Taxing Breathing

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2010/03/taxing-breathing

A reader sent in a link to a New York Times article from over the weekend that reports on how state governments are expanding taxes to a variety of hitherto untaxed services -- dry cleaning, jugglers, funerals, landscaping. "They should tax breathing," was the reader's dry suggestion. Some would argue that ObamaCare's requirement that Americans pay for health insurance or pay a penalty is exactly that -- a tax on breathing. And by the time the individual mandate kicks in, the death tax is also scheduled to return, so you get taxed whether you breath or you don't.

by Ira Stoll  |  Mar 29, 2010 at 10:20 am Related Topics:  Health Care, Taxes receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list