Please, Arachnes, let's not have a discussion on the merits and faults of
the American tax structure and health services. It's not a simple issue and
it gets people worked up for no good purpose. Helene, I'd appreciate it if
you tone down your language a little.
Thanks,
Avital
Moderator
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Hello, Devon,
Well, I think your tax structure stinks! You don't tax people "as if". I
can't believe that the nation that prides itself on being more democratic
than anyone else has come up sith such ideas!!! (I don't think much of
your health services, either) In both cases, the people who work t
Helene,
your comparison of waiters/resses and library staff made me think of
something that happened to my mother. The dustbin men knocked on the door
not long before Christmas, asking for a Christmas bonus - suggesting that if
they did not get one they wouldn't collect the rubbish.
At the time
In a message dated 6/3/2004 4:01:13 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think there is a whole education programme that needs to be undertaken
there by nations who tip! You pay people decent wages, you don't rely on
them begging, because that's what it is, really.
I'm not the big
Weronika werote:
>Besides, in restaurants I'd really much rather being able to tip the
cook, whose work quality I
>care about, than the waiter...
This made me laugh! My son, who is studying to be a chef, feels the same
way. He would agree that the tip should go to the chef. As he puts it,
"how mu
Weronika werote:
>...Similar problem with tips - if you're *supposed* to give a 15% tip to
>all sorts of people (and I just keep learning additions to the list of
>tipped workers - I never tipped pizza delivery guys until someone told
>me I should a couple of months ago), then why can't they just p
