No More “Healthy Tax” in New Jersey!

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The state legislature passed a budget yesterday that does away with the “healthy tax” that was ridiculously instituted last year in New Jersey. This tax imposed a monthly 7% surcharge on the cost of gym memberships. Some people thought that we should all shut up and be quiet about it because of various theoretical explanations on the need to tax all expenditures equally.

Bullshit on that!

America’s health care system is overburden by people who are unhealthy because of their lifestyles. How can someone sleep at night when they openly and freely choose to tax the method by which people can free themselves from this sedentary lifestyle? Maybe getting into that car crash knocked some sense in Governor Corzine because he was all for this tax last year at this time.

Rolling back this tax is a good thing and I think New Jerseyans will be very happy to have this “healthy tax” finally taken off of the books and put to rest where it belongs.

Now let’s start working on restoring that 6% sales tax… :)

This entry was posted on Friday, June 22nd, 2007 at 9:47 am and is filed under Gym Stories, Money, Jobs, & Finances, The State of New Jersey. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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