My read on this proposal is that politicians are proposing a low-effort fix because they don’t want to put in the work to fix the underlying problem creating abuse; it leaves in place a system that forces workers to depend on tips for survival instead of enforcing a living minimum wage (or even the current legal minimum wage) for all workers.
That’s why both Republican and Democratic politicians have championed the idea: it doesn’t require any of them to address the root problem.
