Tanning salons will go out of business

[christagious]

The 'Unintended Consequence' of this are so perverse its not even funny. Almost Everyone in the North American hemisphere suffers from large Vitamin D deficiencies.

Using the money in the health care bill for 'tanning salon' subsidies would do far more to solve the health care crises than anything else.

I think the health lobby knows the power of Vitamin D. It is the most efficient way is to get vitamin D is not by any type of supplement but UV exposure on your skin.

The health benefits of vitamin D are damn near miraculous.

I've read a lot about the benefits of Vit D and even using tanning to get it, but I'm still sketchy about the cancer risk, that's why I will not get into a tanning bed. Know of any scientists or doctors who dispute the cancer link with tanning beds?

 

[Matt Collins]

Funny thing... I talked to a friend of mine who tans and she is happy about the tax it because she wants to stop tanning and a higher price will be her deterrent to doing so. She also said her salon sent out an e-mail asking her to write her congressman. We know things are bad if tanning salons are begging their patrons to petition their representatives.

 

[MelissaWV]

This is obviously a racist provision. Darker-skinned people don't need tanning beds; this whole thing is just another way of getting money out of pale white folks!!!

Anyways, this will have a consequence but a savvy business will get around it. Someone earlier was right on the nose when they said "don't pay it," but you don't have to get in trouble with the IRS to do so:

Jane Doe's Salon & Spa:

This week only! Free tanning session with every mani/pedi!

Next week, Half-price tanning session with haircut.

This could go on and on. The tax is a percentage tax. Please realize that tanning is one of the cheaper things a full-service salon is going to offer. It's easy enough to reduce the price of tanning, or "throw it in for free" and spread the cost of the tax throughout all the other services. No one really cares if you charge $1 for a haircut.

If businesses play this intelligently, this will (like most everything else) hurt only specialized businesses.

 

[BlackTerrel]

Since when in the hell did Congerss get the power to put a direct tax on people who tan?!?!

We've had cigarette taxes for how long now?

I imagine this is under the guise of health...

 

[Rael]

I'm just going to offer the owner of my tanning salon cash under the table.

 

[Matt Collins]

I'm just going to offer the owner of my tanning salon cash under the table.

You will be a tanning rebel and will be found guilty of the horrible offense of allowing people to tan without a permit, or without collecting the tanning tax. This is not even to mention that you won't have the proper license because you will not be inspected by the government health department. And if it's under the table then you obviously won't have an occupational license to be in this line of work, nor will you be in compliance with your localities' zoning plan. You sir are a menace to society and will be someone who should pay dearly for your transgressions against the state! What is wrong with you? Why are you such an immoral individual? Please THINK OF THE CHILDREN or the terrorists have already won.

 

[FunkBuddha]

I've never been to a tanning bed in my life but this makes me want to go and then pay them in silver.

 

[healthnut4freedom]

Vitamin D is therapeutic

The 'Unintended Consequence' of this are so perverse its not even funny. Almost Everyone in the North American hemisphere suffers from large Vitamin D deficiencies.

Using the money in the health care bill for 'tanning salon' subsidies would do far more to solve the health care crises than anything else.

I think the health lobby knows the power of Vitamin D. It is the most efficient way is to get vitamin D is not by any type of supplement but UV exposure on your skin.

The health benefits of vitamin D are damn near miraculous.

You are correct! It is a total crock. Vitamin D is therapeutic and ten minutes a week at a tanning salon helps a lot of people. It not only gets you through the winter but sufferers of conditions like psoriasis get tremendous relief.
This is just another bogus way to get rid of something that is truly healing.

 

[FindLiberty]

Who can tax the sunrise (Who can tax the sun shine...)? << i.e., tanning salons
Who can tax the trees (...And vitamin D?) ?

The government Can...
YouTube - Tim Hawkins - The Government Can

 

[RSLudlum]

Exactly. A family friend owns a tanning salon. They are already on the verge of going out of business (like a lot of businesses). This new tax might push them over the edge.

Two months ago, I helped my sister-in-law close down her tanning salon - never realized how damn heavy those things were. She sent all the leased beds back and has kept 2 for personal use in her house. So, with this tax, I guess there could probably be a glut of used beds going on the market. More used beds = less newly manufacted beds = more unemployed tanning bed assemblers.

 

[RonPaulCentral]

I.R.S. might not like that.

That is why each Tanning Salon needs to become a "meditation center" with use of Free Tanning beds during each paid visit.

There are many ways around this. Our government is truly stupid.

 

[gb13]

I've read a lot about the benefits of Vit D and even using tanning to get it, but I'm still sketchy about the cancer risk, that's why I will not get into a tanning bed. Know of any scientists or doctors who dispute the cancer link with tanning beds?

Vitamin D Council

Dr. Joseph Mercola (Just search for Vitamin D)

The very small skin cancer risk using the right kind of bed properly, is far outweighed by the benefits of vitamin D.

 

[TinCanToNA]

Two months ago, I helped my sister-in-law close down her tanning salon - never realized how damn heavy those things were. She sent all the leased beds back and has kept 2 for personal use in her house. So, with this tax, I guess there could probably be a glut of used beds going on the market. More used beds = less newly manufacted beds = more unemployed tanning bed assemblers.

No more thinking about the consequences of the actions of Congress. It will only lead to perpetual depression

 

[Matt Collins]

http://reason.com/blog/2010/06/17/new-at-reason-greg-beato-on-th

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

Why this is an incredibly important precedent! As tanning booths are a artificial substitute for sun rays, that means we can tax sun rays - by legal precedent, of course... Just think of it - go out during the day - we can tax you. That is a source of a natural tan, of course, as well as a source of energy to produce vitamin D - which the body needs. We can tax yards and especially gardens and farms for their use of our precious sun rays. Discontinuing service might be a bit difficult, however so we may experience high levels of theft.

In the next phase, we will tax oxygen, on the legal pretext that our sun rays produced plants that converted CO2 into O2 - producing that O2 that is OUR PROPERTY!

Overall, I think the Corporations will be very pleased.

-t

 

[DrRP08]

Global warming will make them obsolete.

haha

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

I.R.S. might not like that.

Ca$H is King...

I think Tanning Salons (UV tanning beds) are getting the bad PR from the health industry related to UV rays that has dropped business along with this Depression we're in.

Just open a "BODY PAINTING SHOP" spray on tans, now you circumvent the tax laws.


Only problem is I hope they improved the spray dye/tint... when I met the Governator a few years ago, I thought his skin looked Orange.

YouTube - Sunblock 5000

 

[Ethek]

Most people in North America are Vitamin D deficient in the winter months. Vitamin D may be the single most important immune system component. Anything from Cancer to 'Swine-flu' and even Heart Disease. Way to go Gov for taking the most efficient way for many to supplement out of reach.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

Only problem is I hope they improved the spray dye/tint... when I met the Governator a few years ago, I thought his skin looked Orange.

There are vitamins that will do that if taken in overage. Spacing on shich right now. Eating too many carrots will do the same thing. It's a melatonin thing. Ironically, hair die goes orange with exposure to sunlight.

Commercial source that does not disclose what's in it so they can sell at a high price.

http://www.healthychoicenaturals.com/p-13-TANAMINS.aspx

-t

 

[Elwar]

The only way I am willing to even acknowledge race is by the differences in melanin in one's skin.

Clearly, this tax is illegal under the Civil Rights Act and should be fought by anyone who's melanin levels require that they go to a tanning salon. It's basically a race tax.