[tophat9000]

are usually paid less than minimum wage, and that tips provide the margin of survival (to use leftist terminology) for them. To stiff a tip is to relegate someone to below minimum wage.

Not only that the IRS operates on an "assumed" tip and deduct from there paycheck on that assumption

[doodad]

Yes, I have had to pay extra to my employer to cover the assumed taxes when things were slow. A paycheck for 0 or less than a dollar was the norm.