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10 percent tax would raise $2.7 billion over 10 years
Published Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009 | 11:22 a.m.
Updated Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009 | 1:48 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Move over Botox tax.
The latest proposal to help pay for health care reform will hit tanning salons – or, more accurately, those who bronze themselves indoors rather than under the sun.
In the final version of the Senate health care bill released on Saturday, patrons of tanning salons will be hit with a 10 percent tax on services, raising $2.7 billion over 10 years to help pay for health care reform.
The tanning tax replaces a proposed 5 percent tax on plastic surgery providers, dubbed the BoTax, which was eliminated after opposition from the plastic surgery industry, which had been fighting the measure.
The nip-and-tuck tax would be only on elective, not reconstructive, plastic surgeries, and would raise $5.8 billion over a decade.
CORRECTION: This story has been corrected to reflect that the plastic surgery providers tax has been eliminated from the bill. | (December 19, 2009)
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EVERYTHING they consider medical is going to be taxed. All the way down to TAMPAX.
Tax, tax, tax -- spend, spend, spend -- the crime that never ends, ends, ends.
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You have got to be kidding me....these are the morons who said Bush was stupid! BTW REbelRon...They won't stop at tampax, next will be band-aids.
They will not generate as much revenue as they estimate for the simple fact that alot of people will no longer go to a tanning salon.....
You are so right 'makeendsmeet' this gov't is constantly chasing that ever elusive dollar. They tax one item and we buy the other or just do without, leaving everyone with nothing. It's comical the gov't think tanks must constantly be thinking "How can we squeeze more money of our citizens without them noticing?" Ah, ha got it tanning beds! Which only a small portion of the population can afford or has the need and time for. Why not tax the gyms while we are at it?
Please join the liberal chant immortalized in the Beatles song, Taxman!
Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
Don't ask me what I want it for
If you don't want to pay some more
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
And you're working for no one but me.
Tanning Salons will begin to go out of business,watch and see.....
Coming soon to the town you live in: "The Air Tax". To collect on the air you breathe.
You think I'm joking. There is is study (paid for by the taxpayers), looking into this right now.
Spend spend spend, as Bush/Cheney did recklessly for 8 years (6 of which having total control of Capitol Hill). No wonder we're in such a mess now!
Bush and Cheney are out of office. Didn't you hear the news? The reckless spending of the past 11 months was all on BHO's watch.
The power to tax is the power to destroy. The Femocrats are hellbent on turning our great country into a Third World garbage dump with Idi Amin Obama as Emperor.
I doubt people will stop going. 10% is not very much for people who regularly tan. And if tanning salons go out of business it will have a lot more to due with the overall economy than the tax. But since they are happening at the same time, feel free to use it as the catalyst to support whatever opinions you have about the government and taxes.
Where are the jobs?
TAX TAX TAX let the revolution begin.
There are taxes on payroll, personal property, pensions, severance, Social Security, corporation, stock transfer, tobacco, tonnage, transportation, utilities, accumulated earnings, alcoholic beverages, amusements, apparel, business, capital gains, consumption, corporate income, dividends, employment, estate, excise, franchises, fuel, furnishings, gas, sales, gift, gross receipts, health care, income, inheritance, land, license, life insurance, luxuries, motor oil, motor vehicle, occupation, operators license, and the list of taxes can go on and on.
Now add on to that anything that can remotely be connected to medical.
I also understand that they will tax me if I have good insurance or ARREST me if I don't have insurance.
Yeah, we are headed in the right direction.
That"s all the government knows how to do is tax people. I don"t think they could run anything without a tax on it.
To all those morons that voted for Obama: YOU PAY ALL THOSE NEW TAXES YOU LOSERS!
This isn't government--This welcome to United/Divided STATE of NEVADA! "Welcome all who have any money left and are foolish enough to be misled that their was ever Real work here..Bring your money so we can steal it anyway we can..You don't have to do or say anything..We'll send out our corrupt politicians to take and tax any pleasure you ever got to get in life for your lower than min wage job..And if that doesn't work, We'll have our police illegally incarcerate you,destroy your records, so you can pay our fines,and that's only if they don't get a chance to use you as a puching bag first!...But Hey, thanks for playing...". On a personal level, I have been so made sick of how our local community is treated by our so called local government, I EMBARASSED TO BE AMERICAN, LET ALONE ADMIT I LIVE HERE! Tanning Salons, next will be soda and potatoe chips, fastfood,--LETS MAKE THE ALREADY POOR--BROKE! KILL SOME MORE SMALL BUSINESS NEVADA, THAT's BRILLIANT!
thanks, liberals.
Hey, I'm not condoning excessive taxes, but were you also complaining when the Republicans were heavily engaged in borrow and spend? When did you think we were going to be paying that back? And did that not seriously indebt us to China? Again, where were your complaints? Or why do you think that was such a superior alternative?
Tanning salons are one of the stupidest, most wasteful inventions of the last century. If they get taxed out of business....no real loss.
Nail salons are a close second. Whatever happened to people buying a $4 bottle of coppertone and a $3 bottle of nail polish?
The latest yuppie fad is massage salons. Of course, I'm all for seeing these businesses separate stupid people from their money, more power to you, just don't expect me as a customer.
In my next life I would like to come back as a pigeon and crap all over politicians for what they did.
legalize drugs and prostitution and tax the hell out of them; it wont slow anybody down!
OMG what am I going to do now without a tanning booth in Vegas! Maybe, sit outside?
I think a flying cow would work not either....You need a huge Bull full of BS....maybe that will cover them ALL.Dem or Repub....I don't care.There's enough BS to go around to target EVERYONE. I hate ALL this grand standing on all sides it's sickening.The problem is these so called United states are far from it and they will never be one...never.
Genius - tax the tanning booths that should bring in billions from the illegals and Negros
Tanning salons are one of the stupidest, most wasteful inventions of the last century. If they get taxed out of business....no real loss.
Nail salons are a close second. Whatever happened to people buying a $4 bottle of coppertone and a $3 bottle of nail polish?
The latest yuppie fad is massage salons. Of course, I'm all for seeing these businesses separate stupid people from their money, more power to you, just don't expect me as a customer.
LOLOLOL Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but this is THE MOST IDIOTIC AND MORONIC one yet!!
Bakersfield - you gotta be a guy!!! With ugly toenails with fungus, a hairy back and a beer belly that would make Santa look thin.
Being the owner and operator of a tanning salon in North Carolina.....this really sucks! I thought he was all about helping small businesses?? Obama is such a narcissist! Oh, that's right, he doesn't know anything about tanning salons! He wouldn't know how therapeutic it was for MANY people, now would he? Stay out in the sun all day without sunscreen and tell me how it affects you! It will blister you! Will he tax God? What happened to our constitutional rights? You know, 'For the people and by the people'? What happened to having a choice in the decisions that we make? I am very angry about this because our out of control government is always looking to pass the buck because of the debt they have dug this country into and we are having to pay for it! Not to mention having to give free healthcare to those who aren't even US citizens! Our government is a bunch of self satisfying a-holes! And you can bet your bottom dollar that I didn't vote them into office! I voted for the other parties!! Bush may have not done a wonderful job, but, he was dealt a blow by the terriorist who decided to blow us up, and having to clean up Clinton's crap! But, can anyone tell me one good thing that Obama has done???? I didn't think so, because...........he has done NOTHING!!!
Tanning booths need to be taxed due to the use of the electric power to tan w/o lines. Join a nudest colony for tanning w/o lines.