Service workers should be paid a fair wage by their employer. Tipping just encourages poor labor practices by keeping minimum wage workers from banding together and demanding pay increases or benefits. As a consumer, I should not be expected by society to supplement an establishment's labor costs. States in which tipped workers are paid below minimum wage should change their laws.

Customary tipping is for the birds. It should already be built in to the price of the product that you're buying. Why should I have to pay a bartender $1 to pull a beer out of a cooler and hand it to me. It's ridiculous.