Reply #35: Sure, I'll comment on the rules including tips...

[hughee99]

As someone who worked for tips for many years, I wouldn't have been thrilled about it, but I also made a good bit more than the minimum wage because of tips. A person who works 8 hours for minimum wage will make the minimum wage * 8 and will have to declare all of it on their taxes. A person who works for tips, in almost any job on almost every day will make more than the minimum wage for an 8 hour shift and may or may not declare it on their taxes. Who needs the raise more?

Look, politically, this is a big win for us, and I'm not denying that I'm glad the bill was defeated, I'm just not reveling in the fact that minimum wage workers will have to wait even longer for relief. I'll wait to see if we get a "no strings" bill next year. I imagine that even if we retake congress, and I think we will, we will not have such a majority that we won't have to make any deals.