So beacuse of the HealthCare (HC) scam that is now in place, a 10% tanning tax is now a reality. Why? I dont know, maybe cause it causes cancer and that will put a strain on the nationalized HC. I dont tan but this is ridiculous, i dont want to have to re-adjust the picture on my TV everytime i watch jersey shore. Where will these new taxes stop?
who is deciding on them? All it takes is one government funded study to prove that red meat increases the risk of cancer and suddenly we’ll have to fork out 18% to Mr.Government everytime we feel like having a Sirloin for dinnner. Then what’ll happen is demand will go down and it will be limited in availability. They are slowly on their way to manipulating/influencing/controlling our ways of life. What do you think? Am I jsut crazy and paranoid? It seems like a realistic trail of logic to me.
And by the way, if you are a dem/liberal im fine with that, just dont mention glenn beck, cause i dont watch him and i dont even get foxnews.
REMAIN RESPECTFUL AND NO NAME CALLING WHILE DISCUSSING POLITICS! Just valid points in your arguments will do…(atleast i can say i tried)
Tanning taxes are great for me. Means my all natural island tan will be all the more attractive to the ladies when the other guys get pale.
I think they should do to processed foods what they did to cigarettes… put an end to commercials. If the food contains a certain number of processed ingredients they shouldn’t be allowed to put it on the television. That would solve a lot more problems than anything else they’ve done.
[quote]Enders Drift wrote:
Tanning taxes are great for me. Means my all natural island tan will be all the more attractive to the ladies when the other guys get pale.
I think they should do to processed foods what they did to cigarettes… put an end to commercials. If the food contains a certain number of processed ingredients they shouldn’t be allowed to put it on the television. That would solve a lot more problems than anything else they’ve done.[/quote]
I think your paranoia is justified. The soaring national debt and health care that passed with zero input from the voters is cause for concern. I’m fairly sure us lower-middle class types aren’t even a voice in the crowd, so I’ll just be content to deadlift. If full frontal lobotomies are 100% covered, all the better.
Honestly, this is what you get for voting liberal. I love how all the libs got their vaginas in a twist about the Patriot Act and how Bush was trampling our civil rights. But there’s nary a peep about a law that FORCES you to buy healthcare insurance and will begin taxing routine goods and services that the government deems unfavorable.
Oh and that liberal-controlled House, Senate, and White House haven’t done shit about the Patriot Act, which remains good law to this day. Fuck you.
My perception is that the agri-lobby would bitch slap a meat tax because there would be significant public outrage and they are big business. The tanning lobby is slightly less powerful.
[quote]CITI913 wrote:
Here are a few videos on skin cancer.
Although I do not have cancer, I have many sunspots on my skin now from my 20’s.
Abuse your body and eventually it will catch up with you.
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Thanks for the videos, CITI. I literally just got back from the tanning place an hour ago. I don’t think I’ll be going back. I didn’t realize how much more intense it was compared to the sun. I think I’m going to need to make an appointment to see a dermatologist and make sure I haven’t done anything really damaging.
Incidentally, any idea why all those videos featured Australia?
[quote]eic wrote:
Honestly, this is what you get for voting liberal. I love how all the libs got their vaginas in a twist about the Patriot Act and how Bush was trampling our civil rights. But there’s nary a peep about a law that FORCES you to buy healthcare insurance and will begin taxing routine goods and services that the government deems unfavorable.
Oh and that liberal-controlled House, Senate, and White House haven’t done shit about the Patriot Act, which remains good law to this day. Fuck you. [/quote]
We had to put up with 8 years of the shithead YOU voted into office, now man up and deal with 4 years of ours.
In Economics there is something called a “corrective tax.” It is applied to internalize negative externalities. In this case, fake tanning results in negative externalities from skin cancer/skin disease related issues. This corrective tax will reduce the equilibrium quantity to the socially optimal level of fake tanning consumption, which in my opinion should be zero.
As far as meat is concerned, get the fuck off my beef, Uncle Sam.
One is from the states but the sun is intense in those parts. I lived in Florida for a period of time and the intensity of the sun is night and day vs the midwest.
Its funny but occasionally I’ll notice pictures of women that are older and you can tell they wore lowercut shirts where the skin has sun damage.
Carbiduis, I like the way you handled your beef (no pun intended) with tanning and politics. I guess for me Dream Tan and pro tan will be the ONLY way to go. I’ll be darned if I’m gonna pay a tax on tanning (and yes, I do tan in prep for a show). But, like it was said, tax my red meat and we’re gonna have a little bit of a prob. I’ll start eating Dems/Libs for food! How ya like me now!!!
