Nobody likes to pay new taxes. Sure, some argue that taxes can be good: they get people to cut down on socially unacceptable activities: cigarette-smoking, junk food consumption, successful businessmen’s economic activity, etc. But the D.C. City Council is targeting a sector unaccustomed to such attention: fitness. Under Chairman Phil Mendelson’s (D) budget proposal, D.C. gyms will start paying the 5.75% sales tax on January 1, 2015. Mendelson argues that the money taken from taxing gyms and other businesses will allow D.C. to lower the income tax for low and […]

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