Are You a Large Tipper? #247 By Hank Silverberg The election is this Tuesday. I have written about it for the last several weeks and I'm pretty sure most people have already made up their minds who they will vote for or may have already voted early. So, this week I thought it was time to talk about a very debatable and controversial subject--tipping. A few months back my wife and I took a short trip down to Poplar Forest, Thomas Jefferson's vacation home in southeast Virginia. After touring the wonderfully restored mansion and learning all about Jefferson's use of slave labor to build it, we took a side trip to nearby downtown Lynchburg for dinner. We found a nice little restaurant with American cuisine. As we went over the menu the server approached us with her trainee and explained that in this restaurant, we did not have to leave a tip. She said the servers are paid higher wages ...