Why Does Tipping Still Exist? (Update)
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Hey there, it's Steven Dubner, and this is a bonus episode. It's an update of an episode we first published in 2019, and we're replaying it because The topic has been all over the news lately. The topic is Tipping President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act allows workers to deduct up to$25,000 of qualified tips from their federal tax returns. There are exceptions for some occupations, and there's a phase out for high earners.
But what about chipping itself? What kind of economic activity is that exactly? That's the question we asked in this episode, called Why Does Tipping Still Exist? We have updated facts and figures when necessary. As always, thanks for listening. Time for a riddle. Name something that many people say they dislike.
And yet they do it all the time. Something. that many people consider a tax? and others see as a form of altruism. Something that almost always happens in many circumstances, and yet
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