In Massachusetts and Arizona, voters will decide if a lower official wage for tipped workers should be phased out or made permanent.
Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris support eliminating federal taxes on tips. It might attract votes from tipped workers, who make up 2.5% of the American labor force. But what would it mean for tax policy?
After the Civil War, companies didn’t want to reach into their own pockets to pay recently freed enslaved people.
Gig platforms have long been ambivalent about encouraging tips that many workers depend on.
The House-passed Raise the Wage Act would phase out the $2.13 an hour federal minimum for tipped workers.
