Tax breaks based on physical fitness
Posted by 9percentbattery@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 21 comments
Scoring will be based on overall health and fitness. Factors that would influence the scoring system due to their impact on your ability/free time to exercise include: age, hours worked per week, number of children, current health conditions and disabilities.
The healthier you are, the bigger the tax break. Health IMPROVEMENTS will also grant you tax breaks. For example: if you weigh 300 lbs and lose 80 lbs, this will result in a tax cut. Quit smoking? Tax cut.
You will not be taxed more for being unhealthy
XROOR@reddit
The number of audits will skyrocket as most gain the weight back. This tax year’s deduction, and the subsequent weight gain for the next year’s taxes, will cause a 1099 to be issued
erisod@reddit
"you will not be taxed more for being unhealthy"? How so if the unhealthy would pay higher taxes in this system?
wingspantt@reddit
Why is it people feel the need to say why an idea on /r/crazyideas is crazy? Isn't that the point?
righteouspower@reddit
Disablist concept tbh
wildmaiden@reddit
And yet unhealthy people will end up paying more taxes, so what's the difference?
Being healthy has its own benefits, you feel better every day and you get to spend more time on Earth with your loved ones, and have fewer medical expenses. If those benefits aren't convincing already, a tax break isn't going to make any difference.
Let people live their lives and make their own choices and set their own priorities, and don't try to manipulate them based on yours.
Forte69@reddit
Existing sugar/junk food/alcohol/cigarette taxes are sort of the same thru r
GummiBerry_Juice@reddit
If health care in the US were nationalized, this could be a thing.
scarr3g@reddit
Easily corrupted by those in power to ensure that they themselves are the ones that most fit the model, especially when you include all the factors you did, OP.
Remember, there is currently a state that changed the rules so that their schools had to, and could only, buy bibles... That are being sold a certain candidate that cannot mention due to the sub rules.. , by saying they had to bibles, and then making the regulations of what bibles are allowed to be bought, narrowly ONLY include the "insert candidate here" bibles. (specifically stating it needed parts of the constitution in it.... Something that has nothing to do with the Bible.)
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xombiemaster@reddit
Eugenics using the tax code? On My Reddit???
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Porkenstein@reddit
sugar taxes and food regulations are a much more straightforward way of achieving the same thing, with a proven track record. But your proposal sounds like something that might not piss off the sugar industry as much.
sonic192@reddit
Smoking is already expensive in most of Europe. Quitting is like releasing a new revenue stream!
My brother used to have private health insurance which unlocked rewards based on activity. He got a free PS4 out of it as I recall…
HardLithobrake@reddit
The supplement and weight loss pill industry would profit immensely and I suspect few would actually put in the time and effort to be healthier.
Fireproofspider@reddit
Who cares. It's the results that count.
Antinomial@reddit
why not just subsidize gyms?
and smoking cessation programs (many countries already do that). Wait are you in the U.S.? If so, let's start with having any kind of national health insurance
dlpfc123@reddit
My old health insurance had a program where you could do healthy activities to earn points and when you reached a certain threshold you would get money deposited into your HSA. Quitting smoking gave you the most points, but you could also get points for step counts and watching health videos etc.
It seemed like a good idea until I read the fine print and realized that it was just a way for my company to avoid paying the full HSA deposit they advertised, since you had to get all the points to qualify for all of the money. So we would all just cheat and say we did the activities.
OliveOcelot@reddit
Tax the disabled, got it.
NineSwords@reddit
I don't know about tax breaks but your health insurance premium should go down the healthier you are.