"Discriminates against white women."
Yes, yes it does.
Posted on 06/06/2010 10:14:18 AM PDT by jern
In the eyes of Waverly Woods, a tax on indoor tanning discriminates against her in three ways:
She's white.
She's female.
And she's a small-business owner.
"They want to brainwash everyone into thinking tanning is the new arsenic," said Woods, who owns tanning salons in Norfolk and Virginia Beach.
Starting July 1, indoor tanning salons must charge their customers a 10 percent tax on sessions involving ultraviolet rays to comply with the health care law passed in March.
Legislators who support the tax view it as discriminatory, too - but from their perspective, it penalizes people for an unhealthy habit.
The idea is to reduce health care costs by cutting the number of skin cancer cases. Indoor tanning before age 35 has been associated with a 75 percent increase in the risk of the deadliest form of skin cancer, melanoma. That's according to a review of medical literature by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, which categorizes indoor tanning as carcinogenic.
(Excerpt) Read more at hamptonroads.com ...
and the irony is that a lot of them white women voted for Obama. Welcome to hope and change...dingbats
No it discriminates against caucasian women with leathery, wrinkled, pockmarked skin.
.........Divide & Conquer.........
Cash only purchases (discounted, natch)........If I could buy stock in the black market, I would go all in.
Crazy tax burdens drive the underground economy - the real reason for all the new IRS agents.
Then some smarta$$ will just start levying power usage against the tanning salons.....
Plenty of sun here in the Norfolk area. No need for a tanning booth.
But, but, Obama PROMISED that there would be no new taxes on families making less than 250,000....
Lol....
How is this even Constitutional?
Seems like a precursor to a VAT - if they can tax something that clearly lies outside Federal jurisdiction, they can tax anything.
I think the logic is, it’s a sin tax like cigarettes & alcohol. Next will be fast food or anything deemed to be unhealthy.
Put the tax on watermelon and fried chicken and call it even.
Congress has the authority to tax cigarettes and alcohol that are transported across state lines.
But tanning salons?? I just don’t see what gives them the right. This isn’t just a new tax - it’s a power grab.
yes. that is their intention. tax anything and everything.
a service oriented business that does not cross state lines... how does the fed believe it has jurisdiction?
because they want it. and who’s going to stop them? if 2.5m people standing on the steps of congress screaming doesn’t deter them, do you think any amount of discussion or whining will? hell no.
and if you think the fact that it’s unConstitutional would matter to these people, you are sadly mistaken.
and if you think some cute voting will change things... ROTFLMAO ... they stuffed the boxes in 17 states last time... and were caught by the FBI... at which point 0bama discontinued any investigations once he took office.
cheat big enough, wide enough, and you will be assured to have the power to stop any and all investigations. that’s the 0bama way.
It’s a tax on whitey. Purely racist.
"Discriminates against white women."
Yes, yes it does.
Not that it's the government's place to use the tax code to micromanage behavior, of course. :)
It’s a tax on white women who want to look brown. There was a time when white women dressed in long sleeves, wore gloves, large hats, and umbrellas to avoid being blemished by the sun.
LOL!
Down with tan lines!
This picture provides some insteresting photoshop possibilities and caption possibilities related to the tan-line-tax that Obama wanted to see.
Solution: Charge $29.95 for each bottle of [insert favorite brand here] Drinking Water. With the purchase of each bottle, 1 hour of tanning is awarded free. Price of Tanning? $0.00. 10% of this cost goes happily to the government... I LOVE MATHEMATICS! If its based on company earnings, find a cooperative water dealer!
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