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It is along the lines of a cigarette tax or any other vice tax.
In the future, people who tan will likely accrue tanning-related medical costs.
It makes sense that they begin to help defray those costs now.
Oh I agree, as long as that tax revenue is going to the health care system directly. Is it possible to confirm this though?
Beyond that, I have it on good authority that Obama tans, or at least has in the past.
This is entirely anecdotal, but a friend of mine used to work at this very posh health spa (as an interesting side note, she quit because she got her pinky finger severed in a door there, but that's entirely irrelevant to the story).
Anyway: several years ago, before he was president, even before he won the democratic convention, Obama came here to speak.
My friend was instructed to come in very early in the morning and open the spa, because Obama wanted to work out in privacy.
So she did, and he came in with a couple of other guys, worked out, and tanned.
She got to talk to him briefly, just small talk, and said he was very laid back and charming, very "normal".
But at any rate, he did tan while he was there.
So, clearly, the tax is not entirely aimed at whites.
* edit: just wanted to make it clear that I'm not referring to any sort of adult-oriented business here, or implying that Obama ever has or ever would patronize one. This was a legitimate health spa, with exercise and tanning facilities.
On what grounds is it racist?
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It targets a specific portion of the population based on skin color.......
What say you?......
I say yes, it is by its nature discriminatory......
What say you?......
I say yes, it is by its nature discriminatory......
A tax can not be racist.
Is it indirectly discriminatory, yea.
Put a tax on Magic Shave and see if it can't be racist...:rofl
It's as racist as an extra FET on Cadillac Eldorados, fried porkchops or pickled pig lips would be. If you don't think that would be racist, then I guess this tax isn't racist.
Taxes are considered racist when they effect more blacks than anyone else. Since this tax doesn't effect blacks, at all, then you'll have a hard time finding anyone with the balls to call it racist.
If that is not a racist and stupid statement, I don't know what is.
Oh bull****. :roll:
It's a luxury tax, race had nothing to do with it.
****ing morons. :roll:
It's not a luxury tax. It's a, "we wanna control your lifestyle because we're going to pick up the tab", tax. If the government is worried that a person's lifestyle will cost them more money in medical care expenses, then let's not work towards single payer healthcare. But, we know it ain't about that. Don't we? It's about, "if we can get away with this, we can get away with the other **** we wanna do".
Your freedom is being taken away from you, while you sit back and try to look like a cool non-partisan. I'll see ya in the camp. Maybe we can get assigned to the same barracks and go on the same work details and talk more about it.
It's not a luxury tax. It's a, "we wanna control your lifestyle because we're going to pick up the tab", tax. If the government is worried that a person's lifestyle will cost them more money in medical care expenses, then let's not work towards single payer healthcare. But, we know it ain't about that. Don't we? It's about, "if we can get away with this, we can get away with the other **** we wanna do".
Your freedom is being taken away from you, while you sit back and try to look like a cool non-partisan. I'll see ya in the camp. Maybe we can get assigned to the same barracks and go on the same work details and talk more about it.
Agree on the taxes - this tanning stuff is a "luxury", a foolish one at that.On what grounds is it racist?
Taxing tanning beds in my mind is just like increased taxes on cigarettes... these things are not necessities, and they can damage your health.
I'm assuming tanning beds are already taxed, but I'm not sure an increase in taxing will do any good. The only thing it will do is bring in more tax revenue, and that doesn't go over well in my mind.Logically, this will ease the budget deficit.
I'd be more in favor of tanning salons being required to have their customers read warnings on the dangers of tanning beds, just like they add warnings on cigarettes. Might not do a lot of good, but at least we'd be ensuring everyone knows the dangers... and people have a right to know these dangers. From there they can make up their own minds.
It is along the lines of a cigarette tax or any other vice tax.
In the future, people who tan will likely accrue tanning-related medical costs.
It makes sense that they begin to help defray those costs now.
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