Tanning tax angers American salon owners

Guardian ^ | 12/23/09 | Ed Pilkington

[RedDogzRule]

In a last-minute change to the Senate bill that was agreed on Friday, a 10% tax was introduced into the legislation on all indoor tanning sessions as a way of reducing the cost of extending healthcare to many of the medically uninsured. Democratic organisers expect the levy to bring in almost $3bn over 10 years.

[Kickass Conservative]

They'll start taxing Coppertone and Hawaiian Tropic Sun Tan lotion next.

[dcrider182]

Don’t forget Seattle

[turducken]

disparate impact! This tax clearly penalizes the pasty Euro-American and favors our more dark complected brethren.

[Boardwalk]

0bama’s plan is for the honkey to get skin cancer and be deselected out of the collective.

[pingman]

I smell an opportunity: bootleg tanning clubs for strippers!

[Overtaxed Patriot]

This is the part of the bill that angers Boehner the most.

[Overtaxed Patriot]

and he said our taxes wouldn’t go up one dime, period... he did say that right? Any chance he gets asked about it?

Correct. He said one DIME.

[prairiebreeze]

He isn’t a black guy. He’s a mulatto.

[MilspecRob]

He isn’t a black guy. He’s a mulatto.

Oh really what ever happened to the "one single drop" criteria?

[sanjoaquinvalley]

After viewing these pictures is it possible that his birth certificate says caucasian?

[micmac]

This is a racist tax on people of Northern European descent who have enough money for a tanning salon. They need to do a similar tax on nail salons that welfare mothers frequent.

[brianr10]

For a second I thought it was Long Dong Silver. (Sorry)

[txhurl]

If you were to photoshop ANY white guys’ head onto 0, NOBODY would deem him black.

[American72]

OK, I am ROTFLMAO about that comment!!!

[AmericaUnite]

As I was shutting off my sons radio. He had it on Z100. I heard them talking about this tax. Then they said it was a white persons’ tax. Hadn’t thought about that.

[prairiebreeze]

Not sure what you are talking about. Zeroman’s mother is white. His dad is black or arab or....whatever he was.

[Denson]

I own just a tanning salon, and this tax will surely hurt. Michigan is just starting to climb out of the recession, and now we have to deal with this.