$-$An individual is asked to read the information below and answers questions $($A through C$).$

Employment Law and Tipped Workers: The Issue: Many people have friends and relatives born and raised outside of the United States who find the tipping culture in the United States baffling. Someone had to explain to relatives numerous times that tipping here is "optional" in name only, and that leaving a $20\%$ tip on meals eaten at "sit$-$down" restaurants is the cultural norm, unless the service was terrible. Just last week Nora, who was raised in Ireland and now lives in Canada, was shocked when was told that most servers in Massachusetts only get paid $$6\mathrm{.}75$ per hour by their employers and earn the majority of their salaries through tips. Consequently, not leaving a tip results in the server getting paid less than the minimum wage of $$15\mathrm{.}00$ per hour. What makes the problem worse, was explained to Nora, is that at most restaurants, all of the tips are pooled together, and waitstaff have to "tip out" a portion of their tips to bussers and bartenders. Nora pointed out that the system we have in the U$.$S$.$A$.$ is flawed, and she felt it was unfair for customers to essentially step in and pay the base salary of the servers on behalf of their employers. Plus, the person told to Nora that they agreed with her in theory but that until the system changes, it's not fair for people to go out to eat without factoring in the cost of compensating their servers, especially since customers can always eat at more casual places that don't have a waitstaff. $($Technically$,$ labor laws in many states require restaurant owners to pay the difference between the actual wages earned per hour by waitstaff and the minimum wage, ensuring that all servers earn at least the minimum wage. However, laws are inconsistent, and servers allege that owners do not comply with these laws.$)$ Proposed Changes: The following articles summary: Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court rejected a challenge to a proposed ballot question increasing minimum wage for tip$-$dependent workers and allowing tip pooling among both tipped and nontipped employees, stating the question's eligibility for the November election. The Massachusetts Restaurant Association and others challenged the inclusion of increasing the minimum wage for tipped workers and allowing businesses to divide tips in a single question, arguing that the state constitution requires initiative petitions to contain related or mutually dependent subjects. The state law sets a minimum wage of $$15,$ but a separate law allows employers to pay tipped employees $$6\mathrm{.}75$ an hour, using customer tips to cover the remaining $$8\mathrm{.}25.$ The ballot question proposes a gradual increase in hourly wage for tipped employees starting Jan. $1,2025,$ ending Jan. $1,2029.$ The proposed law allows tip pooling among tipped and nontipped employees, allowing employers to distribute tips among all employees, but opponents argue it would harm small and independent Massachusetts restaurants. Overall the article explains, changes are on the horizon here in Massachusetts. The SJC has authorized a ballot question, also known as a ballot measure that will eventually require restaurant owners to pay servers and other tipped employees at least minimum wage. This new law would contain the following language: This proposed law would gradually increase the minimum hourly wage an employer must pay a tipped worker, over the course of five years, on the following schedule:

To $64\%$ of the state minimum wage on January $1,2025$;

To $73\%$ of the state minimum wage on January $1,2026$;

To $82\%$ of the state minimum wage on January $1,2027$;

To $91\%$ of the state minimum wage on January $1,2028$; and

To $100\%$ of the state minimum wage on January $1,2029.$

The proposed law would require employers to continue to pay tipped workers the difference between the state minimum wage and the total amount a tipped worker receives in hourly wages plus tips through the end of $2028.$ The proposed law would also permit employers to calculate this difference over the entire weekly or bi$-$weekly payroll period.

The requirement to pay this difference would cease when the required hourly wage for tipped workers would become $100\%$ of the state minimum wage on January $1,2029.$

Under the proposed law, if an employer pays its workers an hourly wage that is at least the state minimum wage, the employer would be permitted to administer a $$tip pool$$ that combines all the tips given by customers to tipped workers and distributes them among all the workers, including non$-$tipped workers.

$-$Please answer the following questions thoroughly and succinctly based on all the information provided above:

A$.$ If this question shows up on the next ballot here in Massachusetts, would the individual be in favor of this new law or not?

B$.$ Why or why not?

C$.$ Whether the individual would vote yes or no on this ballot question, what changes would the individual make to the language of the proposed law listed above?