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D.C. yoga devotees fight "yoga tax"
Clarification: The proposed tax is meant to get the city's sales tax to include services as well as goods. In addition to health clubs and yoga classes, dating services, chimney-cleaning services, dance lessons, detective services, and so on would be taxed.
By Michelle Boorstein
For many who practice yoga -- whether that means intense solo meditation or a sweaty, packed room with a house music beat -- it is a religion. And the language some yoga devotees are using to fight a new tax in the District sounds almost spiritual.
I don't know details of the proposed tax, which this write-in campaign says would tax D.C. gyms and yoga studios 6-8 percent. But the campaign to fight it says activities that improve people's health and make them "more balanced, grounded" shouldn't be made more expensive.
But where would you draw the line when defining activities that make you more "grounded"? Obviously our legal culture believes religious groups deserve certain tax exemptions. Does yoga??
Michelle Boorstein
| May 6, 2010; 3:25 PM ET | Category: God in Government Save & Share:
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There is a tax on junk food and soda...6.5%, if I remember correctly.
Posted by: jakemd1 | May 7, 2010 8:26 PM
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people aren't upset because yoga is a stupid religion...they're upset because we're talking about a tax on excercise as opposed to a tax on junk food and soda and unhealthy activities. why should the healthy literally carry the weight of the lazy?