It’s getting to be election time, and here in Minnesota there is a political ad on TV talking about food taxes.
The freedom to force everybody to pay for your excesses is not one that I remember being mentioned in the Constitution.
The other solution, of course, is to remove skin cancer and all related conditions caused by such from being covered by health care, forcing people to pay for them completely out of pocket. While this would get absurdly expensive, we would all have our freedoms, and everybody can just pretend that nobody’s lives are getting ruined by cancer.
Or make tanning beds, having cancer, being obese, and smoking all capital offenses. Since you guys are in super serious mode, I will inform you that this is sarcasm.
This is much the same as social security. It doesn’t work if only people who paid into it get their checks, it only works if everybody pays into it. Now I would be mildly upset if someone was stealing away social security money from everyone else, and so is the government. They call it “scamming”, and it is a crime. I don’t think anyone complains when someone goes to jail for it.
And how much damn liberty are we talking about forfeiting here? Paying an extra few dollars on top of the already huge costs of a tanning bed presents will put nobody under any economic strain.
Really, people complain an incredible amount about how this new health care plan or that new tax is going to DESTROY THE GODDAMN WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN. Believe it or not, life goes on and these changes BARELY MAKE A DIFFERENCE in your lives. We could be in England being monitored by CCTV cameras everywhere, and life would be pretty much the same, despite arguments to the contrary by some people.
The freedom to force everybody to pay for your excesses is not one that I remember being mentioned in the Constitution.
The other solution, of course, is to remove skin cancer and all related conditions caused by such from being covered by health care, forcing people to pay for them completely out of pocket. While this would get absurdly expensive, we would all have our freedoms, and everybody can just pretend that nobody’s lives are getting ruined by cancer.
Or make tanning beds, having cancer, being obese, and smoking all capital offenses. Since you guys are in super serious mode, I will inform you that this is sarcasm.
This is much the same as social security. It doesn’t work if only people who paid into it get their checks, it only works if everybody pays into it. Now I would be mildly upset if someone was stealing away social security money from everyone else, and so is the government. They call it “scamming”, and it is a crime. I don’t think anyone complains when someone goes to jail for it.
And how much damn liberty are we talking about forfeiting here? Paying an extra few dollars on top of the already huge costs of a tanning bed presents will put nobody under any economic strain.
Really, people complain an incredible amount about how this new health care plan or that new tax is going to DESTROY THE GODDAMN WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN. Believe it or not, life goes on and these changes BARELY MAKE A DIFFERENCE in your lives. We could be in England being monitored by CCTV cameras everywhere, and life would be pretty much the same, despite arguments to the contrary by some people.
[quote]eic wrote:
[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]
Southern Hemisphere = closer to the hole in the ozone.
[quote]thefederalist wrote:
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. [/quote]
Coercive Tax, yes. Corrective Tax…no.
lol no one has a problem with the tax on tanning beds yet people are getting angry about it?
people need to stop being so idealogical and deal with reality…
[quote]carbiduis wrote:
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)[/quote]
Pardon me for being misinformed, I dont live in the US. Does this red meat tax apply to provessed meat or “factory meat” or does it apply also to grass fed beef also? I mean surely farmers who rear their livestock naturally without the use of hormones, antibiotics or any funding of sorts from big corporations can decide on the price of their livestock on the LOCAL market? Or do they have to pay more every time a calf is born from the cow?