00:01Democrats, they genuinely hate you, and I don't know of any other way.
00:08It's disgraceful. People live off of tips, so for her to do that is just, it's disheartening, it's upsetting.
00:22I'm Zoe, I work at the Embassy Diner for two years.
00:25It's very disappointing. I was looking forward to that when the president was running, so it's a little disappointing.
00:33It's all my livelihood. Really, we live off of tips, so getting tax on them and losing money is definitely
00:38a big hit, and it makes living a little bit more difficult.
00:42And now knowing that it can't happen in New York is a little frustrating.
00:46Frustrated? It's like losing money, so it's hard, especially when everything's so expensive in life right now, and that's my
00:53livelihood.
00:54That's how I eat, that's how I feed myself and my family, so maybe a couple hundred, close to like
01:00a thousand possibly, depending on the hours put in also.
01:03My mom, my mother's been a waitress for 30-something years, and she took care of five kids waitressing, so
01:09now knowing, you know, if we were to go back and we were younger again and she was taking the,
01:14leaving the taxes on tips,
01:16it would have really affected mine and my siblings' lives growing up, so it's very upsetting.
01:21We've been in the restaurant business our whole life, so this is just what we know as diners.
01:24My father owns diners, my mom's parents own diners. It's just, this is our family's business.
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