The Happy Hospitalist: “There should be a tiered Medicare tax while you are working. Double if you smoke. And your premiums at age 65 should be quadrupled if you smoke.
They should be cut in 1/2 if you don’t smoke, you exercise, and you are not considered obese by all objective standards.”
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Perhaps we could start a little more modestly than “I’m so much smarter than you” forms of paternalistic central planning?
Gym memberships are not tax deductible. Indeed, many states subject gym fees to their sales tax.
Start there, proceed to scrapping the “use it or lose it” rule for flexible spending accounts, and then maybe people like HH have standing to lecture us on why their ideas are just so brilliant.
Don’t show me your M.D. diploma if you can’t first convince me that you graduated kindergarten.
I’ve got an idea. How about you let me opt out of paying Medicare taxes if I promise to never use the service?
That’s probably too, how shall I put it, Free for our country these days. All the worse for our future.
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