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Tanning Tax Burns Small Businesses (No More Changing Your Skin Color)
ATR ^ | 6/22/10 | Aaron Marcus

Posted on 06/22/2010 9:29:52 AM PDT by Andrea19

The first of Obamacare’s 21 new tax hikes will go into effect next week – July 1. At 10 percent, the tax on indoor tanning is already putting a business, paperwork, and employment burden on mom and pop tanning salons, where business owners have been forced to jack up prices. For many, this will result in fewer customers and profits and more layoffs and store closures...

Read more: http://www.atr.org/tanning-tax-burns-small-businesses-a5114#ixzz0rbFPeJHr

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Hobbies; Society
KEYWORDS: democrats; economy; energy; obama; racisttax; tax4whites
Say what you will about the Jersey Shore, but tanning can be taxed, what's next haircuts?

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1 posted on 06/22/2010 9:29:53 AM PDT by Andrea19
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To: Andrea19
The way that obama specifically targeted "Tanning Salons" - even way back in the campaign - is a pretty good indicator of the weight he puts on "skin color".

He is the biggest racist in America today...bar none.
2 posted on 06/22/2010 9:35:07 AM PDT by FrankR (Standing against tyranny must start somewhere, or the future belongs to the tyrants.)
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To: Andrea19

Who would have ever thought that lawmakers would tax white people for being, well, errrrr, white/caucasian....go figure. =.=


3 posted on 06/22/2010 9:35:27 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Andrea19

This is rich. My mother’s haidresser is a strong “O” supporter...and she has a tanning bed in her salon....he..he


4 posted on 06/22/2010 9:39:25 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What luck for rulers that men do not think." Adolph Hitler)
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To: FrankR

Imagine the uproar if a tax had been imposed on Jheri Curl?


5 posted on 06/22/2010 9:53:01 AM PDT by Paradox (Socialism - trickle up poverty.)
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To: Andrea19

If tanning salons and nail salons disappeared, you could shut down half of the strip malls with them. This should do wonders for commercial real estate.


6 posted on 06/22/2010 10:07:07 AM PDT by Gen-X-Dad
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To: Andrea19

"we opened this here tanning salon in nineteen-hundred and twenty two. we've lived through the depression, the war, and 4 long years of Jimothy Carter, but by gar... we're feeling the pressure now!"
7 posted on 06/22/2010 10:18:12 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: Andrea19

So if I were a tanning business, I would include on the form an line for “Obama Health Care tax”.


8 posted on 06/22/2010 10:20:33 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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