Posted on 07/04/2010 6:09:43 AM PDT by ResistorSister
As a hospital nurse in Summit County, Tammy Mathia says she wants the federal government to help many of her patients afford health insurance.
But as the owner of tanning salons in Canton and Alliance, Mathia strenuously objects to Congress’ levying a 10 percent tax on her customers to help pay for it.
“I’m not against contributing to health care, because I’m a nurse,” she said. “I’m 100 percent toward socialized health care. I’m not for targeting one business.”
The federal 10 percent tanning tax took effect nationwide Thursday. It’s the first of several taxes that will be levied as a result of Congress’ passage in March of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which will provide hundreds of billions of dollars in federal subsidies over the next decade to make health insurance more affordable for those with low to moderate incomes.
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I would quit going just to give less money to Obama.
I actively post to a Facebook page for one of our local tv stations. This tax has caused an uproar like you wouldn’t believe. Of course, my comment didn’t help matters. I told all the whiners, you voted for this. How did they think this “free” health care was going to be paid for?
They thought it was FREE! :-)
Some people who don’t use tanning salons aren’t even phased by this. My comment is, do you think it’s going to stop at tanning salons. Sooner or later, something you love or something you use will be taxed, or the taxes already on those things will go through the roof.
You believed that national health care would be paid for only by the rich. Suckers!
I would too, screaminshunshine. But faithful tanners are hooked, it won’t be easy for them to stop even if they have to pay extra taxes.
I like the way Rush puts it, a tax on white people.
“i’m 100% for socialized healthy care” ROFL. Idiots like this.
All these supporters of socialized health care are for it as long as they don’t have to pay for it. The 10% is not enough, we need to tax her 80% and she better not complain because we need the money to fund free health care, otherwise we’ll attack her for being greedy
Any health-risk related activity or food will be taxed.
We will probably be taxed for every extra pound we weigh over our ideal weight too.
Priceless. I wonder how many of the customers of her tanning salons are willing to pay for her services but expect the government to finance their medical insurance needs.
A black woman posted the comment “We’ve always been penalized for our color” I guess she thinks it’s about time white people are penalized too.
Good question!!!
100% for socialized medicine?
She meant to say “100% for somebody else paying for it”.
Eat it witch.
So here is the first tax imposed on something because it raises the cost of healthcare.
It is not irrelevant that the risk from tanning is unsubstantiated by science.
Therefore, we can expect taxes imposed on all sorts of activities that are arbitrarily deemed to raise the cost of healthcare.
There will be no diminution of customers because of the tax. Tanning customers are vain. Vanity has no upper price limit
Hey, you know that big yellow thing that rises in the east and sets in the west? On sunny days go outside in shorts (or if you have a high fence, in your birthday suit) whenever you get a chance between, say 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. and lie down. Flip over after 15-20 minutes and cook a another 15-20 minutes on the other side. And Obummer and the dems haven’t figured out a way to tax it yet! (I’m sure they’re working on it, however.) Of course, this only works in Ohio between the months of May and September or so.
Says it in a nutshell.
And government gets to decide what is bad for you. Before long, you won’t have any choices to make — government will do it all.
While watching commercials about assorted medications that are available for every ailment under the sun we are always warned of the potential health risk of taking the medications.
With that in mind the government might decide to tax all medication because they have the potential to raise the cost of health care.
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