Ban Tipping!

Thank you for your points, Pro. I will now do my best to refute them, and then respond with points of my own.Refute 1 - ParadoxMany 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.Refute 2 - Fault the faulted, not the systemSaying that tipping should be banned because some waiters received more than others is based on no premise. This would allow for genuinely worse servers to take away money earned from the servers who actually worked hard to earn their tip (not just the ones who "rushed" the customer). The individual faults of servers are the faults of the servers themselves do not apply to the entire tipping system and those who can make advantage of it properly. Refute 3 - Remove the Federal Tip CreditI agree that tipping has become subsidized, but disagree on the method of solving the problem. This issue could be solved just as easily by rather, paying the waiters and waitresses the minimum wage like everybody else, and then add on the individual bonuses that they earned as courtesies of the customer. The issue here is the federal tip credit, not tipping itself.Now, I will move on to my argument:In Defense of Tipping- My argument here will largely revolve around the civil liberty of the customer to give a tip, the wait staff to accept the tip, and of the business to allow the tip. - Tips can be, and if they cannot, then should be, interpreted as separate sums of money transferred from customer to staff as a show of gratitude for their kindness. Whether this is effective or not (which I believe it is), a customer is allowed to do as they please. And if someone wishes to reward a presumably in need wait staff for treating them kindly through monetary funds, then that is their constitutional right to do so.- A ban on tipping is not legislatively plausible. The amount of funds it would take to forcibly change the system, and the amount of funds necessary to insure that restaurants are actually obeying by the new ban would end up beating the entire point of the reform.- Tipping has the potential to motivate staff to act properly. Most staff will realize, under a tipping system, that if they are fundamentally rude to a customer, or ignorant of them, that they will not receive a good tip, which composes an extra profit for them. However, if they are certain that they will receive a pay equivalent to someone who did truly work for it regardless of their performance, they will have no reason to work as hard. Example of above, directly from source: "Jay Porter, the California restaurateur, generated a lot of feedback when he wrote in favor of tipless restaurants last year, claiming, among other things, that “the quality of our service improved” after tipping went away. A local critic disagreed, pointing out that Porter’s restaurant failed and closed in 2013, partly because of “quirky, poorly trained service staff [who] waited tables in an off-the-cuff style that appealed to few patrons, according to reviews.”I await your rebuttal! :) Good luck!