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Washington's Joke War On Tanning Salons Has Gone Too Far
Townhall.com ^ | March 21, 2016 | Nicole Neily

Posted on 03/21/2016 10:57:21 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: DesertRhino

Did she work at IHOP?


21 posted on 03/21/2016 12:17:57 PM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: Kaslin

It wasn’t a Boehner tax. Only white folks pay for tans.


22 posted on 03/21/2016 12:20:36 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Kaslin
"..because the president's chief antagonist in Washington was perpetually tan.

Boehner? Obamas chief antagonist?! Surely this author jests.

23 posted on 03/21/2016 12:22:45 PM PDT by uncitizen (there's no "conservative country" without a country)
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To: uncitizen

Boehner had a natural tan. He didn’t need a tanning salon


24 posted on 03/21/2016 12:32:15 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

Gov did such a great job convincing everyone of the necessity of tobacco excise taxes, the gov naturally will branch out into other “unhealthy” lifestyles for taxation.


25 posted on 03/21/2016 12:37:39 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: sheik yerbouty

“How about a tax on Afrosheen?”

Yes, considering the majority of this product’s users rarely if ever pay income tax.

BTW, Sheik Yerbouti was a great record from FZ but you knew that.


26 posted on 03/21/2016 12:38:57 PM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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To: Kaslin

That tax is racist!


27 posted on 03/21/2016 1:05:34 PM PDT by RU88 (Bow to no man)
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To: Darteaus94025

Exactly. The Cracker Tax. Can’t believe that this hasn’t been fought under Equal Protection. Guaratnteed they’d fight if there was an extra tax on Afro Sheen, Kool cigs and Hennessey.


28 posted on 03/21/2016 1:58:05 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Tenacious 1

No, I’m sad to say, I needn’t worry. ;o(


29 posted on 03/21/2016 4:09:39 PM PDT by beelzepug (2 Timothy 2:23 Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments...")
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To: Kaslin

Is this the same gummint that says CHOICE is good if you want to kill an unborn American citizen?


30 posted on 03/21/2016 5:00:12 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: AFreeBird
A burn isn't the only concern. I've had a couple patients need whittling where that one sock should have been, but wasn't, during long habits of tanning. Gals are also risking some skin their mom's mostly didn't risk, in their high tech avoidance of tan lines, which has also led to some unwanted whittling. And tanning constantly what was, at most, tanned seasonally in earlier generations has led to a LOT more whittling and has prematurely aged said skin at least proportionately to its increased duration of being tan.

Skin cancer, collectively, already is more than half of all cancer in the US. It can go higher. Aussies hold the record. At their worst, melanoma (4-5% of US skin cancers), was as common in Aussies as breast cancer is in US women. We shouldn't be chasing that record. Nor do we want, at our high school reunions, to look as old as our surviving teachers.

31 posted on 03/21/2016 6:07:34 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Changed)
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