“If I gave my customers a gift it would be an illegal bribe and I could go to jail. My customers are government.”

That’s a flawed analogy. The server is not a customer.

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.

I was replying specifically to

"People's freedom to give other people money on their own volition as a personal gift will not be infringed"

There's many situations in life where personal gifts are inappropriate, unwelcome, or illegal. I just gave an example.

You could also make the same argument to defend the "casting couch," yet we seem to have moved past that being defendable.

I totally agree with you. I was referring to the analogy. The context of your analogy wasn’t clear.