Posted on 06/06/2010 10:14:18 AM PDT by jern
In the eyes of Waverly Woods, a tax on indoor tanning discriminates against her in three ways:
She's white.
She's female.
And she's a small-business owner.
"They want to brainwash everyone into thinking tanning is the new arsenic," said Woods, who owns tanning salons in Norfolk and Virginia Beach.
Starting July 1, indoor tanning salons must charge their customers a 10 percent tax on sessions involving ultraviolet rays to comply with the health care law passed in March.
Legislators who support the tax view it as discriminatory, too - but from their perspective, it penalizes people for an unhealthy habit.
The idea is to reduce health care costs by cutting the number of skin cancer cases. Indoor tanning before age 35 has been associated with a 75 percent increase in the risk of the deadliest form of skin cancer, melanoma. That's according to a review of medical literature by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, which categorizes indoor tanning as carcinogenic.
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Why do you think they didn’t hit the nail salons? There are certainly MORE of them than tanning salons.
This is just another Nanny State tax. New, there will be taxes on anything and everything the nanny state deems unhealthy; TV sets (promotes sedentary lifestyle), computers (ditto), candy (rots teeth), soft drinks (too caloric), movie theaters (sedentary, again). The possible list is endless. In fact, about the only thing that won’t be taxed might be broccoli and cauliflower; and maybe parsnips get a pass.
Darn tootin’.
It’s the Cracker Tax.
They'll make you pay the tax on the imputed cost of the tanning. There aint no such thing as a free tan...oh wait a minute - what about the sun. That's it - a solar-powered tanning salon. We can offset the tax with the energy credit...
We're so smart - we should open a chain of secret tanning salons. We'll call the franchise TAN-EASY....
she has a point, if congress passed a tax on dreadlocks the NAACP would be up in arms about discrimination.
Yeah they should tax 40 oz beer.....LOL.
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