Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Posted on 07/06/2010 7:35:23 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
The nation's indoor tanning industry was unfairly targeted when Congress imposed a 10 percent tax on its services as a way to help pay for the federal health-care reform bill, several Tulsa-area tanning salon owners say.
The tax went into effect Thursday and is expected to raise $2.7 billion toward a $940 billion health-care overhaul.
At first, the tax was aimed at the cosmetic surgery industry. But it was transformed at the last minute into what is known as the "tanning tax" in an effort to prevent skin cancer.
Tabetha Folds, who owns Second Sun Tanning Salon, 4715 E. 11th St., said the last-minute decision to tax tanning salons was "a random choice" because her industry wouldn't put up as big a fight as other groups. She pointed out that fast-food restaurants pose a more immediate risk to health.
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I believe Stephen Colbert did a joke about this right after the idea came up.
Of course to balance it out we could have a Jerri Curl tax.
But 0 was supposed to be the first post-racial president... /s
I don’t think the John Boehners of the world were going to vote for him anyway.
If Obama really wanted to alienate middle-class Americans, he’d put a tax on fast-food establishments. Start with Happy Meals. He’d never get another vote from the mothers of pre-schoolers.
This is greatness
Turn that crap back on 0dumbo
Ooh! I’m pigmentally challenged! Help, help, I’m being repressed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76WQzVJ434
Put a 10% tax on Rap Music it damages the Brain.
I am curious as to what percentage of idiots who use these facilities voted for 0bama. If it is a very high number like I am guessing, then what can I say? GOOD!
But then something like that would nuke K Street which exists primarily for the buying and selling of lines in the tax code.
Where the hell is the TAX on “Soul Glow”? You’ll never see it as long as Barry is in office!
Fact is, all selective taxes are discriminatory. Some, like the gasoline tax that is (supposedly) used for roads, are perhaps acceptable. Others, like liquor taxes, this tax, and the so-called “progressive” income tax are discriminatory. They are examples of the tyranny of the majority.
The majority aren’t rich, therefore, the rich should be taxed. The majority don’t use the tanning booth - therefore, the tanning salons should be taxed. The majority don’t drink in great quantity - therefore, the drinkers should be taxed.
“No tax for you, no tax for me; we’ll tax that man behind the tree.”
Another example of a brain-dead voter asking the gov't to tax someone else, like the wealthy.
When confronted with the reality that we are all targets for liberal taxation, they still do not get it.
LOL, that one always gets me.
Oh someone please file a discrimination suit. The headlines would be popcorn worthy.
“The majority don’t drink in great quantity..” Define “great quantity.”
Does tanning the skin cause skin damage or not? Especially to white women (women’s skin being thinner than men’s).
Sources I have seen say that the damaging rays from tanning booths are 2-3 times stronger than those from the sun.
Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Ironic.
Surreal.
Humorous.
Ironic.
Surreal.
Humorous.
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