It’s close to April 15 and the IRS makes the news again in a March 25 Review-Journal Business section story on tip compliance. Let me ask: When one of our hard-working cocktail servers brings you a drink and you put a dollar on her tray, why should she have to declare that gift — and, yes, it is a gift — as income on her tax return? Please explain, because I don’t understand.
I don’t see much difference in what seems to have happened from Jimmy Floyd simply handing his wife, Raquel Floyd, a taxpayer check for $1.5 million after the bid was rigged to favor her company.
We need to break out of the stupid pattern. We are turning people into idiots.
If you’re tired of walking past people in crisis and pretending it’s not your problem, speak up. Demand more from city, county and state officials.
Since corporate America has taken over the Strip, greed has come back to bite them.
