Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
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Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
| Tue, 09-23-2003 - 10:36pm |
In the 70's and 80's women fought to get into the workforce (the whole Ms. magazine generation)...and then the tide turned in the late 1990's when more women started to stay home by choice. Now, it seems like being a SAHM is a status symbol....and superior to being a working mom.
Kat

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Second of all, doesn't matter if someone tips at 3% or at 20%, the tip is TAXABLE INCOME and subject to reporting to the IRS; and failure to report the tip to IRS sets the person up for huge fines and back tax nightmares.
Third of all, as the world's worst waitress ever, I tip EXTREMELY well, even for crappy service, on occasion, depending on circumstances, and *I* get furious at people who underreport their earnings, passing on a heavier tax burden to the rest of us.
And fourth, the tax law doesn't tax waitstaff on imagined earnings; they are taxed on REPORTED earnings, so it doesn't matter if they tipped at 3% or 25%; they only PAY taxes on what they report (even if they OWE taxes on much more that goes unreported).
Interesting double standard . . .
And while there may have once been a time when tips did not have to be claimed as taxable income, it happened prior to 1976, when I first started waiting tables.
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