re: Why should people who get paid with tips not pay taxes?

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Question is the title. I get why it made for a snappy campaign slogan, but what is a good non partisan justification for this policy?

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Taxes on peoples income is theft. Nobody should be paying taxes on their income.

I leave cash tip about 80% of the time just knowing that they probably won't claim it. I mean the money was already taxed once right (when i earned it).

Don't get me started on paying taxes on used cars when the original owner of the car already paid tax on it, yet every time the car is sold it has to be taxed again. What a racket.

Because they make like 3.15 an hour and that's taxed. A lot of these people are college age. I am fine with giving them a break and i am a fiscal conservative.

I suppose the tip represents a motivation to do a better job than those jobs that don't involve tips (like the bitch who sometimes delivers my mail).
I tip more for good service in restaurants. But then I remember going to a restaurant in San Antonio that was famous (and popular) for rude service.
Waiter: 'What do you want, moron?'
Me: 'The steak, you fat arse hole.'
Instead of table cloths they used yesterday's newspaper unfolded to cover your table.

Did they fix the no tax on tips so it applies to anything other than cash? Or did this end up staying neutered? I haven't checked the Senate bill yet but the house bill it was only on cash and only if you made under a certain amount

Obviously this is a great political move.
But, the problem with these exceptions is that they keep making the tax code more complicated and more expensive to administer.

We need a simpler tax code so we can abolish the IRS and make our economy more efficient.

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Why should people who get paid with tips not pay taxes?

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99% aren't reported anyway, so it doesn't really change anything.

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Because taxes are theft and any chance to frick over the government needs to be taken advantage of.

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It really is amazing how the country started because England was ripping off the colonies with taxes without representation.

Now we have high taxes on everything and our representatives rarely have the people’s best interest. They’re bought and paid for by lobbies.

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but what is a good non partisan justification for this policy?

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It's a gift to show appreciation. There's no contractual obligation for people to tip.

Another aspect of this is that in order to justify taxation on tips, one must assume any income -regardless of amount or source or income level of the worker- should be taxed.

Yet another argument is that as most tip-earners would be struggling to make it up to middle class, taxing tips can easily be seen as "a tax on the poor" (this is an especially good argument to make towards those who just bitched about Trump's "tax cuts for the rich").

Gifts shouldn’t be taxed unless they are exorbitant.