Tanning Tax

[IceBergSLiM]

you were being sarcastic about being a poor tax right?

 

[Platypus]

I thought the tanning tax was called melanoma

 

[D1gger]

Oooh Nooosss! Who will think of Snooki???? What will all the white trash Jersey Girls do if they can't afford their tanning bed time? Next up will be a tax for spray on tans.

On a more serious note, as O & A said "Isn't this a racist tax?" How many people of colour use a tanning bed? So this must be a tax only for white people.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

im going tanning today. gotta get a base before my trip to the carribean. I am not worried about the 10%. I'll gladly pay up.

 

[Queasy]

Don't worry there are plenty of other taxes and regulation in the hcr which are worse than this.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Don't worry there are plenty of other taxes and regulation in the hcr which are worse than this.

cite them.

 

[PepePeru]

Considering that using an indoor tanning booth is a luxury.

If you're so poor that this extra 10% stops you from your "right" to getting an indoor tan, cry me a fucking river. Make up for it somewhere else in your budget if this is so important to you.

If this were a 10% tax on an essential item it would garner more sympathy for me.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

lol hilarious



oh noes teh boobies!

please do.
fake boobies are the suck.

 

[Queasy]

cite them.

Medical-device maker Medtronic "warned that new taxes on its products could force it to lay off a thousand workers."

Farm-equipment manufacturer John Deere "said it expects its expenses to rise by around $150 million on an after-tax basis, mainly in the second quarter, as a result of the legislation."

Verizon "told employees in an email Tuesday that Verizon's costs will go up in the near term, pinpointing a tax-subsidy reduction for retiree health benefits."

Heavy-equipment manufacturer Caterpillar "said that its first-quarter earnings will be hit with a $100 million after-tax charge under tax law changes attached to the new health care reform legislation."

AK Steele Holding Corp., "the third largest U.S. steelmaker by sales, said it will record a non-cash charge of about $31 million resulting from the health-care overhaul signed into law by President Barack Obama. The charge will be recorded in the first quarter of 2010."

Valero Energy "will take a $15 million to $20 million charge to second-quarter earnings for the same reason."

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Medical-device maker Medtronic "warned that new taxes on its products could force it to lay off a thousand workers."

Farm-equipment manufacturer John Deere "said it expects its expenses to rise by around $150 million on an after-tax basis, mainly in the second quarter, as a result of the legislation."

Verizon "told employees in an email Tuesday that Verizon's costs will go up in the near term, pinpointing a tax-subsidy reduction for retiree health benefits."

Heavy-equipment manufacturer Caterpillar "said that its first-quarter earnings will be hit with a $100 million after-tax charge under tax law changes attached to the new health care reform legislation."

AK Steele Holding Corp., "the third largest U.S. steelmaker by sales, said it will record a non-cash charge of about $31 million resulting from the health-care overhaul signed into law by President Barack Obama. The charge will be recorded in the first quarter of 2010."

Valero Energy "will take a $15 million to $20 million charge to second-quarter earnings for the same reason."

Nice.

 

[thepd7]

The b00bies are safe... this time! Someone DID think of the b00bies.

whew good

you were being sarcastic about being a poor tax right?

she's right that rich people who tan buy a tanning bed but I'm not so sure it's a poor tax.

please do.
fake boobies are the suck.

lies. They look beautiful

 

[x-alki]

I'd call it a stupidity tax for several reasons, one being the sun is free.

 

[ZOOYUKA]

Once again we are taxing the poor...The rich have a tanning bed in their house. : /

It looks more like a racist tax targeted at the white man.

 

[surfsatwerk]

I'd call it a stupidity tax for several reasons, one being the sun is free.

Some of us don't get to see the sun during winter. Or rainy springs... or rainy overcast fall seasons. If I didn't tan during the winter my normally sunny disposition would turn foul.

 

[lord_emperor]

I'd call it a stupidity tax for several reasons, one being the sun is free.

This.

Also whoever convinced people to buy sunlight is a genius.

 

[Queasy]

Also whoever convinced people to buy sunlight is a genius.

Thomas Edison?

 

[moshquerade]

This.

Also whoever convinced people to buy sunlight is a genius.

same guy who invented bottled water!

Brilliant!

 

[Fingolfin269]

cite them.

Decreasing FSA cap from $5k/yr to $2.5k/yr is a tax... albeit indirect. It will still ultimately cause more of my money to go to the government.

 

[IGBT]

your obama is going to tax medical devices too i.e. wheel chairs and crutches and others.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Considering that using an indoor tanning booth is a luxury.

If you're so poor that this extra 10% stops you from your "right" to getting an indoor tan, cry me a fucking river. Make up for it somewhere else in your budget if this is so important to you.

If this were a 10% tax on an essential item it would garner more sympathy for me.

That isn't the point. Using this logic, let's just put a flat 10% tax on anything that isn't food, shelter, or clothing related.

 

[dbk]

My friend jokingly suggested that this tax is prejudicial because it target people with lighter skin tones...

 

[yh125d]

Hard for me to be against this. People who habitually go to tanning beds are dumb as a box of rocks

 

[Train]

That isn't the point. Using this logic, let's just put a flat 10% tax on anything that isn't food, shelter, or clothing related.

uhh, this is already the case, it's called a sales tax. 6.5% ~ avg depending on what city & state you are in.

Specific items in which the tax goes up (yachts, leather jackets, expensive jewelry, the definition of these items vary by city & state) is usually referred to as a luxury tax.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Hard for me to be against this. People who habitually go to tanning beds are dumb as a box of rocks

It's not about whether you think it's smart or not. You don't tax stuff just because you don't think it's a good idea. That allows the government to simultaneously fill its own coffers and exercise a degree of control over the "free" people of the U.S. that it didn't have before. I don't think that's EVER good. I know there's precedent, but that doesn't make it ok.

 

[Fingolfin269]

uhh, this is already the case, it's called a sales tax. 6.5% ~ avg depending on what city & state you are in.

Specific items in which the tax goes up (yachts, leather jackets, expensive jewelry, the definition of these items vary by city & state) is usually referred to as a luxury tax.

You're right at the state level. I'm talking about the federal level and I was also talking about taxing EVERYTHING that isn't food, shelter, clothing. Because obviously anything beyond the basic necessities in life should be heavily taxed due to it being luxurious...