New Mexico Considers Taxing Video Games, TV to Fund Health Care

The Leave No Child Inside Bill being proposed in the New Mexico state legislature sounds like a good idea to start with. It probably does not go far enough. Promotions to the next academic grade in all schools probably need to be made to include meeting certain physical fitness and wellness standards for all children that are medically and developmentally capable of meeting the standards required. The program could be put into place immediately for grades 1-3 and expanded a new grade level each new year to have all public, private and home-schooled students in the program in nine years. Similar programs could eventually be extended to college age students and employers who have a minimum number of employees and/or also receive or are eligible for government funds and contracts. For adults, tax incentives would be the lure.

We will see what happens, but the time is probably still not right for enactment of this kind of lifestyle altering legislation.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080125230108.k05u9plm&show_article=1

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