Ban Tipping!

Con, I admire your refutation and argumentative skills, however I will take a stab at refuting them. :/ Refutations to Refutations: 1. My opponent's refutation: "Many people do tip the same regardless of service, and they have the right to do so. If servers usually make the same tip regardless of service, how could a waiter be tip-starved in the first place? This is a paradox in itself. As I will say below, the individual faults of waiters who make a bad judgement call and take more tables than necessary do not reflect on the entire system." I disagree with this. First of all, let's look at the definition of a paradox. A paradox is a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. (http://dictionary.reference.com...) But let's look at what the real paradox is here: tipping. Tipping is self-contradictory and absurd since allows racism (proved later in my arguments), decreases service quality, and is subsidizing restaurants. What was tipping's purpose? To award servers for good service, but it does not do this at all, and contradicts itself, thereby making it a paradox. And it does express a possible truth: that we should ban tipping. Secondly, I disagree with this because my opponent stated that many people do tip the same regardless of service. This is conceding my point, since the point was that it harms worker service. If many people do tip the same, as my opponent and I both agree on, then waiters and waitresses are not receiving awards and encouragement, but rather receiving meaningless money that does not promote good service. Also, at the end, they stated that a local critic disagreed with Porter; I believe this was expanding on this refutation. Sure, one local critic, one contradicting opinion. It's not a huge deal. If you want another example where the restaurant did not indeed close, look at Sushi Yasuda, a New York City Japanese restaurant that banned tipping. Because of this tipping ban, the restaurant raised the employee's wages to $15 an hour (tipped salary minimum wage is $2.31 an hour), so employees are making a steady pay and not dependent on tips. Also, service quality increased and customers were happier because the pressure of a tip was eliminated. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com...) So voters, through this refutation, I have proved that tipping is a paradox, and that banning tipping will be beneficial. 2. My opponent says this argument is based on no premise. I disagree. The premise this is based on is causing a wrongful imbalance in waiters and waitresses' salaries for no apparent reason. Also, my opponent states that "the individual faults of servers are the faults of the servers themselves and do not apply to the entire tipping system", but let's take a look at this. The individual faults of servers, meaning bad service, do not apply to the entire tipping system. But it does. It applies to the entire system because it shows how unjust and immoral tipping is. 3. In this refutation, my opponent concedes that tipping has subsidized restaurants, but disagrees that banning tipping is the correct method. He says that the solution is "paying the waiters and waitresses the minimum wage like everybody else, and then add on the individual bonuses as they earned as courtesies of the customer." Looks like this is banning tipping to me. If we ban tipping, we pay the waiters a baseline salary, like $15 an hour in Sushi Yasuda vs. a measly $2.31 an hour tipped wage. So, he is correct on that, we pay them a minimum wage, which we already do. Add on individual bonuses earned as courtesies of the customer, correct. Bonuses such as the satisfaction of good service, bonuses such as a smile on the customer's face, and bonuses such as the feeling of good karma when a person compliments you on your service, but cannot any longer leave you an immoral tip. Also, I believe I have proved well enough through my arguments and refutations, that banning tipping is indeed the solution. Refutations to Arguments: 1.My opponent's whole case revolves around how good tipping is, and how it is a reward for good service. But how is it a reward for good service if it harms the service? Also, my opponent has already agreed with me in his refutations that most people do not tip based on service, and tip their normal amounts no matter how good or bad the service is. So he himself even agrees with something that goes against his own arguments, and therefore contradicts himself heavily. 2.My opponent states that banning tipping what take funds, but what funds? If we pass a law saying tipping isn't needed anymore, there are no funds involved except the restaurant owners not ripping off their employees and paying them a decent salary. Main Arguments: I have a new argument that I would like to present, but before I would like to add additional evidence onto the already existing first argument. Argument 1: According to Michael Lynn and Michael J. Sturman from Cornell University, customers typically do not vary their tip based on services. They tip more or less the same every time. In turn, the waiters and waitresses realize that service quality isn't necessarily an important thing; however, what does make a difference in their pay is the number of tables they visit, thus decreasing service quality even further. And now, for my new argument. Argument 4: Tipping should be banned because it perpetuates racism, sexism, and other unjustifiable opinions. This is because people put in the their own personal biases into giving someone a tip. A server working at a Red Lobster restaurant in an affluent suburb of Nashville, Tennessee claims she was subjected to a racist jibe after customers allegedly left the words 'none ni**er' in the tip section of the check. (http://gawker.com...) Tori Christina Jenkins, who is 19, was in the middle of her shift at the seafood restaurant in Franklin and serving a couple of customers who racked up a $45 bill during their afternoon meal. When the time came to pay the check, Miss Jenkins, who is training to be a nurse, says she found the racist insult written on the couple's receipt. Secondly evidence-wise, http://www.huffingtonpost.com... states that a French waitress said that the tips she got depended on her choice of clothes. Also, according to http://www.psychologytoday.com..., women with bigger breasts were tipped substantially more. This impacts society because tipping is promoting the thought of racism, sexism, and other biases, something that the US is not okay with. People who are discriminated against are mistreated. The founders of America promised equality, so the US should follow this promise. Conclusion: Tipping should be banned because: 1. It is a paradox. 2. My opponent agrees with key elements that justify the ban. 3. My opponent lives in a fantasy land where tipping is all good, whereas in the real world, the bad outweighs the good of tipping. 4. A tipping ban will make scumbag restaurant owners rightfully increase well-deserving servers' wages. 5. Tipping harms the services of restaurant employers, which ultimately affects you. 6. Some people unjustly tip more than others not because of service quality, making unfair wages. 7. Tipping is subsidizing restaurants. 8. Tipping promotes racism, sexism, and biases. So, for the reasons I have stated, I believe that I have won this debate so far. I eagerly await Con's arguments.