Social Workout

We're fighting over all sorts of health and fitness related tax schemes. There's the anti-tanning tax. There's the much-debated soda tax. There's the yoga tax. But those are all tax schemes that take. Our friends to the north have instituted a tax scheme that gives. The "Children's Fitness Tax Credit," instituted in 2007, gives people up to a $500 tax credit to cover fees for physical-activity programs for their kids. Right now the Canadian politicians are in slight dustup about whether the tax credit is disproportionately benefitting wealthy families. But blah blah, they're giving people money to help them shape up! Wow. Maybe this could help save American's from the impending Obesity Apocalypse? If not a federal fitness tax credit, maybe just one for Mississippi... Your thoughts?