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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]why is it my job to pay the waitor[/quote]

Because that is the default for how our wage laws are crafted.  If it were not for gratuity, wait staff would be covered under the Dept of Labor's Fair Labor Standards Act (TLSA) and would be required to be paid minimum wage. Minimum wage is $7.25.  Wait staff are often paid as little as $5/hr and expected to make up the difference for their labor in gratuities.  If this didn't happen, then minimum wage would be enforced and the prices for restaurants would rise 150+% higher than they currently are to appropriately compensate the wait staff[/quote]
Are you forgetting this is america?
Our onions are picked by less than minimum wage illegal farm workers. Walmart uses contracting companies as cleaning staff and they are below min wage workers. Amusement parks and cruise ships do not really pay a real wage,
You can work as a coal miner and damage your health permanently as a curtesy to your employer and get paid a pittance.
Oh, you eat chocolate, the cocoa beans were harvested by children in africa working iin the sun, your clothing is sowed by. No-money-earning workers in a far-off country, brothels have child workers etc etc
Slavery is not a new concept

I suggest everyone get a minimum wage, and am happy to give up eating in restaurants to do so. Only ones crying will be the big corprations with their lost profits. Mitt romney will never allow them to suffer[/quote]

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