“New health care law imposes tanning tax to help fund indigent care.” As the new healthcare law has recently passed it added a new tanning tax. The new tax will enable more revenue for the uninsured Americans. Tanning salons feel as if the feds are picking on the little guy because they just don’t have the money for this new tax. Originally the tanning tax was not part of the health care bill (Obama Plan) and instead it was a tax on cosmetic surgery, but dermatologists persuaded the senators to substitute the tanning tax for the cosmetic surgery tax.
I am completely against the tanning salon tax. I am not a regular tanner and I have a free tanning bed at my apartment complex but I believe this tax is unfair. They are targeting the little guys, why substitute a tanning tax for a cosmetic surgery tax, if anything they should target cosmetic surgery. Since the goal for taxes are to create revenue for uninsured Americans they would receive more money through the taxation of cosmetic surgery because it occurs often and cost much more than a visit at a local tanning salon.
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