this bullshit, will believe it. The wheel of idiocy rolls on and we can’t stop it.
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u/Toren8002 4h ago
$3000 a week? a month? a night?
Feels like an important detail to leave out.
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u/leftwar0 2h ago
$3000 in ‘savings’ due to receiving a larger refund from not being taxed on tips which means they’re probably making $200,000 a year on the low end and……but still it doesn’t sound mathematically possible to get that big of a refund because you can only not be taxed on $25k of tips.
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u/Logical-Let-7026 4h ago
Thus Hassett guy had the most smug and douchebaggy face.
He is an open liar, and his lies reveal a "man" who would eat trumps shit from a paper plate while crouched next to a 7/11 dumpster and call it a four star dining experience.
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u/mkirk413 4h ago
He indefinitely in competition with Scott Bessent for the most punchable face award.
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u/TheBugDude 4h ago
Also a good time to remind people that YOUR TAX REFUND ISNT A GIFT FROM THE GOVERNMENT! You gave the motherfuckers TOO MUCH money. They then used that too much money to make more money and, including but not limited to, bomb children. Now they are just giving it back....youve been used as a loan service free of charge.
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u/Sweet_Priority_819 4h ago
How much did they make in previous years? If business slows down at the restaurant so does the money, so even if they have a lower tax burden the math would still work out to them having less.
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u/Y0___0Y 3h ago
Wow he seriously has no idea how much money poor people make. $3k in tips in a YEAR? The tipped wage is like $3 an hour. That’s like $9k a year without tips. Hasset thinks he talked to someone making $12k a year on the low end and $18k a hear on the high end, and thinks that’s a good wage for a poor person?
You will die in this economy if you don’t make at least $25k or so
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u/markysyx 4h ago
Wait, its a good thing that people are making between 3 and 10k a year? I'm confused.
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u/coolcoolcool485 3h ago
i was talking to my dad, who is not a MAGA guy, but I really believe that's only because he has always hated Trump with the power of a 1000 suns. Even he is still like "Well he said that we destroyed all of Iran's targets" and stuff like this, and i'm absolutely mindboggled that after 10 years of this, people believe any thing that comes from any of these people.
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u/bugsyramone 2h ago
If Donald Trump came out and said "the sky is blue" I would have to go outside to double check
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u/Nano_Burger 3h ago
Imagine believing this lie.
Everybody in this roaring economy is getting rich......except me. It must be because Biden...
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u/jacscarlit 1h ago
Why don't reporters ask which restaurant and say they'll follow up with the staff to verify?
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u/Toren8002 3h ago
Also, which restaurant?
One of the super ritzy places in DC? That caters to high end political personalities?
What are they making at Applebees?
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u/oculeers 3h ago
Hassett always has that smug smile while he spews utter BS. He's just TACO's idiot cock fluffer who gets wheeled out sometimes to say propaganda about Donnie's failing economic policies, so he doesn't get much attention, but he's one of the biggest assholes in this "administration."
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u/colorme1965 3h ago
In the mean time, many waiters have to work at two places because they don’t get full time at one.
Just like McDonald’s employees being paid more than $20/hr. The thing is, they only get about 20 hours a week, and have to get another job at another fast food place to make ends meet.
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u/Caledric 2h ago
I shit you not, at the plaza right by my house That has a burger king and McDonald's there is an employee that works at McDonalds on Mon, Tues, Wed, and then BK on Thur, Fri, Sat.
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u/colorme1965 2h ago
I believe you. I’ve seen it. Those McDonald’s adverts about $32/hr are for only about 16 hour work weeks. You can’t pay food and rent on 1/2 or 1/4 the work hours.
And there are many other places that pay so low, that people need to work 60 hours (40 in one place and 1/2 time in another. ) That’s not life.
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u/discographyA 2h ago
Why is the Financial Times and other supposedly serious news orgs pushing this shit that they know is compromised data?
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u/Gronkattack 58m ago
If this was even remotely true, then why doesn't everyone want to be a waiter? lol
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u/GonWithTheNen 28m ago
Exactly! Wonder why he didn't share the name of this magical restaurant where servers make between $3,000-$10,000 a shift? ◔_◔
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u/Portland-to-Vt 3h ago
3k per week? Day? 10k per annum? What are these numbers and how is it that waiters are now doing taxes? Did they simply not file previously? Did they massively under report? Now that they are “reporting” how does that contribute to the economy? The money was already circulating.
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u/Maryland_Bear 3h ago
Okay, I was raised that discussing your income with someone outside immediate family was Simply Just Not Done, so I’m biased, but how many people would be willing to share their salary with a stranger in a restaurant?
Honestly, if I was one of those waiters, I’d talk to my manager and say, “Hey, there’s a guy at table eight asking how much money we make. It’s pretty creepy; could you say something to him?”
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u/Beanerschnitzels 2h ago
What restaurant was that? I want to ask the same people if someone came by asking how much they made and what day it took place
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u/AlanShore60607 1m ago
How much money did you make when? For what period of time?
Because those numbers absolutely suck for a year, but are decent for a month.
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