Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

Religion has a place in people's hearts, advising them about how to act. It has no place on the statute books, ordering other people to act as the religious people decree. Religion is internal, and should never be external.

This. Believe in whatever you want but don't shove it into people's faces.The rules of your belief are of NO interest to me.

I don't believe anyone "forgot". Memory can be selective. They can ignore the separation of church and state because they want to. It's also a power play by churches (all of them) to gain authority over their congregations.

They have control of all three branches of government, and a Supreme Court that is entirely willing to rule the constitution itself unconstitutional if it advances their goals. It is a dictatorship. It just hasn't really kicked in yet.

I'm not sure that "having health insurance" will adequately protect a person from (American) medical-expense related bankruptcy.

Here it's even mandatory to have one. But at least then you won't still get a big bill anyway

As an outsider looking in, it seems that *with* health insurance, a simple illness could leave you bankrupt. I feel like that is the point that is being made - that US health insurance, and its healthcare system in general, is nothing less than extortionate.

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That you’ll never have to pay.

Again, only applies to the poor. Sadly

If there had been proper alternatives in preventing getting pregnant, I would say that abortion could be reduced to only necessary situations, like when the pill or other things didn't work, when the pill is affordable, when women aren't raped, or in medical danger from the pregnancy, etc, etc. In that case abortions could be brought back to the minimum. However, all the safeguards preventing a pregnancy are either not affordable or just not available to many women, which is flabbergasting and imo criminal.

PREACH!

There are some very nice third world countries where the police don't kneel on the throats of minority suspects as a standard practice.

All slogans and group shouts are carefully chosen to sound simple but allow extensive interpretation later. Simple, so the crowd can remember the words - vague, so the politicians can say "I only did what we agreed" later. If they bother to explain at all; if you're explaining, you're losing.

I hate that phrase make America great again. Uh, when exactly was it great? Right up until 1492. Since then we have done some great things but overall I would say, not great. Saying make it great again means there is some standard in the past that is the metric for what great means. I would argue we need to make American something it has never been, something new. We should stop trying to go back to something. That just blocks actual progress. We gotta be more involved oir how we shape our country. All voices and perspectives are needed. We can be a different way. With an equitable distribution of resources assets and capacity.

But the public shouldn’t HAVE to!!! How some people who don’t tip are treated is appalling! The whole tipping culture is wrong on every level. I’m from the UK and I tip when I get good service, but it’s NEVER expected and never judged (to our face at least)

Yes. Until we manage to straighten this inequitable s**t out, please do NOT penalize and screw over the poor servers trying to pay rent and bills on their tiny paychecks plus tips. Give them the tips they deserve, at a minimum 15%, more if they were really great at their job. Take your protest to the restaurant industry as a while, as well as any legislators who are on their payroll——sorry, who are aiding and abetting the rampant wage theft of the restaurant industry——sorry, who have the power and influence to enact changes that help employees instead of employers. But do NOT hurt those trying to make a living in a tipped job. Please.

And what a great number of people don't know, is that service people have to declare taxes on those tips. So first you're underpaid, you then have to depend on the charity of others to make your wages however small they are, then the government TAXES you on those charity wages. I love my country, but it's so f****d up.

People are generally unaware, here and overseas, that our already appallingly low minimum wage is even lower (as you correctly say, $2 an hour) for those the IRS deems “tippable positions”, like wait staff. So yes, they don’t earn a living wage and the IRS has deemed you responsible for helping with that on a voluntary basis.

The government allows that amount. It's the same amount allowed for physically or mentally disabled workers. Restaurant help needs to stand up for themselves, because we are all dealing with the high cost of living. The owner wants a restaurant. The owner should pay his workers.

Nope. That won't change it. It only facilitates it more.

But that's the point - workers should be paid a decent wage.

No, tipping should not be mandatory. The restaurants need to start paying their servers more. I will only tip if the service is good. A tip should be a bonus for exceptional customer service.

I'm from Alaska, and it was an absolute shock to find out other states allow BELOW minimum wage, because they can use tips to make the rest up and I was HORRIFIED and still can figure out how it's legal anywhere.

There were days I lost money because I was required to dry clean and starch my uniform daily (on my dime).

MIchigan tipped wage is north of $5/hr. Still ridiculously low, but many servers are pushing back on a new proposal to work for Michigan minimum. No doubt the restaurant owners are influencing this view. To be fair, eateries in C and N Michigan (outside the cities) see customers fall off in winter, one of the drawbacks to a tourism economy.

If everyone in South Carolina just stopped tipping today, servers would be paid the same hourly wage all other MW workers in the state as has been required under Federal law since 1966. But that MW is $7.25 per hour. Less than $250 per week take home. THAT's what needs to change. For ALL MW workers!