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Title: Tanning Tax Slipped into Health Bill
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ozarksfirst.com
URL Source: http://ozarksfirst.com/content/fulltext/?cid=218312
Published: Dec 22, 2009
Author: unattributed
Post Date: 2009-12-22 15:23:34 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Comments: 6
Tanning salon operators are seeing red over a last-minute tax on their business in the health care reform bill. It's a ten percent tax on tanning bed salons paid for by consumers. The so-called " tanning bed tax" was added to the bill by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. The tanning industry has been under increasing scrutiny from the Food And Drug Administration over the dangers of ultraviolet rays in tanning beds. "This is a small tanning industry lobby and its Vitamin D, sunshinevitamin.org , tanningtruths.com and I bet they didn't have a chance to respond to this," believes Sharon Smith, owner of Tanner's Cove. The tanning tax replaced a five percent tax on elective cosmetic surgeries and treatments like Botox in the health care reform bill. Pharmaceutical giant Allergan, which makes Botox, led a successful lobbying campaign to get it removed from the bill.
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#1. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#0)
Not only are they cretins, they're insane cretins.
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
I have heard discussion as of late about the benefits of Tanning Beds in promoting the bodies production of Vitamin "D" and stimulating the production of other body produced chemicals resulting from exposure to sun light. It is said to be of benefit to people in particular who live in northern climes and who do not get sufficient exposure to direct sun light for at least half the year. I haven't seen any studies on it, but the medical industry is loathe to study competitor's products that might provide low side effect benefits that they can't control and earn a monopoly profit from.
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
The people I have seen who are habitual tanning bed users look older than they are. It seems like a waste of money to me. You are right in that botox has a lot more pull. Allergan, Inc., who makes botox for the US market, is a multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical company. The tanning bed folks never stood a chance.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 The purpose of the legal system is to protect the elites from the wrath of those they plunder.- Elliott Jackalope "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
Ahhhh, but vanity is IN the eyes of the beholder until it's YOUR OX that get's gored...
Here's the thing about Tanning beds. They use flourescent IR light to give you the fake bake. Guess what that does? It strips you of your Vitamin D. It doesn't stimulate it, it actually strips the vitamin D from you, thus creating a deficit. What is Vitamin D good for? Protecting people against Cancer. It also helps them lose weight too. Here's the kicker about tanning beds, they are great at giving people cancer. Not to mention making you look like a leather handbag when you're 40. People are stupid to tan. Seriously. You have to be an absolute moron to fake bake.
Better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not.
#2. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#0)
#3. To: ghostdogtxn (#2)
#4. To: ghostdogtxn (#2)
The botox industry has a lot more pull than the tanning bed folks, it seems. Since both "treatments" are bullshit for the obscenely vain, I don't really care much how this one comes out (other than being generally against all stupid taxes)
#5. To: ghostdogtxn (#2)
I don't really care much how this one comes out (other than being generally against all stupid taxes)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
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