Health Savings Accounts: a tax-sheltered way to pay for quackery

[Major Nikon]

23. The whole idea behind tax breaks is to encourage things that benefit society

While tax breaks are handed out like candy, it's important to remember that one person's tax break simply increases the tax burden on everyone else. So make no mistake, for all intents and purposes, tax breaks are no different that subsidizing an activity. The reality is that our government provides these back door subsidies to all sorts of things that are a detriment, rather than a burden to society. This often takes the form of all sorts of pseudoscience like climate change denial and religion that promotes disinformation and ignorance.

The standard for any tax break should be proof of a net benefit to society that goes beyond the value of the benefit they receive, and those standards should be reevaluated periodically to insure compliance.