That's impossible. People's freedom to give other people money on their own volition as a personal gift will not be infringed. We can argue about whether tipping is good or not, but you will not (realistically, it's a non-starter) ban my ability to give it.
Tried tipping a police officer lately? How about a border guard haha.
You absolutely can restrict it. An employer can forbid their employees from taking tips, there are plenty who do so already. There's all sorts of regulation around tipping, and under federal law, employers can require employees to participate in a tip pool or otherwise share their tips with other employees.
That means by extension that the state or federal governments can require employers forbid employees from taking tips. You're free to give anyone you want money in a personal capacity but in a professional capacity their ability to receive it can absolutely be curtailed by the government. There's lots of prior art here, especially around business conflict of interest. You can't tip a government employee for their service.
As a thought exercise, if you go to a restaurant today where tipping isn't permitted, you offer $10 to the server. They refuse, because their employer doesn't permit them to accept tips. What do you do? Force them to take it?
Conflict of interest rules apply the same way to governments (foreign and domestic) as they do to any other company you're considering doing business with. You can't give their representatives gifts either over a handful of dollars, if you've ever watched a compliance training video at work. I'm not using this as an analogy, just as prior art in the restriction of your ability to give arbitrary 'gifts' or 'expressions of gratitude for someone having done their job'. I mean, why can't I tip a police officer who came out really quickly to look into my home invasion? It's my money and I'm not paying them to do anything they shouldn't. I'm just grateful they did their job.
The point remains, you can give anyone gifts in a personal capacity, and there are restrictions in a professional capacity.
If you prohibit a tip line on checks and a tip entry on customer operated card machines, it becomes difficult to tip if you don't carry cash. If it's difficult to tip, I can't be expected to tip, and the prices need to be set appropriately, and I don't care if a few people tip.
If I gave my customers a gift it would be an illegal bribe and I could go to jail. My customers are government.
When I was a teenager I worked at a hospital. One of my coworkers was fired for accepting a $1 tip from a patient, we were not allowed to accept any money or gifts from patients or families.
The employee of a bank that approves your loan is not your customer, you are his/hers. Go get a credit card or a loan and try tipping the bank's employee. That's a certain way to get them fired.
Yeah, if it improves welfare of the wait staff, forcing the employer to pay a living wage. The practice is discriminatory, there's lots of data that shows that the distribution of the tips is highly un-equal. The state already permits things like pooling, so it has the right to restrict tipping entirely. Further, tipped employees are allowed to be paid an absolute pittance well below minimum wage, which doubles down on the impacts of the discriminatory distribution.
Could or should are different questions, but you're intentionally reducing the conversation to something much simpler than it really is.
"Dude" tipping IS complicated. It is the industry treating unfairly its employees and then asks for you to cough up the extra £€¥$ so they save more on salaries, taxes, and pension contributions.
If you don't just dismiss all the comments and have think about it then yes it is a big deal.
Kind of a rude reply. Aside from that, it's hard to read the parent post and come to the conclusion that the situation is simple, unless you're already an expert on the topic.
