Gym Shorts: Anytime Investment, MO Tax Break

Missouri lawmakers are considering a measure to alleviate sales taxes for fitness establishments. Currently, the state charges sales tax for all places of recreation and entertainment, including fitness centers. We want to encourage people to be healthy and have active lifestyles. And I don't think that we should be taxing that, and I don't think the original intent of the tax was to tax that," said Rep. Eric Burlison, who is sponsoring the legislation.   
[The Kansas City Star]

A man who was on a treadmill at a North Carolina Anytime Fitness suffered a heart attack and flew off his machine. The incident likely would have been fatal if not for a woman and her two daughters, all of whom have medical experience. The man was working out alone in the cardio room when the three women walked in just as the incident occurred. “He was unresponsive, wasn’t breathing and had no pulse... We opened the airway and started basic life support for him.”  [ABC News]

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