[Donadoni1809]

This tax is racist. Only whitey goes to tanning salons. What if they put in a tax that only hit dark-skinned people???

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...wing-skin.html

Tanning Salon Patrons Face 10% Tax for Glowing Skin

July 01, 2010, 3:20 PM EDT
By Ashley Lutz

July 1 (Bloomberg) -- The price of looking good increases by 10 percent today when a tax on indoor tanning created by the U.S. health-care reform bill takes effect.

The tax is expected to raise $2.7 billion over 10 years, according to a March 10 estimate by the Joint Committee on Taxation, and will help pay for the estimated $940 billion overhaul of health care.

Small-business owners will be hurt by the tax, said Joseph Levy, vice president of International Smart Tan Network, whose Jackson, Michigan-based group represents more than 3,000 members. Women own 67 percent of the more than 20,000 tanning salons in the U.S., he said.

“It’s an expensive change at a time when small businesses don’t have the money,” Levy said. The average monthly cost of an unlimited tanning package is likely to rise to $55 from $50, he said.

Douglas Rassmussen, who owns Absolute Tan in Omaha, Nebraska, said his typical customer is a woman in her forties who attends the salon two to three times a week.

“My customers think the tax is ridiculous,” Rassmussen said. “I think it’s going to scare people away.”

At Beach Bum Tanning & Airbrush Salon in New York, the most popular tanning package for unlimited access to the beds is $109.90 a month, up from $99 because of the tax, said Jah Muhammad, a sales associate.

[Beauseaccerce]

Of all the ridiculous things you have posted over the years, this may take the cake. First, tanning salons are not used exclusively by white people. (You may not be aware of this, living in your white bubble, but non-Caucasians come in a whole host of shades.) Second, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that tanning salons are disproportionately used by females, so you really should be screaming about sexism.

[furious1]

Of all the ridiculous things you have posted over the years, this may take the cake. First, tanning salons are not used exclusively by white people. (You may not be aware of this, living in your white bubble, but non-Caucasians come in a whole host of shades.) Second, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that tanning salons are disproportionately used by females, so you really should be screaming about sexism.

He's still operating under the impression that women don't leave the kitchen. Cut him some slack.


I say, any tax that makes people pay more money to give themselves skin cancer is great. I have a wildly far-fetched hope that this would make some people stop tanning altogether, but that's not likely. lol